![]() In turn, web services and social networks have, accordingly, help standardise XMP-tags so that software knows when and how to display a panorama image correctly. These days most of us have a smart phone in our pocket, and this ubiquity has undoubtedly helped the humble panorama become popular as a photo format. ![]() The ‘eog panorama’ plugin by Aerilius brings a 360 panorama viewer feature to the image viewer of Ubuntu. The plugin is ideal for anyone that wants to view panoramic photos on a PC or laptop. Thankfully a developer is working on a plugin solution for Eye of GNOME, the default image viewer on Ubuntu - and about time, too! Sure, I can zoom in and then pan, but it’s still a flat experience for an image that, on other devices, can be viewed in a more intimate way. The downside is how it displays such images by default: as a long, linear, horizontal strip: Eye of GNOME supports panoramic and photo sphere photos out of the box. On Android I can view, pan and orbit around this image in 3D, spherical way, as I can in the browser when I view it on Google Photos.īut what if I want to view 360 panoramic photos on Ubuntu in the native image viewer? Does it work? Can I? Wanting something a little more immersive than a standard (and constrained) snap I used the ‘Photo Sphere’ feature on my Nexus 5X’s camera app to take a multi-shot panoramic photo. When I visited I (naturally) couldn’t resist trying to capture the impressive view. You can see for miles and miles across multiple counties in a stunning 360-degree panorama. The view from the top of Glastonbury Tor is breathtaking.
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