Street View workflow ready: Publishing tools (sometimes bundled with cameras) that can upload to Street View accounts.Street View vr ready: 360 cameras or systems that collect geometry in addition to generating sets of connected 360 photos.

Street View auto ready: 360 cameras tailored for vehicle-based collection with the highest accuracy.Street View mobile ready: 360 cameras that can publish Street View directly from a mobile app-without requiring a desktop workflow.Google have actually created 4 categories for the types of cameras it recommends for street view photography: Google has minimum requirements for uploading 360 images onto its street view platform, so you’ll need to make sure you have a camera that meets their standards. If you want a 360 camera specifically for uploading to Google street view there are definitely some options that are better than others. The number of cheaper, consumer 360 cameras has exploded in the past few years, meaning there are now many options to choose from if you want a simple, all in one solution for shooting 360 images. Thankfully it’s now easier than ever to add your own images to Google Street View and you can get started for less than $200.ĭon’t believe me? Here’s my Street View profile that has racked up nearly 1 million views, all with photos taken by a 360 camera that now costs $125 Hundreds of millions of people use street view, so it’s not surprising that many are keen to contribute to this huge repository of 360 images. Google Street view was the first interactive 360 experience that went mainstream, now its impossible to imagine a world where I can’t explore a random street in New York from the comfort of my London home.

Photo sphere google earth