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How to take and upload 360 photos in Facebook


Have you seen a 360 photos in your Facebook timeline? If you are using your computer you can drag the picture and look around as if you are in the place. Using high-end mobile devices you can tilt the device to move the picture from left to right. It is like using Google Street View where you can use to see a place in virtual reality.


In our previous article, we already explained what is Facebook 360 photos and how to identify if the photo or picture in front of you is a 360 photo. In this article we will teach you how to take a 360 photo and upload in Facebook.

Before you can upload 360 photos, you will need a panorama type of picture which you can capture through some apps that you can installed in your mobile device. Facebook did not give specific device device model although they mention in their article using iOS device or Samsung Galaxy phone.

Creating this article, I did not use either of that phone mention by Facebook. I cannot give specific phone specs to capture 360 photos for Facebook but base on my experience my old Nexus 4 cannot use to upload 360 photo although can capture panorama picture. If you think you have high-end phone you can try this method that I teach you to take 360 photo.

How to take 360 Photos

Ok, to take 360 photo using you Android device I will recommend to download Cardboard Camera app from Play Store this app is created by Google, or you can use any 360 camera, such as the Samsung Gear 360, RICOH THETA S, 360Fly, Giroptic 360 Cam or ALLie Camera. Once the app that you selected is installed in your device you can now start taking 360 photo.

In the steps and screenshots below I use the Cardboard Camera app installed on my OnePlus One Android phone.


Open Cardboard Camera then tap the camera button on the bottom right corner of the screen.

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