PHOTOSPHERE 360 PANORAMA ARCHIVE

You may see a Google+ Pages archive option.

You can create a separate archive of your photos in Google Takeout > Google Photos (Google+ uploads appear to be in date albums)

The archive does not include photos or images you posted to Google+.

Click the link to open the post on Google+. The earliest modified file should be your first post.(Creating the archive may take a while if you have a lot of posts) Deselect everything in the Takeout list except Google+ Stream.

Once you have switched, you will see the Page's Profile image at top right.

Optional: to switch to a Google+ Page click your profile photo at top right, and select the Google+ Page's Brand Account from the list.

The news is devastating for users who have years of photographs - be they photo spheres or otherwise - uploaded on the service.įortunately, user +Brian Slesinsky posted this helpful tutorial for creating a backup archive of your posts. While Google+ may not have been the world's most active social network, it was home to niche groups of 360 photographers and aficionados that loved to share their works including the Photo Sphere community (16,224 members), the Panoramic Photographers on Google community (4,093 members) and even the Google Trusted Photographers community (371 members). Earlier this week, following a major security data breach, Google announced that the consumer version of Google+ would be shut down by the end of August 2019. Now after seven years, Google is finally calling it quits. In fact, it was Google's fourth attempt at social networking that was launched in 2011 after the failure of Google Buzz (2010), Google Friend Connect (2008), and Orkut (2004).īut even Google+ was also doomed to fail. By 2014, the New York Times likened the service to a ghost town, citing Google's claims of '540 million monthly active users but almost half do not visit the social network.'

PHOTOSPHERE 360 PANORAMA ANDROID

This technology wasn't actually anything new Apple had already accomplished this feat with the release of QuickTime VR in 1994.īut what was cool about photo spheres and what made them unique to Android devices at the time is that the images could easily be shared via the Web by uploading them to Google+ or publishing them to Google Maps for the world to see. Photo Spheres that react to the movement of a smartphone when viewed provide a bit of entertainment, while also being quite informative and useful to preview a location.Back in 2012 Android phones offered the capability to shoot 'photo spheres,' Google's proprietary term for 360 interactive panoramic photos. AR directions have been around for a few years and might soon be coming to the windshields of cars. Information overlays can reveal useful details about points of interest, identify products, and show ingredient lists. The relative size and appearance of an item can be judged in AR before being purchased or carried into a room. This is often used for fun but there are very practical applications as well.

PHOTOSPHERE 360 PANORAMA FREE

While this feature is built into many smartphones, a free app is needed to create and view Photo Spheres when using an iPhone.Īpple and Google are both accelerating the pace of their AR development, making it seem as if virtual objects can be placed in the real world. These immersive, 360-degree images virtually transport the viewer to any location in the world in an augmented reality window provided by an iPhone, iPad, or Android device. An iPhone can capture Photo Spheres even though this image type is generally thought of as an Android feature.

Photosphere 360 panorama