I have a number of 360 degree photos in my library. It would be really nice to be able to view the photos in a 360 viewer. Google photos does this, recognizes it is a 360 photo or video and then lets you see it in 360. Would be great if photostructure had this feature as well.
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Samsung smartphones can also recognize 360 photos, and display them appropriately. It would be a nice feature to see in photostructure. Here is one of my 360 photos, for reference.
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I don’t have a 360 camera yet but am planning to get one, so I’d like to see support for this. 360 video is also becoming more popular so that would be nice as well.
FWIW, I think there are some open source tools that would make implementing this easier. Specifically, I’ve seen Marzipano, but there may be other tools out there as well
Fwiw I found exiftool supports 360 metadata, see more detail about the EXIF and XMP tags in Eric Cheng’s blog, Google’s Photo Sphere XMP Metadata, Facebook’s Editing 360 Photos & Injecting Metadata (from Wayback Machine), TrekView,
@Rodger I guess this forum strips photo metadata. I downloaded your original photo and could see it in 360 at https://360viewer.uk with my computer, but it didn’t work on my Galaxy phone with either the default Gallery app or the 360viewer website. Examining the image with Exiftool revealed it had no metadata. I uploaded it to Exif Fixer Online, let it fix it, confirmed with exiftool that panoramic metadata had been added, and now that file does work normally on my phone.
Here it is in a zip file, so hopefully the forum does not strip the metadata inside the zip
with-pano-metadata.zip (3.1 MB) Edit — yep, I can confirm I can download the zip and the metadata is preserved.