Ricoh Theta on 4 different websites

1/5/2014

There are at least four major websites that can be used to host 360 degree panoramas (aka, PhotoSpheres): Ricoh Theta, Microsoft PhotoSynth, Google Views, and 360 Cities. Here is a comparison of how Photo Spheres appear wheb embedded from these websites.

Ricoh Theta

Publishing to the Ricoh Theta website is built into the smartphone apps≥ Unfortunately I can't find a recipe for publishing 360 degree panoramas produced by methods other than the Theta to the Theta website.

Post from RICOH THETA. - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA

Microsoft PhotoSynth

Click here to find instructions on how to publish a PhotoSphere to Microsoft PhotoSynth.

Google Views

Click here to find instructions on how to publish a PhotoSphere to Google Views.

Views: Lexington Minuteman by Harry Forsdick

360 Cities

Click here to find instructions on how to publish a PhotoSphere to 360Cities.

Lexington Minuteman in usa

5 Comments

bruce oberg

1/12/2014 03:55:07 pm

can you provide some more detail on the photosynth instructions? i have tried using the phptosynth PC app, and it doesn't seem to accept single images from the theta. it wants me to create a "synth" from 3 images.

Harry Forsdick link

2/1/2014 08:39:07 am

If you connect your THETA to your PC, you can download the jpegs directly from your camera. Then you should be able to load a full panorama up to photosynth. I probably used some sort of web interface to upload the photo. Sorry, I can't remember much more than that.

-- Harry

carlos esquer link

1/30/2016 01:17:01 am

Hello there,

I am building my website with weebly and I cant find any option on how to add up my 360 pictures like you did in this website.

Could you help me out ?Maybe guiding me how you did it ?

Regards,
Carlos Esquer
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Harry C Forsdick

1/30/2016 08:31:34 am

I used the embed code item in Weebly and got the code from the Theta website to which I had uploaded the photo sphere.

steve

5/26/2016 11:21:27 pm

First you have to load your images to the theta website into your account.
Once the images are there you need to make them public (or select public option at upload). Go to theta website and log in to see your images. once an image is opened, you can click on the small green box at the bottom that says "embed" this will give you the code that you will copy and paste into your site (if weebly, use the embed html code tool to drag on page, and paste into it) If you want to change the size of the image just change the 500 in the code to something else.

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