Would you prefer to see a panoramic photo or a 360° video? We have asked the question because a large number of people have not yet been able to adapt to the image offered by Google in its 360° videos, something that we had mentioned in a previous news item and that right now, there are already a few other new developments. additional to take into account.
If we talk about a 360° panoramic photograph, it is completely fixed although the user has the possibility of rotate in all directions to see details of said image capture. If we talk about a 360° video, the situation can be somewhat annoying for a few people because here, we are talking about "a moving image" (so to speak). In recent news it has been mentioned that Google has finally incorporated into its search engine, the option to find only these 360° videos Although, to see some of these results we need to apply a little trick.
Trick to find 360° videos on YouTube
If you go to the YouTube portal (with any web browser you want) you will not find at any time the option that will help you find only this type of videos. What many people usually do is try to enter “360° videos” as search terms, which will offer a large number of results to play at that same moment.
The trick that we will mention below can be used with the following sequential steps:
- Open your internet browser.
- Go to the YouTube.com portal
- In the search space, type any term or keyword that identifies what you want to find on YouTube.
- Now select the "Filters" button at the top left.
These filters that we have mentioned in the previous literal have always been present there, which always help us to try to search for videos in a personalized way. Right there you will be able to see an option that was not previously found, which is identified as 360° and which we show you in the following screenshot.
When you click on this function (360°), all those videos that have this characteristic and that are identified with the search terms that you wrote previously will appear. If you don't find anyone, you can type a keyword again in the search space at the top.
Additional recommendations in these 360° YouTube videos
Now, if you have been interested in seeing any of them, you must you will have to do it with the Google Chrome browser Well, in Mozilla Firefox, you cannot do panoramic navigation. After you locate this YouTube video in 360° using Google Chrome according to our suggestion, you will see that in the upper left part there is an icon with direction arrows, which will help you navigate through different corners of it.
You can use the « buttonbreak» if you want to use navigation in these 360° videos in a static scene; Everything we have mentioned fits perfectly well into the Google Chrome browser and of course, into the YouTube application on Android mobile devices. In the latter you only have to use your finger on the touch screen to start browsing different corners of these 360° videos on YouTube.
Although at this moment it is not possible to play these 360° videos in Mozilla Firefox, perhaps this will be possible when Google officially launches its new interface, something that we even mentioned previously through a little trick to activate said interface. In addition to this, we must remember the news in which we will suggest what Google would propose for YouTube on mobile devices, since its new application would stop working on those considered old. This leads us to think that the new YouTube mobile application will have the ability to make these 360° videos work on all types of mobile devices and in any browser with which we usually work.