But why? I LOVED that featu- oh wait! Right
Bring out your dead!
I don’t have enough wheelbarrows for all of them.
But isn’t that feature a crucial component of people adding 360° pictures to google maps?
Maybe the Pixel team didn’t talk to the Maps team. Maybe they did and the maps team said they didn’t care. Maybe everyone involved in all of these features has since left the company. With Google, who knows?
The accuracy of this comment is amazing.
This is literally the answer to all of the questions
They also notably ended their dedicated Street View app: https://9to5google.com/2022/11/01/google-street-view-app-shutting-down/.
WHY? It’s one of the reasons why I like Pixel cameras?!
One more thing to add to the Google Graveyard
Every time I hear about Google killing a feature, it’s the first time hearing about the feature. So it makes sense to me.
Oh bloody hell!! I loved this feature! I always capture 360 photos to relive on VR!! Even the cardboard one was incredibly immersive!!!
Nooooo. I always use this when the wide angle lens is not wide enough.
WHAT THE FUCK GOOGLE
I use this camera mode the most
Google removed the ability to turn them into tiny planets YEARS ago, and that’s what upsets me the most.
I loved this picture feature when out and about in nature. I loved adding them to Maps too! I’ve used this feature for about 10 years now. I can’t believe they are getting rid of it. It was so fun and something I thought others would add to their camera app
I love this feature and use it all the time! Are there any apps I can replace this with?
Probably not
I love pixel phones but I still buy iPhones because I know nothing ever changes in the Apple world, and if it does it’s slow.
Google makes amazing things and just takes them away so what’s the point of being excited anymore.
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That’s what I mean, is google is hostile to its users by canceling features people use all the time. It’s just hard to feel invested in anything they do besides like YouTube and search
Maaaaan… I didn’t use this for 360 photos, but as a workaround for the broken panorama mode. Every panorama photo I take with my pixel 6 is blurry - I believe it’s a bug where the camera doesn’t refocus when taking the next image
Fucking Google…
The thing that upsets me about this is that there’s a way to basically post photospheres to Google maps. So in distant locations where there’s interesting features (far away from a road) you can do a photosphere and essentially make it public on maps, so anyone can experience that location from anywhere in the world anytime they want.
Google maps generally only has “Street view” that’s provided and almost all other location ground-based view is a submission by someone.
This will sharply end the ability for people to add more of that or simply update any that already exist.
