With the mid pace of IFA 2015, Google has flawed the overexciting application, based on the same concept furnished by Ricoh's Theta Camera. The company's creation to get an app, which feature a Street View, can help users to upload bundle of spherical photos to cast the identity of human as the Street View Car. Google Maps are blessed to be the privileged one.
The spherical photos are to be uploaded to the web via Google Map and can be surfed as the human identity via artificial objects or snaps. The application spins off new idea which takes user to a new world. The platform can help access to snapper's edge, along with the ability to connect automatically to the camera, as in case of Ricoh's Theta camera series. The user can shoot images to put on the sphere and can even connect to the spherical camera at the same time via Street View app. It sounds like the app is a combination of Google's own photography and crowdsourced spheres.
The Google Maps Product Manager, Charles Armstrong said, "the new app will allow people all over the world to explore user contributions, Google's own imagery, and their own published photo spheres through a seamless world map of landscapes, landmarks, business interiors and more". Further commencing, the application's main screen provides a navigatory mode to move on to the Panorama uploaded, to scroll the place in the world. Along with the Panorama support, it has 'Collections' and 'Explore' tab to provide the photos uploaded by Google ans User. Compass icon helps in better navigation through accelerometer, that can be supported with the portrait or landscape view of the phone.
On the right side, there is a slide-out option exploring two types of Camera: Spherical Camera and normal Camera. The user can select any one of it to feature a normal shooting mode, while connected to the spherical front, similar to Google's stock Android camera app. The snaps are finally shaped up and stored in 'Private' tab on Home Screen where user can publish it on 'Street View' and can review it. Further, coming on to the Spherical Camera, the app connects the user to the hardware front for featuring the same. IOS and Android apps are now outdated with the overwhelming apps coming up.
Source: engadget.com
