Hanger 360

Logger · Apr 16, 2017

regdawg said:
So does litchi or GO have this 360 feature?

Litchi YES. Go No.

regdawg · Apr 16, 2017

Logger said:
Litchi YES. Go No.

Is it as easy to do on litchi like hanger 360?

Logger · Apr 16, 2017

regdawg said:
Is it as easy to do on litchi like hanger 360?

Absolutely Not. Heaps more work with Litchi but the results can be quite a bit better.

Kestrel · Apr 16, 2017

regdawg said:
Is it as easy to do on litchi like hanger 360?

You have to stitch the images yourself if you use litchi.

macinfosys · Apr 17, 2017

I was playing around and did some research and it looks like others have used PTGui to stitch the Litchi images. All automated but have a lot of flexibility if needed. And the quality is much higher than Hanger 360. BUT Hanger 360 creates no brainier 360 image with minimal effort as long as quality that you are seeing here is good for your end result.

I think both have their place depending on what you are looking for at that point in time. I can see myself doing a QUICK Hanger shot to slap into Facebook or some sort of social media site and then using Litchi at times when I want something that is more permanent and of higher quality.

Kestrel · Apr 17, 2017

macinfosys said:
I was playing around and did some research and it looks like others have used PTGui to stitch the Litchi images. All automated but have a lot of flexibility if needed. And the quality is much higher than Hanger 360. BUT Hanger 360 creates no brainier 360 image with minimal effort as long as quality that you are seeing here is good for your end result.

I think both have their place depending on what you are looking for at that point in time. I can see myself doing a QUICK Hanger shot to slap into Facebook or some sort of social media site and then using Litchi at times when I want something that is more permanent and of higher quality.

$87 dollars for a stitching program though sheesh.

supfly51 · Apr 17, 2017

As mentioned earlier, ive used it for a couple of weeks, ive never uploaded to Hangar servers instead chosen to use the hi res images from the sd card in Microsoft ICE to stitch

Robbyg · Apr 17, 2017

The 360 stuff does not look all that bad, it seems like a nice sharing tool. I often wonder when I look at this stuff and think "Are we providing these companies with great map data for free"

If we really do have a million drones flying around by the end of the year they could feasibly get maybe 20-30% of the interesting land masses mapped for free with websites like this, assuming it becomes popular enough! That translates into 10's of millions of dollars that Google would spend doing it the hard way and these guys get it for almost free and they get a lot better images.
I would say its a very smart move on their part.

Rob

Kai Mele · Apr 17, 2017

How do you leave the app if you don't want to land immediately after taking the 360 photos?

supfly51 · Apr 17, 2017

Kai Mele said:
How do you leave the app if you don't want to land immediately after taking the 360 photos?

It gives you the option to land or continue flying, you can fly while in the app or open DJI go to take over

rustydiver · Apr 17, 2017

So what do people think is the ideal height to stop at?

Robin · Apr 17, 2017

i guess there saying 300 feet

Kai Mele · Apr 17, 2017

supfly51 said:
It gives you the option to land or continue flying, you can fly while in the app or open DJI go to take over

Thank you for explaining.

Kestrel · Apr 17, 2017

rustydiver said:
So what do people think is the ideal height to stop at?

I tried it at 150 feet and it failed to process. On the website it recommends 300 feet if you go lower they state it might not stitch.

Racenviper · Apr 17, 2017

300 ft reduces the chance of parallax problems. It can only be solved by spinning the lens on the nodal point.

Racenviper · Apr 17, 2017

Curious, what is the size of the file in pixels? I create my own in PTGui the images files are in the range of 19396 x 9698

sdharris · Apr 17, 2017

regdawg said:
So does litchi or GO have this 360 feature?

GO does not have any automated 360 option which is surprising, even Yuneec have implemented 360 panorama with the Typhoon H. Litchi has an option to take 360 images with customisation around the number of images per row and I believe an option to change the exposure for when the camera is facing the ground. But Litchi does not have the ability to upload and process images in the way Hangar 360 does.

JoostGT3 · Apr 18, 2017

Litchi does give you the option to take the pictures; It wants to know the angle of the total shot, the amount of photos in horizontal direction and the amount of photos in vertical direction. As a result you will have the photos; you'll have to do the stitching and uploading yourself.

As far as I know, the DJI Go app offers comparable options, but only a number of presets.

Regarding the stitching; there are some tutorials on youtube on how to do it (look for "stitching interactive panorama" or so), but in any case you will need some software to view the panoramas in an interactive way. Facebook can do it, Google maps can do it (not sure if the preparations for those platforms are the same!). Hangar 360 offers the entire stitching and uploading to their website and making it viewable/shareable as a service; all you do is fly to a point and hit "go".

Edit; oh sorry, just now saw the other reply ...