New feature in Storyline 360: Interactive 360° images

Hi PJ,

Thanks for the added feedback! 360 video support and custom markers/icons have been shared with the team, so I'll add you to the list of folks who have requested it.

As far as the 360 image transition, Annie mentioned here that it's an intentional nudge to provide an indication to the user. The team is considering making that a toggle option, so we'll keep you updated here!

Hi, 

There is a weird behavior with the hotspots. When I click a hotspot It shows the color of the hotspot even if I have unchecked reveal hotspot in the settings. Also whenever I click somewhere in the 360 image the hotspots shows up again all at ones!

Did someone found a solution to this? 

Here is a video of the issue.

Thanks.

Hi Mehdi,

Thanks for reaching out and sharing that video! I couldn't tell when you were clicking or hovering, but when the Reveal Hotspots option is unchecked, this is what should happen:

• No initial visual cue displays for visited or unvisited hotspots.
• Hovering over a hotspot area changes the cursor to a hand.
• Clicking any area of the hotspot displays its entire shape and thickens its border.
• Visited hotspots become a darker color.
• Clicking outside of a hotspot causes visited hotspots to briefly flash. (Unvisited hotspots don’t appear. Visited hotspots are darker.)

It looks like the expected behavior is occurring, but let us know if something isn't matching this!

📚 360 Degree Images: Understanding How Hotspots Behave

It would be nice if you could add additional editing features to the hotspots, like transparency, and separate outline and fill settings.  Also, the ability on preview to have a pulsating outline on hotspots with no fill area revealed, similar to a Marker with a transparent fill and no icon.  Thanks for this new 360 function, looking forward to using it in future projects.

Hi,

We recently found a bug on iOS devices, when we move from a 360 image to another one using hotspots randomly the course restarts, the whole browser refreshes. I have tried to find out what creates the issue, I went and deleted element by element, once I delete the 360 image and add a simple next button it works fine, I have tried only taking off the hotspots and keeping the 360 image and adding a next button, but the bug still exists so the only way we get rid of the bug is by deleting the 360 images.

I have tested on other android devices here below you will find the results.

• iPhone 12 → iOS 14.8 → Safari, Chrome, Firefox → The course restarts randomly
• Samsung Tab S7 → Android 11 → Default brows, Firefox → Everything works fine
  
• Samsung Tab S7 → Android 11 → Chrome → At some point randomly the 360 image disappears leaving a white BG

You also find here attached a video of the bug.

It will be awesome if you can address this issue on your next update 😊

Thanks. 

That is great news Crystal, thank you!

Thank you Lauren, this is helpful. When it comes to the 360 images themselves, I see the option to add Alt Text, but it appears inactive when I am inside the interaction. Is it possible I am missing something? 

It would be really convenient to add Alt Text to the 360 images from there. I see I can do it from the Media Library, but for 360 images it can be difficult to decipher what's what, since you aren't looking at the images from within a 360 viewer.

Hi, Chris.

You can add alt text to the 360º image itself by going to Home > Focus order:

What we included in the update was the ability to add alt text to images and videos in a marker or hotspot label within the 360º interaction. 

I hope this helps!

I see, thank you that does help. Fingers crossed that markers are made accessible in the next update!

The 360-Degree Image feature is a really nice enhancement! Great work, everyone!

I just read Katie Riggio's article on accessibility support for this feature, and she commented that the Articulate team is still working on screen-reader support and keyboard navigation.

I tested out a brief interaction created with this feature and noticed that, although it is possible to navigate around the 360-degree image with all four keyboard arrow keys, there's currently (apparently) not a way to tab or navigate to a hotspot and select/open it.

Any ETA on when more accessible features, like the ones Katie mentioned, might be ready? Thanks in advance--and thanks for always working on improvements to SL360! :)