02-21-2018 06:34 AM
Any tips on creating 360 degree photos using Android smartphone?
02-21-2018 06:45 AM
Use STREET VIEW app best for 360 panoramas jere is a link for you 👇👇
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7012050?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
02-24-2018 10:21 AM
Yes, You can create 360 Photo Using Android Phone. but your Phone have to support Google Street View App and Gyroscope Sensor.
Please follow below instruction:
Create 360 photos with a phone:
Please follow This link for more information.
Hope it helps you.
Thank You 🙂
Happy Mapping & Keep Contributing 🙂
02-24-2018 10:37 AM
Main tip - try to keep in exactly same place (in all 3 dimensions) the lens of your device during all rotations, especially during taking a nadir shots.
First try to "close" a main circle panorama around your body, follow the dots.
Be aware of moving people/vehicles and your legs (during nadir shots).
Try some test photos in some quiet open spaces without people.
Regards,
Jacek
02-24-2018 10:46 AM
There are so many apps to capture 360 photos, I prefer the google street-view app and it is the better one. Below link explains how to use street-view. Below video is a demo of street-view app
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7012050?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxWK5JTykY
02-25-2018 06:35 PM
@SafalMuhammed
Creating spherical-panoramas using a smartphone is definitely an acquired skill, however I see a lot of photographers here in the group who have become VERY proficient at creating quality spheres with a smartphone and the Google Street View app.
The MAIN still is learning to keep the phone lens close to the nodal point. the most easy and inexpensive tool for that is to push a stick into the ground.. OR use a string or your headphones as a virtual post and hold the camera lens close to that point.
I made a short video for you explaining how it works, check it out here from YouTube https://youtu.be/-9Qq0d4TrwY
Hope this helps
Bo
02-26-2018 08:57 AM
Hello to everyone,
Thanks all for the great tips and especially @BoLorentzen and @JacekNK!
@BoLorentzen, I saw your video, and so much of it made sense about the stitching. The panos I try to make with my phone are horrendous. They are so ugly that Google Maps does not want to accept them! I will try the headphones hack and get back to this topic with the outcome!
Best regards,
Georges
02-26-2018 11:36 AM - edited 02-26-2018 11:36 AM
LOL @GeorgesHR I did not think it was possible to get a spherical shot rejected 🙂
The closer you are to nodal point, the better the stitch become,
to show you how good a smartphone can do a sphere. This was shot in the yard a while back with the smartphone using a simple 3D printed smartphone multi-level bracket https://kuula.co/post/7lHX4
PS. Sorry for the poor audio in that video, I was laughing at myself, I shoot professionally video, but could not find a single charged camera in the office, and ended up with a Panasonic action camera with crud microphones..