It is what is fashionable in the audiovisual world, the world of 360 degrees, the ability to give a new point of view in a visualization from a video or photo. And the fashion of the 360 is such that even YouTube already allows us to stream video in 360, something that already allows us to enjoy a game by turning the camera or have several points of view in a concert of our favorite artist.
And if Google already has 360-degree video players implemented, Facebook was not going to be less ... Facebook has just announced that it now allows us to upload 360-degree photos and to be able to rotate the camera from its application for mobile devices (even using the accelerometers) and from the main website of the social network par excellence ...
More than ten years ago we introduced the pictures on Facebook, now we improve with the 360 view so that immersive experiences can be shared. This is what the guys from Facebook are telling us by introducing this new sharing feature. And the best thing is that we can upload them from any device. Any photography that we do with a 360 camera or even with our devices mobile phones (iOS and Android) with any app that takes 360-degree photos.
You will only have to upload this photo from the Facebook share menu. Facebook will detect that it is a panoramic photograph and will adapt to 360 view. For visualize them, once you see one of these photos in your timeline, you just have to click on it to view it by turning your device or dragging on the screen to rotate the camera's point of view. Will Apple enter this world? Who knows, they surprise us by adding the possibility of creating immersive photos in the next iOS 10, we will see ...
