![]() Software like Quicktime VR ( Virtual Reality) has always been a great solution, but one which needs the viewer to install a browser plugin. ( I wonder why so many stitching programmes bite the dust…)Īnyway, this post isn’t about high-resolution stitching software but a solution to a different problem: posting 360° spherical images on the web. I wrote about it in some detail back in 2011, when I was using Hugin for stitching images together, although I switched to the simpler Panoedit software more recently and am sad to see that it is being discontinued. I’ve been a fan of panoramic photos since even before I started taking photos with a digital camera. ![]() If you’re not interested in the technical bit, just click and drag on the photo at the top of this blog post and you’ll get the idea. It is completely un-retouched, hence the somewhat ugly shadow in the lower part of the image. You can also share Photo Spheres in Google Maps and contribute to Street View.The interactive image in this blog post was shot and published near Aeschiried in Switzerland using the new, free Google Photo Sphere app on my iPhone 4S. If you have captured an entire sphere, you’ll also have the option to convert it into a “ Tiny Planet”. While creating a Tiny Planet, you can also apply filters or adjust other settings like zooming, borders, cropping, etc. Photo Sphere images can be shared just like normal camera photos. Once the Photo Sphere image is saved, it can be opened from the standard Gallery app and navigate through the image.Press the Shutter button to render your Photo Sphere (This will take some time).Continue the above process until no other dots appear and the entire scene has been captured.Move the camera to align it with any of the adjacent dots to capture the second photo. Four blue dots appear around the first dot.This is the first piece of the entire sphere. Your phone will automatically capture the first photo. Align the dot with the circle on the center of the screen.Beyond this dot is the first frame of your Photo Sphere. A small blue dot appears in the middle of the screen.Launch the Camera app and tap on the Photo Sphere icon (next to the Panorama icon) to begin Photo Sphere mode.Follow the steps below to create your own Photo Sphere. This feature has been built into the camera app in Android 4.2 devices. There is no need of any extra software.īubbli has been considered as the best alternative to Android’s Photo Sphere on iOS. Bubbli Photo Spheres can be shared and viewed directly on a web browser.Bubbli intensifies the Photo Sphere experience by adding sounds to your bubbles to capture the ambient noise,.So, unlike Android Photo Sphere, you need an active internet connection for creating your photo-bubble. Bubbli uploads photos to their servers for stitching.There are a few advantages of a Bubbli Photo Sphere over an Android Photo Sphere. The end product is a bubble-style photo sphere of your surroundings. Though the recording process is slightly different from regular panoramas, you should be able to grab the technique quite easily. By carefully tilting your camera around a circle while recording images, Bubbli helps you create bubble shaped 360 degree panoramas of your surroundings. IOS users can now capture original Photo Sphere-like 360 Panoramic images thanks to a brand new startup Bubbli.
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