This year you won't need a professional camera rig to grab an immersive 360-degree view of your surroundings so you can create and share your own VR photos and video. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a ...

Google Street View is no longer hidden away inside Google Maps; it now has its very own app on Android and iOS, which offers immersive 360-degree imagery, and allows you to contribute your own. “Find ...

It can be a pain to upload your own Street View photos even if you have a 360-degree camera. You may have to stop to take photos every few feet, and then there's the question of getting the spherical ...

Uploading your own Street View Photos -- even with a 360-degree camera-- can be a pretty laborious process. Google introduced "Street View ready" standards in 2017 to make things easier, and now ...

Similar to Daydream-ready smartphones for virtual reality, Google is launching a certification program for 360-degree cameras. “Street View ready” will insure that the upcoming 20 devices are ...

Google is retiring its Photo Sphere Camera app on iOS and the Street View feature from the Google Maps app on Android in favor of a new app for both operating systems: the Street View app. The tech ...

It’s no “street view for cats,” but Google’s newly launched Street View mobile app does promise to make it easier to explore Google Map’s immersive, 360-degree imagery as well as contribute your own ...

The tech giant is working with camera makers to create new devices that will help normal people like you and me contribute to Street View. Terry writes about social networking giants and legal issues ...

Who needs a street for Google Street View? The 360 camera, left, that Paolo Tosolini and David Geller used to map part of the Lake Washington shoreline from aboard a boat. (Paolo Tosolini Photo; ...

In Street View mode, you can see 360-degree images of Ollivanders Wand Shop. — -- The shops of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter are now on Google Maps' Street View. It's no Marauder's Map, but ...

The whole appeal of virtual reality is that it absorbs you. When it's done poorly, the simulacrum shows itself, and you get The Truman Show sort of feeling, the feeling that something's just not right ...

Google this week announced a certification program for a new line of “Street View ready” 360-degree cameras. In a blog post published Tuesday, the company said that 20 certified cameras launching this ...