360 Photography
Preface
Feedback Wanted!
1
Technology Overview
1.1
Panoramas vs Photospheres
1.2
File Formats
1.3
Cameras and Apps
1.4
Workflow
2
Equipment
2.1
Cameras
2.1.1
Ricoh Theta series
2.1.2
Gear 360 / Gear 360 (2017)
2.2
Phone & Tablets
2.3
Tripods / Monopods
2.4
Painters Pole
2.5
Helmet Mount
2.6
Accessories
3
Apps
3.1
360 Viewer Apps
3.2
Smartphone camera apps
3.3
360 Camera Manufacturer Apps
3.4
Multi-Camera Apps
3.5
Drone 360 Apps
4
Shooting Tips
4.1
Positioning the Camera
4.2
Lighting
4.3
Collecting Ancillary Data
4.4
Field Kit
5
Editing 360 Photos
5.1
Editing Tasks
5.1.1
Stitching
5.1.2
Editing a Stitched 360 Image
5.2
Software
5.2.1
Stitching
5.2.2
Viewers
5.2.3
Tour Builders
6
Sharing 360 Photos
6.1
Panoramas
6.2
Sharing individual photospheres
6.2.1
Facebook
6.3
Online 360 Tour Platforms
6.3.1
RoundMe.com
6.3.2
Kuula.com
6.3.3
Vizor
6.3.4
Google Tour Builder
6.3.5
Google Tour Creator
6.3.6
Google Expeditions
6.4
Offline Tours
6.4.1
Pano2VR
6.4.2
PTGUI
6.5
Creating Custom Dashboards with HTML
6.5.1
Embedding Panoramas from RoundMe
6.5.2
Panelleum
6.5.3
ArcGIS.com Web Maps and Story Maps
6.6
Data Management
7
Drone 360s
7.1
Why Drone 360 photos?
7.2
How to take a 360 photo with a drone
7.3
Recommended drones
7.4
Drone 360 Apps
7.5
Stitching
7.6
Sharing 360s
8
Glossary
9
Miscellaneous
9.1
References
Appendix
A
Theta SC Step-by-Step
A.1
Camera Diagram
A.2
Taking and Viewing Photos
A.3
Settings
B
Google Street View Step-by-Step
C
Building a Helmet Mount
C.1
Why a Helmet Mount
C.2
Parts
C.2.1
A Helmet
C.2.2
Hardware Pieces
C.3
Assembly
D
Litchi
D.1
Pros and Cons
D.2
Litchi Tips and Tricks
E
Workshop Materials
Apps to Install on Your Phone / Tablet
Slides
Immersive Visualization with 360 Photography
DRAFT
1
Technology Overview
1.1
Panoramas vs Photospheres
1.2
File Formats
EXIF tags
Projections: Double-spherical, equirectangular, and cubic
1.3
Cameras and Apps
1.4
Workflow
take images
stitch
add hotspots
assemble in tour
share
