Check out these 360 snapshots from Alexa Linden - and don’t forget to click and drag on them! All web browsers can display it, so you can add it to your social media feed or your favorite photo-sharing service. jpeg format, which does not require a special viewer. The Hide Avatars checkbox is good for when you want to take a landscape shot but you don’t want to wait until no one is at that location. You may have turned off features such as shadows and water reflections to make Second Life run faster, but for your 360 snapshot you may want to change some settings. The quality of the snapshot is also affected by your graphics preferences (Me > Preferences > Graphics). While a snapshot is being created, Second Life may appear to freeze. It’s not necessary to use preview quality while you are composing your snapshot, but if a higher quality level is slow on your computer, you can save it for the final snapshot. Snapshot creation speed depends on your computer’s graphics capabilities. Re-frame your shot by moving your camera in-world and creating another snapshot. You can click and drag on the preview image in all directions to see if you like it. When opened, the tool quickly creates a low resolution preview taken from the location of your in-world camera. Better than a static image, the 360 snapshot can be clicked and dragged so you can move your ‘camera’ anywhere in the snapshot, at any angle, as if you are inside it. Technically speaking, the snapshot is an equirectangular image projection.
Better than a simple panoramic image, the 360 snapshot covers 360 degrees in all three dimensions, allowing you to see everything both above and below your avatar as well, as though the image is projected on the inside of a sphere. You can now take a 360-degree snapshot of a location in Second Life.
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See full 360 Image by Alexa Linden on Flickr