This year you won't need a professional camera rig to grab an immersive 360-degree view of your surroundings so you can create and share your own VR photos and video. Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a ...

Similar to Daydream-ready smartphones for virtual reality, Google is launching a certification program for 360-degree cameras. “Street View ready” will insure that the upcoming 20 devices are ...

You no longer need a Trekker if you want to help capture Street View experiences. Google has certified the Insta360 Pro as the first "Street View auto ready" camera, allowing anybody who owns one to ...

It can be a pain to upload your own Street View photos even if you have a 360-degree camera. You may have to stop to take photos every few feet, and then there's the question of getting the spherical ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has sort of forced many people into staying home, it looks as though Google is leveraging people power to help populate Google Maps’ awesome Street View feature with a new ...

The whole appeal of virtual reality is that it absorbs you. When it's done poorly, the simulacrum shows itself, and you get The Truman Show sort of feeling, the feeling that something's just not right ...

Insta360 Pro camera Photographers or those interested in adding imagery to the Google Street View mapping service may be interested in a new 360 camera called the Insta360 Pro camera which is capable ...

I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts covering smart home, home entertainment, wearables, fitness and health tech, and various other product ...

Google Street View and Google Earth have quietly, or not so quietly, done a great deal of crowdsourced data gathering in order to map the surface of the Earth. It seems like a Street View rig has gone ...

The Google Street View project has sent cars to photograph places around the world, but it has never been to the Faroe Islands. Some islanders have found a unique way to put itself on the map. Now a ...

With uploading to Street View a hassle even for those with a 360 degree camera, Google is looking to simplify matters by assisting with upcoming devices. The tech giant has announced it’s working with ...