I just went and looked, but couldn’t find a credible alternative on Android. Found an open source option that claimed to do spherical stitching, but crashed my phone when I tried to use it. I also stumbled upon the 360 videos I made with my Essential Phone, which I’d forgotten about but was kind of cool going into my past from that perspective. Honestly, the best replacement seems to be a 360 camera, which obviously doesn’t fall within the budget of many people
Maaaaan… I didn’t use this for 360 photos, but as a workaround for the broken panorama mode. Every panorama photo I take with my pixel 6 is blurry - I believe it’s a bug where the camera doesn’t refocus when taking the next image
The thing that upsets me about this is that there’s a way to basically post photospheres to Google maps. So in distant locations where there’s interesting features (far away from a road) you can do a photosphere and essentially make it public on maps, so anyone can experience that location from anywhere in the world anytime they want.
Google maps generally only has “Street view” that’s provided and almost all other location ground-based view is a submission by someone.
This will sharply end the ability for people to add more of that or simply update any that already exist.
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