Lookabout

Instagram for 360° photos

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Instagram for 360° photos

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Looks nice, although I can't play with it as there's no Android app. The only thing is I question - what happens when Instagram add 360 support? Will this app just fade away?

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9yr ago

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@benbristowuk hey Ben, very fair question! Instagram will support 360 just like Facebook supports normal photos, they're there but there's a big enough audience (or will be a big enough audience) that just wants to see 360 pics, not normal pics. So instead of sifting through a ton of normal pics on Instagram to find a few 360 ones, you can just go to Lookabout and know that everything is awesome, immersive 360 😄 what's your take?

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9yr ago

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Love it! 360 photos are 100x better than the normal and this makes it so easy to capture them. What's next on the roadmap? (after android)

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9yr ago

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@kar2905 360 filters + editing, panorama upload support, more sharing features, and some cool new discover features 🎉

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9yr ago

Good clarity on images and will be cool to see once they have videos supported. I like emojis but curious to why that's required?

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9yr ago

Lookabout

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@3amjosh Thank you! Yes I am excited to get 360 videos into the feeds as well. Glad you like the emojis. We have some cool feature ideas coming soon involving them!

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9yr ago

Hi I'm a beginner in smartphone intagramming, this looks super cool and it has potential to dominate both IOS and Android market as its just an app to capture 360° Photos that is actually a big deal! Wanna get notified about the Android version till then can I use this app on IPad or IPod? Can't wait to make amazing 360 picture with this app! Cheers.

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9yr ago

Lookabout

Maker

@sagar868 Hey Sagar, we've left iPad out of the mix for now to focus on iterations with iPhone screen sizes. Unfortunately iPods don't have cameras. We're working on the Android version based on how much interest we've had today!

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9yr ago

@jack_ogrady Yes already signed up to get notified for the android version, from the link you put above. Thanks! And what do you mean by IPods don't have cameras? 🤔

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9yr ago

I helped build UTeleport (https://play.google.com/store/ap...), a very similar app, last year. BIggest lesson was that Instagram and Facebook are going to be the "Instagram for 360 photos" - the barrier to content creation was pretty high as well due to the requirement of dedicated 360 cameras. We even hooked into the OSC APIs to control the cameras directly inside our app - making it easier to go from capture to publish in one step...

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9yr ago

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@alamgir_mand Thanks for passing this along w/ your learnings!

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9yr ago

Cool concept! Installed it on my iPhone 5s and it is indeed fun! However in a matter of seconds my phone heated up so much, I couldn't hold it in my hands.

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9yr ago

Lookabout

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@kilinandi We've noticed that the computing power of an iPhone 6 seems to be the minimum requirement for an enjoyable experience. The 360 views take up a lot more power that just wasn't anticipated from phone makers 4 years or so ago (shoutout Moore's Law) -- my iPhone 6 still gets a little slow! Awesome experience on 7, 6s, 6, and 5se, and of course all the future phones w/ more CPU power :) Hope you can still find time to enjoy Lookabout, and thanks for the interest! Always working on optimizing the experience & performance

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9yr ago

@jack_ogrady thanks for clarifying! Fingers crossed and looking forward to this sm channel becoming the next big thing 😍😎

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9yr ago

Confused for a quick sec by the title. Thought it was Instagram adding 360 view capability (which maybe they already have as FB does). Cool though. This could be a lot of fun having 360 pics in a feed. Especially love not needing extra hardware.

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9yr ago

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