When the Chrome OS came to market in 2011, most devices that ran it were barebones, low-power PCs that put Google’s most popular online services first and foremost. But Google’s Pixelbook series and high-end offerings from Samsung carved out a premium niche in the Chrome OS market. Uncoincidentally, the rise of pricey Chromebooks coincided with increased requests for new features. There’s good news on that front: A commit in the Chromium Gerrit repository suggests that Google is planning to add recording functionality to the Camera application on Chrome OS devices. The commit indicates that a video recording feature might be coming in a future Chrome OS update. According to the commit, the team is working on implementing video recording using MediaRecorder APIs and enabling HW VEA, which will greatly improve its performance. Source: Chromium Gerrit It is surprising how much Chrome OS, which began more or less as a g...