Comments on: Video: This is How Google’s New Photo Sphere Camera Works

By: jaxxmjd

jaxxmjd — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:01:00 +0000

iOS 7 introduces: iPhoto Globe. With this incredible, innovative capability, users will now, for the first time, be able to take three dimensional panoramic images of their surroundings.

Which leads us to a major update to the Maps app. Since we’re incapable of implementing a simple mapping app without ridiculous flaws, we’re just going to crowdsource the image data using iPhoto Globe. We’ll only charge users $4.99 a month to provide us with the images!

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:15:00 +0000

the iphone5 just got panoramic picture, and the Gnex had it a year ago, this is about built in camera functions that are dedicated support from Google, which means it’ll be constantly improved upon, which is awesome.

By: Jason Tsujimura

Jason Tsujimura — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:07:00 +0000

Forget Verizon for updates. Root and ROM baby!

By: Chris Robson

Chris Robson — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:43:00 +0000

we have had this on this GS3 it does have some cool uses from time to time.

By: Dave Kochman

Dave Kochman — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:24:00 +0000

Google would be smart to implement crowd-sourced Photo Sphere submissions for Google Maps as a means of adding to their already rich POI data set.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I am not holding my breathe, but it is getting harder to breath these days.

By: Royal2000H

Royal2000H — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:32:00 +0000

I wonder if their experience and technology in developing street view gives them a better sphere outcome than third party apps.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:30:00 +0000

I bet that’s the real impetus behind this move; not that there’s anything wrong with that.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:29:00 +0000

And HDR. And video chat. And . . . well, we could be at this all day.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:56:00 +0000

360 Panorama has been around for a while for those that are looking for another 3rd party app. Works great…outdoors. I wonder if Google figured out a way to do it indoors.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.occipital.panorama

By: cgalyon

cgalyon — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:44:00 +0000

Ok, that’s actually pretty cool. I was worried it would be kind of slipshod or problematic (like panoramic programs often are), but it looks like it does a really good job stitching correctly.

By: redbar0n11

redbar0n11 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:22:00 +0000

Take that cRapple!

By: aaeagle

aaeagle — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:52:00 +0000

One thing I’m excited for is more restaurants and bars and places being able to have “look inside” functionality as a result of this.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:50:00 +0000

This is worthless to me until Nexus devices get a decent built-in camera.

By: Scott Tilney

Scott Tilney — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:46:00 +0000

This has been around forever with camera360