[Update: Showing in Always On Display too] Pixel 3 live wallpapers are available to download and they're beautiful



We're exactly two weeks out from the October 9th Google event and unless the crazy conspiracy theories end up being true, there might not be too many surprises coming our way. Images of the Pixel 3 phones have leaked left, right, and center, and now we're being treated to the live wallpapers that will ship with them.
Thanks to MySmartPrice and Ishan Agarwal, it's possible to download 28 live wallpapers, some of which you might recognize from previous leaks. There's a mixture of aerial landscapes, ocean watercolor scenes, space views, and artistic swirls or bubbles. Various wallpapers react to different stimuli such as touch, movement, notifications, or even the music you're playing. Watching birds fly past mountains or a motorboat navigating the sea is pretty incredible on your homescreen.
  
Two other interesting options show stylised silhouettes of New York and San Francisco skylines with the light changing in real time from day to night. There's also a mysterious Pixie in some wallpapers that "magically appears when your phone is at rest and goes on a journey when you unlock your phone" — whatever that means.
  
You might expect these wallpapers to only work on Pixel phones, but they should be compatible with pretty much any recent device (or at least the ones running Pie) (Edit: Definitely needs Pie!) since the libraries are included this time around — I'm using a Sony Xperia XZ3, for example, and they work just fine.
  
On this XZ3 they're mixed in with Sony's live wallpapers.
You can get them on your phone by downloading the Drive folder from the source link files from MEGA (Edit: the Drive folder has reached its download limit). Install the included APK (at your own risk) and make sure you also have the Google Wallpapers app (below), then you should be good to go. On a Pixel, there will be new sections for each type of wall, on others you may just see a Live Wallpapers section with all of them.
As we've previously seen rumored, some of these live wallpapers also work with the Always On Display mode on current Pixel phones. Check out this tweet from @BryceYTS showing a couple of examples.
Furthermore, that mysterious Pixie mentioned in the description of some wallpapers seems to have something to do with AOD too, apparently showing up on the screen when it's locked. If anyone can capture that and share an image/video, that would be great.
I knew you'd come through — thanks to Ben Hen and Rohit Rodrigues for capturing the Pixie in the videos below. Isn't it cute...
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