New iOS Photography App by Google – Photo Sphere Camera – Now Available
Google have launched a brand new iOS Photography application called Photo Sphere Camera. Essentially, it allows the photographer to capture 360-degree images and publish them directly to Google Maps or other social networks. Panoramic apps or even the iOS ‘Pano’ mode is not a new feature to iOS photographers, one particularly notable app which became hugely popular for this was Cycloramic. The difference with Photo Sphere Camera is that the photographer can use the app in a similar way to Google Street View, in as much as you can view up and down as well as left to right.
When you have captured your Photo Sphere you’ll find that there’s a dedicated community within Google Maps entitled Views, that you can publish to as well as the usual other social platforms. There is also the opportunity that Google may use your Photo Sphere within Google Maps to help other users view the world through your eyes.
Photo Sphere Camera is free to download and you can pick it up here. We’d love to see your captures, please upload them to our Flickr group here.
Google Maps ‘Views’
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.
