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Software Used:

1. Insta360 Studio to free capture and export as PRORES.
2. Adobe Premiere for editing and color grading.
3. Topaz Labs Video Enhance AI for upscaling the 1080 HD footage to 4K.

The selfie stick I use is the Telesin Carbon Fiber (New) model that's roughly 3 meters (118"). https://www.amazon.com/TELESIN-Extendable-Lengths-Lightweight-Monopod/dp/B08PF7DQ7B?th=1

I really wish they had just made a waterproof One X rather than the One R. Such a better form factor.

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Is a One X on Amazon, but it is pricy:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/insta360-FlowState-Stabilisation-Separately-microSDXC/dp/B07GXBYYWN/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=insta360+one+x&qid=1591139454&sr=8-3

I use special app from Google: "Street View". (this, I think: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.street&hl=en ). I don't feel any ignorance :)

App asks you to shoot a lot of pictures turning your phone around you to capture entire sphere. It uses hyroscope/accelecometer to understand in what direction you camera looking at and also it uses some sort of "keypoints" in image data. After you took ~20...40 pictures around, you press "done" button and app performs calculations (i think it uses some sort of SIFT/SURF - algorithms) to stitch all your images into sphere. This process eating a lot of CPU and battery. Result depends on many factors: how you move camera (you must rotate camera with rotation axis going through your camera, not your body), amount of light (algorithm need crisp images to find as many "keypoints" as possible). 50% of results are bad, my phone has some troubles with hyroscope and this has affect on result sometimes. Sometimes i turn around 360 degrees, but app think that I turned 500 degrees or so :)

So the main subject you want to google is SIFT algorithm, I think.

> https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LW4EHCW/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&aaxitk=f0e57f5092145dd5938a1a1106975d12&hsa_cr_id=5919219600001&pd_rd_plhdr=t&pd_rd_r=8a7fb0c3-a895-44ef-8136-01666c1723f1&pd_rd_w=3zqNb&pd_rd_w...

Does your head get in the way of the stitching?

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LW4EHCW/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&aaxitk=f0e57f5092145dd5938a1a1106975d12&hsa_cr_id=5919219600001&pd_rd_plhdr=t&pd_rd_r=8a7fb0c3-a895-44ef-8136-01666c1723f1&pd_rd_w=3zqNb&pd_rd_w...

Drifting away a little from my experience here, but I think Google Streetview needs a sequence of still images which you can upload with the Streetview app.
Best to do a bit more research on this - it probably requires some other info such as GPS stamps as well.
This page has Google's recommended devices. https://www.google.com/streetview/contacts-tools/
It lists the insta360 One, rather than the X2...and the GoPro Fusion rather than the Max.

Sure! Here's the older one (roughly 11" long and uses the twist to lock mechanism, as shown in the description): https://www.amazon.com/Insta360-Selfie-Stick-Screw-Thread/dp/B07HMW9JSC/.

This one is the newer one that is roughly 9" and is friction lock only: https://www.amazon.com/insta360-Insta360-Selfie-Stick/dp/B07Y5ZH5SM/.

Hope that helps! It's confusing because they look the same, both are well rated (but have differing numbers of reviews), and are the same price. It's only when you read it very carefully that you see the different length and different instructions for use.

Hey guys,

I built tiiny.host to simplify hosting and discovered a user uploading 360 tours using mazipano.net. I thought it was a really cool tool so I made a short video about it to teach others.

I'm really new to this space but really interested in it. If you have any questions, hit me up!

This official streetview site lists some software that they suggest to use to publish streetview.

https://www.google.com/streetview/contacts-tools/products/

Select publishing tools from the drop-down list.

You can use pretty much any consumer camera to do this. The LG360 Cam works, Samsung 360 (2016 or 2017), Ricoh Theta S, etc... Take a look at the google street view website for suggested cameras : https://www.google.com/streetview/publish/ As well as the image acceptance and policies : https://www.google.com/streetview/privacy/

The free Hugin does a perfectly good job of rotating equirectangular photos.

Add image, go to the move/drag tab and drag things around with left/right mouse button. Return to the first tab ( Assistant ) and hit create panorama.

It /is/ meant for stitching together a panorama from multiple images so the workflow is a bit weird, but it does the thing.

In principle it's possible but I think there are a few reasons why it isn't done:

• It's more difficult to do with different kind of cameras than one kind (as you have)
• Commercially the value of such software would be limited, as not many have such setups lying around
• People who are able to write such a piece of software as a hobby don't have such devices around
• Synchronizing image capture times very precisely would be difficult to get working in a robust manner; more so for video
• Even in still imagery you want to synchronize dynamically varying parameters such as ISO level etc, so it's not trivial
• Windows phones are somewhat obsolete :).

That being said, a panorama stitching application such as Hugin can apparently make 360 VR images. If you are able to time-synchronize videos, I guess it could be used to stitch complete videos, though it would take a long time.

Hey, thanks a lot for interest! My email is and I would love to chat more if you can.

in the meantime, here is a link to questionnaire if you dont mind, to help us better understand the initial use case. https://airtable.com/shrwcgeeyNp64wQPl

please feel free to email me, and super excited to have you!!

Ankle weight... genius.

You mean the K-288+MT02 right? https://www.amazon.co.uk/koolehaoda-Multifunctional-Monopod-Desktop-Adapter/dp/B082RBHVRD

I will say I did find a Bushman v2 used for 100 euro, so not much more expensive.... until you add VAT and shipping... then it is almost twice the price.

Is there really any major differences? The one you found even seems to have a more customisable base. I guess it might be built by slightly cheaper materials? Or Bushman is mostly just marketing and style.

I'd say no. I just got his one for $33, not sure why the price is 2x now, and I added a $10 ankle 5lb weight in case. I flipped it around and re-configured it for 360 with a 0 footprint base or tripod flexibility, and it's pretty stable.

https://www.amazon.com/koolehaoda-Multifunctional-Monopod-Desktop-Adapter/dp/B082RBHVRD/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=k-288&qid=1606977502&sr=8-2

New GoPro spherical camera confirmed by Nick Woodman. Amazon also has the GoPro Fusion for $299.

Yes, when you have less light, you can crank up the ISO. But doing this past 400 or 800 also vastly increases the noise level, which will obscure the kind of details you want to see.

Suggestion, from someone with a half century of electronics and photo/video experience: forget 360 video, and equip people with a good LED light with a diffuser (so you won't get those overexposed bright spots on your video that ALSO make it impossible to see details). They can shoot normal video and you will be able to see everything properly.

I picked this one almost at random from Amazon based on the rating and the diffuser, but anything similar should work. In darker environments, lower power on white walls will actually work better!

https://www.amazon.com/VILTROX-L116T-3300K-5600K-Temperature-Brightness/dp/B07D8TTFSR/

battery dies before 128gb card is full

theyre 20 buck https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XWZWYVP/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

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5.8k spherical is already horribly low resolution, why u do this