PHOTOSPHERE 360 PANORAMA ANDROID
PHOTOSPHERE 360 PANORAMA SOFTWARE

The problem with this file is that any image viewer you use must find some special metadata embedded in the file to recognize it as a spherical panorama. The procedure below first uses Photoshop to correctly size the image for 4K video and change the aspect to 16:9. However you created the spherical panorama, the image is in a standard 1:2 aspect flat image format such as TIFF or JPG. The equirectangular mapping puts the zenith of the camera at the top of the frame, and the nadir point at the bottom of the frame. The 360-degree horizontal extent is spread from left to right, with the left and right sides wrapping around, so the raw panorama is distorted, just like a Mercator map of the Earth. If you have a blank area at the top or bottom of your image, then you will have a hole above or below you in the image (as in the Yerkes Observatory example above). This can then be downloaded from your Google Photos library as a correctly proportioned 1:2 equirectangular JPG file.

PHOTOSPHERE 360 PANORAMA ANDROID

You can also create this file with a cellphone camera. On Android phones, you can produce a photosphere (Google's name for a spherical panorama).

PHOTOSPHERE 360 PANORAMA SOFTWARE

To begin, we should have an equirectangular image from a spherical panorama camera or the output of a stitching software package such as PTGUI. So How Do We Do This for Our Own Shots? Background On a phone or tablet equipped with accelerometers, you can browse the scene in virtual reality (VR) by simply pointing your device in a different direction. On a Chromebook, you may have to hold the shift key down when using the mouse scroll wheel to keep the image window in place. This allows you to use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in for a closer look on a system with less than a 4K display. Try expanding to full-screen, and setting the resolution to the maximum 4K resolution (2160s). To give you more time before the video ends, the video can be paused while you take your time browsing the scene. Google also has a cool page explaining 360° images and pointing to some more resources (click here).When you start the panoramic video, at first glance, the spherical panorama video is completely static, but on a computer, if you move your mouse cursor into the frame, it changes to a hand icon, which allows you to click and drag around your viewpoint. Photo Sphere) with HoloBuilder, all you have to do is drag ’n’ drop the image file into our web editor. For uploading and sharing a 360° image (a.k.a. The final product can then be projected on the inside of a sphere without leaving anything blank - that’s actually how HoloBuilder’s 360° functionality works.

When you take a 360° image with your camera, you capture every single point around you, in every possible viewing direction. If you are not absolutely sure what the differences between a 360° image, a photosphere and a panorama are, please read the following carefully! 360° Images & Photospheres & Photo Spheres … oh my!ģ60° image, photosphere and Photo Sphere are three terms for the same concept. You can use any kind of picture with HoloBuilder but, depending on the type, they have to be inserted differently. What kinds of pictures can I use with HoloBuilder? We’re sorry for the confusion, promise to improve and hence, want to clarify some things in the following. But, we’re sure that some people regularly ask themselves “What the heck do these terms actually mean?”. We at are pretty busy talking about “360° images”, “photospheres”, “Photo Spheres”, “panoramas” and all that fancy stuff. This is what a typical Panorama looks like

Photosphere 360 panorama