By now, we all know about the awesome PhotoSphere feature that the camera app in Android 4.2
is going to be equipped with. The PhotoSphere mode will allow you to
capture 360° spherical views, or to be clearer, a 360° panoramic image,
similar to the effect you get when you check out a Google Street View
image. Really awesome feature, which makes Panorama mode seem so passe.
What’s
even better, is that once you have clicked your PhotoSphere image, you
can choose to upload it to Google Maps, which makes it available in its
Street View app. That’s so cool. To add to that, the GPS location of the
image is automatically tagged, and made available for others to view on
Google Earth, Google+, and even Google Search.
While StreetView
already has a huge number of locations already available in its
database, imagine the number of user-added images that are going to get
added via this awesome feature. That’s really smart, Google – using the
users to contribute to a service that they so often use. By introducing
this feature, Google just ensured that there would be a street view
image of every place possible, where an Android 4.2 device exists. +1 to
you again, Google.
Can you think of some other fun daily-life
uses of adding your Photosphere captures to Google Maps? I can think of a
few naughty ones, but let’s hear your ideas first.
Via Droid-Life
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