FAQ

Can I embed video

Not with this version of this plugin. Anyway, hosting video files on your server is very traffic consuming, so you probably should not be doing that anyway. Using Youtube or similar service would be a lot cheaper and less stressful to your servers.

Is there a nice web UI for embedding the images

No and (at least for now) I plan to keep this plugin as a shortcode

How many 360-degree images can I embed on one page

As many as you want (though don’t use too many – this may make the page too slow on slow computers)

How can I support you

• Give 5 stars to this plugin
• Subscribe to my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/rtfms and keep posting cheerful comments

How do I save a screenshot of the 360-degree photo viewport?

Click on the photo you wish to save and press Control-Alt-S (yes, it’s still Control-Alt-S even on Mac, not Command-Alt-S).
This will save the current viewport. If you want to save the entire photo you need to press Control-Alt-Shift-S.

The center part of the photo looks good, but everything further away from the center looks distorted. How do I fix this?

You may also notice that the parts of the image close to the left and right edges are are moving unnaturally when you’re
looking left and right. It looks like one of those photos made with bad fisheye lens. This happens when you’re trying to
fit an image into the viewport that’s too stretched horizontally. The photo dimensions are „calibrated“ by the vertical
dimension, so the horizontal part gets too stretched at the edges. There are two ways to fix the problem:
– a better way is to always display the image in a viewport with x/y ratio close to 3/4. For instance if you sent the width
to 300 then the height should be close to 400
– if the „better“ way is not possible due to your page layout then adjust the „fov“ parameter. The default is 80, so try
to reduce it to 40 or even less for extremely stretched images. This will cause some image quality degradation though
because science (optics, to be more specific).

My picture looks like some kind of kaleidoscope. How do I fix this?

360 View plugin only supports equirectangular images (at least at the moment). Check your camera software, it most definitely
supports export in the most popular equirectangular format and use that format. If you open your image in a regular photo viewer
and it looks like two circles, that’s the wrong format. For instance, in Insta360 One X Studio 2020 you need to open the .insp
file and export it – that will generate the acceptably formatted image.

My mobile browser shows strange message when I’m trying to view the 360-degree image: „Set your browser to request the mobile version of the site and reload the page to enjoy immersive mode.“. How to fix this?

This message appears in mobile browsers (Mobile Safari for instance) when it’s configured to retrieve the desktop version
of the site instead of mobile. You have two options:
– Just click „Close“ and continue watching the photo using the „finger version of drag-and-drop“. It’s not impressive,
especially since you may not be able to navigate vertically.
– Configure your browser to request the mobile version. In iOS 13 that’s Settings->Safari->Request Desktop Website->All Websites
and turn that off. This will allow you to watch the image by moving your mobile device around, it will work like a „portal“.
BTW, this will also fix this problem in Chrome since in iOS Chrome is Safari-based.

My mobile browser asks „This immersive website requires access to your device motion sensors. (Deny/Allow). What do I do?

You have two options:
– Deny – in this case you will only be able to watch the image by scrolling it horizontally with your finger. That’s
less than impressive and very inconvenient.
– Allow – this will allow you to navigate the image by moving the mobile device around. That’s a lot more immersive!