Thursday, November 07, 2019

virtual tours with 360 photos, and panoramas

Thought about creating a virtual tour of the planetarium with the Insta360 Air camera. This camera works reasonably well in good light, but cannot capture in low light as is the case inside the planetarium theatre - severely pixelated with the lights on, and completely dark when trying to capture the live planetarium show.

Saw some tutorials using cupix and google tour creator, then made one with google tour creator,
https://poly.google.com/view/6fr4ibdUbv0

Added the same images (after resizing to 4K) to google street view using the street view app. To change the directions in which the 360 images are pointed, under Edit location, the photo can be rotated by swiping while keeping another finger on the directions (N, NE, E etc.) shown below, to keep the directions steady. A bit fiddly. Positioning was also a bit fiddly, since the zoom level on the positioning map was not sufficient in my case.

Made a couple more panoramas, both using the Panorama feature in the stock camera app on my LG Q6 Android phone and using the street view app. The street view app tries to stitch it into a 360 image, so requires a very large number of photos.
Shot with the Google Street View App, which needs you to align the phone to a shown circle and click repeatedly.

Shot with the Panorama feature of the phone's camera App, which needs you to just wave your phone from left to right or vice versa. 
Also shot with the Panorama feature on the phone camera. A passerby created an artifact, so repeated below. 




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