![]() Photospheres are awesome 360+ degree images that capture the entire area around the camera. The machined aluminum was created by the SoMAS facility manager Mark Wiggins, and the pieces are expertly created. The thicker OtterBox-like cases needed to be removed for the S7 in order to secure the phone in the mount. It was tested with the Samsung Galaxy S5 and S7. The Mark III replaced the threaded rod and smartphone case with two machined aluminum grips that could be quickly adjusted and tightened on the smartphone. The smartphone case and threaded rod still exist, but the metal frame was used in the Mark IV design. ![]() The Mark II wasn’t perfectly aligned with the camera lens, but it still created a good photosphere. A 1/4″ threaded rod secured with 4 1/4″ hex nuts and 4 5/16″ Fender Washers provided the swivel mount, coupled with a Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone case secured to the threaded rod with a computer expansion port cover. The Mark II introduced a metal frame, built from Home Depot Slotted Bar Flat Steel, 48″ x 1 3/8″ x 1/8″, SKU 887480020670. The Mark I photosphere mount still exists and the rubber bands remain intact. It was a perfect first test that allowed for a few shots to be captured to great results. And it took great shots! The wood was taken from a Melissa and Doug bead set box, with the base removed and the rubber bands were in a drawer, so the cost for parts was $0.00. The rubberbands held the phone in place and the wood frame was easy to modify without needing any metalworking skills. The first photosphere mount I created was built out of rubberbands and wood. A tripod keeps the camera in place, but in order to capture the upward- and downward-facing images, the smartphone needs to swivel–and the lens needs to remain in roughly the same position. To truly create a proper photosphere that has minimal stitching errors, your phone needs to be placed in a controlled mount where the camera lens stays in roughly the same position for each individual shot. Unfortunately, creating a freehand photosphere can produce stitching issues between the individual images–jarring lines that show the viewer that the image you created is not a seamless environment but a set of photos pieced together. A photosphere can be created by simply moving your phone around to the dots indicated on the screen of your smartphone. Photosphere Viewer for Chrome is a free extension and works with Google Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux & Chrome OS.As detailed in my previous post, I am using the Google Camera App on my Samsung Galaxy S5 to create Photosphere images of the places at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and other parts of the Stony Brook University campus. In a rather awesome move the extension, which is open-source, was created and designed entirely on a Chromebook Pixel. It will open in the browser tab no extra widgets or unnecessary loading – just immersive locations right in your Chrome browser. You hit the ‘Ok’ button to load up a list of that users public Photospheres, and simply click on the image you want to explore. Welcome to the guessing game.īut once a correct e-mail has been entered things are simple. For people you know well this is fine, but for those you don’t? The other caveat is that it has to be the same e-mail address as they use for Google+. Firstly it requires you to know/have the GMail address of the person whose Photospheres you wish to view. Using the extension is not the most elegant. Using Google’s Photosphere API, the add-on has zero permissions, and ‘doesn’t track anything in anyway’, according to the developer. Photosphere Viewer allows public Photospheres shared on Google+ to be viewed in the browser. A new Chrome extension makes exploring Photospheres from your Google+ contacts a little bit easier.
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