360 panorama support

selic

I have a lot of 360 degree panoramas in my library. I wonder if you can add support of viewing or at least add default external viewer for 360 photos based on EXIF data.

Andrey

selic can you please share some of those images?

selic

Hello Andrey,

I’ve sent sample images to support email. Let me know if you received it or use this link to dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/t/DKtdeOewlnfLFRmb

Basically you can detect panoramas by EXIF tags.
Most 360 panoramas have:
GPano: ProjectionType equirectangular

Also 360 degree panoramas always have 2:1 W:H ratio

Andrey

selic Thank you for samples, downloaded.

selic

I use PTGui viewer to view 360 panoramas and I believe it’s enough to install their trial version to get viewer.

Andrey

Andrey it looks it should not be that difficult to support this kind of photos. It may look something like this: https://photo-sphere-viewer.js.org/demos/basic/0-config.html but build into the application.

The challenge is though this does not look to be high priority feature request, first of its kind. I would rather wait for more people voting for it before giving it a priority.