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360° Image viewing
Has anyone else ever tried to import a 360° image into a Storyline file? I'm using Storyline 360 for training purposes and would like to include a picture in which someone can look around a room and identify key items. It would look similar to the images that were flooding Facebook for some time. You can click into the image and then scroll around or change the angle at which your device was pointed and look around in an environment...any suggestions appreciated.
I've tried once but it just wants to flatten the image and create a panoramic picture.
Thanks!
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I really want to play with this.. so how do you take a 360 degree photo.. lol can you do it with an iPhone?
You can download free 360 images to play with
This is a great update! Now I have to put that 360 degree camera to good use. We were going to use two SCORM files and two different software options in order to utilize 360 images, but now I can keep the learner in one single learning module. Thanks!
You can take 360 images with a phone, but in my experience, a dedicated 360 camera is waaaay better. There are often a lot of artifacts when the phone stiches it together, so you would probably need to fix the image in photoshop afterwards. Go to the link provided in the article, or search for equirectangular images on the web. Or even more rewarding, create your own 3D environment in Blender.
This wasn't a feature I ever thought about but after taking a few quick panoramas with my phone and playing about with it, I'm very excited!
Hi,
I would love to know which camera images work best to get a quality panoramic image in this new feature? I made some with my iPhone but they look horrendous once imported 😞
Hi Tom, I have tested the GoPro max before, and that deliveres superb quality (also a "futureproof" purchase for when Articulate hopefully allows us to insert 360 video as well). But, it's not the cheapest. Found this article on premiumbeat comparing some of them (from last year, but don't think there's been that much progress on the 360 side as it's quite niche)
Hi Kristoffer, I'm going to add it to the camera's I'm taking with me in the comparison before purchasing one :)
Really missing the option to create a trigger to show a layer on mouse hover. :( Would love for that to be added to the roadmap.
Hi Kristoffer,
Do you want to display text (like a tooltip) when hovering over the marker? If it is, that is on the roadmap =)
If not, can you explain more about what you're looking for and the use case for it? We'd love to hear more about what you would want to see!
I was planning on using it for fully custom tooltips for hotspots (not markers) 😊
This might be a super specific use case, but I created a hallway with 6 doors, and I want the user to see what's behind each door when hovering over them. Created a quick mockup to show what I'm trying to achieve:
Hi Kristoffer,
Thanks for the reply and example! We've actually updated our roadmap to show that tooltips will be available for both markers AND hotspots! So while it's not going to display a layer, hopefully it will be enough to do what you need.
How about the ability to zoom in and out?
