mundo472
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For those of you not able to load the Sammy Surround Shot, try resetting (turn off and on) first.
Here is another solution you can check out, it is an early access Photosphere BETA.Thank you anyway though! It's just so annoying on Samsung's part... why can't they just leave it be?
Also while searching around on some pretty old threads, I saw some people mention using Google Street View app to shoot Photospheres. I just installed that and it does seem to work. Funny that it's kind of a hidden feature of that app as it's used more for people to view and share Photospheres publicly. So if you just want to use it for your own personal use, just make sure not to publish anything after shooting.
Here's the link for that if anyone's interested: https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...s?id=com.google.android.street&token=NZ6d32bf
Looks like there are 2 solutions now to regain the ability to shoot Photospheres on the S8, though they are kind of hacky. Hopefully some day maybe Samsung will just simply put that feature back in.
Sorry guys... I thought they made Google Camera available to all... what about this one Cardboard Camera by Google. It shows up on my S7 Play Store.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...tails?id=com.google.vr.cyclops&token=kNA4Wzo-
It is built in. It is called "Virtual Shot." You access it like you access the Pro camera.
Virtual Shot does it too. It doesn't to a 360 though.
Ok. Then explain how I managed to do it then with Virtual Shot?
This is the first disappointment with my S8+. I have hope a decent app will come. I've tried a few, with much disappointment. Google Street view is about the best, and I am not very impressed.
Pretty much the same way I feel. I take Photospheres and publish them to Google Maps all the time. I was expecting the experience to be better on my GS8+ than on my Nexus 6p, but that clearly isn't the case. I reached out to Samsung Mobile USA via twitter. Hopefully they can tell us why the surround shot app isn't available as I would expect Samsung's implementation to be better than Google's street view camera.
Sharing them to Google maps is a good way to keep record of adventures. If I can't reliably do these with an S8, which should take higher quality 360s than the 6p, i'm going to be disappointed.
https://goo.gl/maps/fX9g7ky6kpG2
https://goo.gl/maps/gvVYPVjeAB82
https://goo.gl/maps/My6bDTznW5m
https://goo.gl/maps/EyRcJvPF4wk
https://goo.gl/maps/6rZ63VbydFF2
https://goo.gl/maps/5mtgNDidcs92
https://goo.gl/maps/jKcUng414sQ2
https://goo.gl/maps/nXDDDaEpdbR2