G+_Robert Blank Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I've been having loads of fun with Cardboard Camera, but the lack of importing content into the app is a glaring omission. As you guys mentioned on the show, there's currently no way to share with other users. But even worse, if something happens and it's necessary to reinstall Cardboard Camera, I can't get my own creations back into the app. That seems like a rather big fail to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 A lot more features are coming this is a pretty good interview with devs on the process http://www.wired.com/2015/12/google-cardboard-camera-app/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Blank Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 Marlon Thompson Don't get me wrong. I'm not the kind to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm actually very excited to use this app and I'm equally excited to see all the new features they have in store for us. I can understand their position about the lack of a sharing function. Many people do not have their own VR viewer yet. That justification makes total sense to me. But not being able to restore my own creations back into the app? If they are planning to add that feature in the future, then great. But that's the kind of thing that should have been there when they rolled it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Robert Blank oh I wasn't criticising I was actually about to share the article I linked when I saw your post and decided not to create a new one but just add to yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Robert Blank you can upload the pictures you take the extension for the file will be .vr.jpg if you view it in a web browser it looks like a panorama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Blank Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 Marlon Thompson That's correct. But I'd like to be able to add those vr.jpg files into the Cardboard Camera app to be viewed in full VR glory. That's not possible to do...yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 cool understood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank??? Google photos was able to backup my cardboard camera pictures which I was able to download and view on a separate phone. The trick was to tell Google Photos to upload original instead of high quality.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Blank Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 Kenneth Lewelling After uploading to Google Photos at original quality, how do you get them into the Cardboard Camera app? As far as I can tell, the photos can't be viewed stereoscopicly in Google Photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank? I didn't do anything special. I opened Google photos and manually downloaded the photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank? just reread your comment. You're correct I couldn't view n Google photos. I had to download and view in cardboard camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Blank Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 Kenneth Lewelling Now I'm confused. Are you saying you were able to add the image into the Cardboard Camera app? How did you do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank?? I didn't do anything. I downloaded the picture in Google photos (app) and it showed up in cardboard camera. I think cardboard camera puts its files in the same directory as the camera app which is auto backed up by Google photos. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank?? it doesn't appear to matter where the cardboard camera image is saved. I just did a little test and downloaded a vr.jpeg photo from my Google photo account into my phone's download directory and It showed up in cardboard camera.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Blank Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 Kenneth Lewelling Interesting. Maybe the Cardboard app is smart enough to detect the extra metadata in the VR jpeg files. All the images I've taken with Cardboard have already been backed up at the "High Quality" settings and changing my backup settings will not initiate a retransfer of those images. I'll have to test your method next time I get a chance to shoot more images. Thanks for your tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank? I discovered the same thing about changing high quality to original. The older cardboard camera images stay at high quality and I can't view them on the other phone. Only cardboard camera images I have taken since changing to original can be viewed on the other phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank? Let me try and share a photo with you. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YwB_JY0DMJsLrO_WL6ZKegIhopm4ErnbvA/view?usp=docslist_api Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Robert Blank???? if that link works here is how I did it. I went into Google Drive then to the photos area from the left side menu. I opened the photo and clicked the share menu. Next I selected "copy link". Be aware I tried the same "copy link" from Google photos and it only shared a "high quality" version of the photo which will not work in cardboard camera. Seems only Google Drive will share the original version? Correction, seems I was wrong about "copy link"in Google Photos. I tried again and it worked fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Blank Posted December 11, 2015 Author Share Posted December 11, 2015 Kenneth Lewelling? It's anything but intuitive, but it worked. The link opened in the Drive app, but from there I was like a deer in headlights trying to figure out how to get it from Drive into Cardboard. The share sheet in the Drive app was useless. I eventually found the download button by first tapping the info button. After I downloaded a local copy of it, it magically appeared in my Cardboard Camera app. Excellent find on this! However, sharing images this way is a confusing mess. Google desperately needs a native sharing function for Cardboard Camera.? My photos are simultaneously backed up to Amazon Cloud Drive at full resolution since I have unlimited storage there as a Prime member. I bet I can share VR images from Amazon using the same method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Robert Blank? agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Robert Blank and Kenneth Lewelling it was fascinating watching you two go back and forth :) Jason Howell you should check out their hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kenneth Lewelling Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 I put together a more compact posting on how to share the cardboard camera photos https://plus.google.com/+KennethLewelling/posts/JgbAjs9tCtP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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