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Facebook 360 Photos — Share an immersive view of your world
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@rrhoover You don't need any special equipment for the 360 photos on Facebook. Any panoramic pic will convert automatically.
@rrhoover Google Street App for iOS and Android both create 360 photospheres. However more time consuming than a one click 360 cam for sure.
@rrhoover If you don't have a 360 camera, I suggest using these apps to create 360 photos:
- iPhone or iPad camera panorama mode
- Samsung Galaxy's panorama mode or surround shot mode (full 360)
- Street View
- Google Camera (Android)
- Cardboard Camera (Android)
- 360 Panorama by Occipital (iOS)
Also, a list of sweet 360 cameras that we support: https://facebook360.fb.com/learn...
@ahuang7 For some reason, the 360 photos and videos don't work in Chrome. I'm running the latest Chrome 51.0.2704.84. Works fine in Safari.
I wish they provided a basic tool somewhere for editing/testing/fixing metadata for equirectangular/panorama pictures. My old photospheres won't upload correctly and any edits I make on the phone will strip the relevant metadata from the photospheres :(
Anyone having issues with panorama photos? Tried uploading one twice and it posts as just a super thin, wide photo.
if it is based on panoramic pics, i guess it s a 360 mono direction right? not all directions
@ourielohayon panoramas are mono direction (tho there's a bit of vertical movement), photo spheres (full 360) you can move in all directions
@ourielohayon no it's a file format that's used to show full 360 photos. Most 360 photo apps and cameras add photo sphere metadata into their photos to specify things like field of view, width, starting position, etc
If I was to be unkind, I'd just say that Facebook is playing catch-up with Google+ again. But given the downward spiral of G+, I can only say that this is a good thing and probably timed better than G+ too.
Love this. Facebook 360 is an important incremental step towards more immersive experiences using VR and AR. Really excited to see companies like Facebook and Snapchat bring VR and AR to consumers.
@jonathanzwhite Same here. We've been using a Theta S since the day it came out and having to link to an external host was a giant pain.
I wish it would work with any pano from Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. But right now it's only mobile phones and specific devices.
The way this works is actually amazing. I wouldn't mind if my whole news feed was filled up with this, though I would spend way too much time on Facebook again if it happened
love this. the experience is immersive but I think consumers still need to get used to it. I'm familiar with it since I worked with @giroptic back in 2014 but those that have never seen 360 photos will take some time to learn how to experience it.
This is really impressive.
It also renders Google Photosphere Images really nicely.
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@ahuang7 check out our app UTeleport that makes it really easy for publishers (https://play.google.com/store/ap...) - we're gonna roll out 360 photosharing to FB really soon, plus we integrated OSC with all the cameras :)
@yl we just rolled out sharing to 95% of the public, update to the latest version of the FB app!
@ahuang7 Amazing ! love it! already got it to work and play :) https://www.facebook.com/photo.p...
The one little feature that might get overlooked but is immensely cool is the little directional icon that moves as you pan around the image, indicating bearing. It's very useful: https://twitter.com/jasonsalas/s...
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