Want to get 1 million+ views on Google Map in less than 3-month and show your logo everywhere
like this - on an interactive 360 walking tour?
This blue line on google is called Google Street View Path.
Don't confuse this with the recent Google Street View Photo Path - the blue dotted line.
The SOLID Blue Line is always going to get priority on Google Map and get you the best
exposure as Street View photographers or Virtual Tour Professionals.
My previous tutorial with Insta360 Titan and Onewheel is the most high-end approach to
create google street view paths.
Titan or Insta360 Pro 2 is very expensive.
And you need to use a fancy computer to stitch them in post-production and upload it on Google
- which usually takes a long time.
To create almost 100 thousands+ 8K resolution high quality 360 photos in less than 3 months
will be impossible - especially, this is not a full-time job.
Google is not going to pay you, but your exposure is going to get you hired.
This is a volume game more so than a quality game.
And today, I will show you my Google Street View setup for around a thousand dollars to
generate 100 thousand 360 photos in no time.
Want to learn my secret?
hey what's up everybody it's your boy hugh here from creatorup we just have a nice brunch
and now we are in the Topanga canyon hike the hike the trailhead and today we are
gonna do a google street view of the entire hiking path we're gonna map this Topanga
canyon is currently not mapped on google map yet so we gotta do a google street view path
and we'll discuss the best setup to do this kind of hike it's easy it's easy to like capture
easy to upload and no stitching no work and the answer is actually right in front of me
is this camera called Labpano Pilot One EE this one uh have the best like balance
quality like good image quality in full 8k uh in through the google street view path
so take a video and upload the regular on google street view it's really easy it's okay
quality not as good as the titan but as good as the Insta360 Pro 2 if not better so uh we gotta test
it and we gotta hike the hiking trail to see how it works as you see i am attaching it
on this head so we can level it uh because we try to keep it as level as possible uh
when you wear the backpack you actually gonna lean forward a little bit to level this whole
setup and the next thing we want to do is you want to get it as high as possible so
we can put an idea patch to patch me out and patch Keeley out because she's gonna hike next
to me uh and then by the way this is a monopole backpack it's really good right we can put
a tripod right here water uh this is the Ricoh Theta Z1 so this using the two
really good still uh so we're gonna use this to take 360 photo of the past whenever it's
lookout this is a good location we're going to use this and this is for the Street View path
inside my backpack, we still have we also have the battery pad right here to weight the camera
down the way the backpack down so we're more stable so go ahead we gotta wear it i gotta
look super nerdy uh other people are thinking that i'm crazy i have a big stick coming out
my back but that is actually the best way to do like hassle-free google street view
path so you can put your logo everywhere else in public park and it's like it's amazing
and also if you have the google map on this path whenever accidents happen people can
use your photo to find out where the people lost and they can go for a rescue so there's
many way to use uh the street view path so now i'm gonna go for a hike come with me
So I almost walk down to cliff - but I am okay.
The lesson to learn is, pay attention to your surroundings when you are doing Google Street
View walking path.
As you see here, we hike all the way to the end of dead horse trail - it is a pretty intense
hike that tourists or regular Hollywood folks will not go.
We are the first to map that part of the Topanga Canyon hike - so our logo is everywhere on
Topanga.
There are still lots of opportunities to map, even in popular travel destinations like Malibu
and Topanga Canyon.
I am sure your home town is waiting for you to explore.
To easily have your logo in the 360 photos, connect your Pilot One EE to your computer,
and copy a 500 px by 500 px PNG circular logo into the watermarks folder of the pilot one.
Go to Settings, scroll to the bottom logo, turn on the bottom logo, set the size of the
logo, and make sure you select the logo you just transferred over.
Now, let's learn how to set up your camera to capture the best virtual tour without any
post-production works.
First, go to the camera and select Google Street View Video.
Pick the gear icon to make sure your settings is exactly like mine.
Frame Rate to 7fps so you don't send Google too many photos.
BitRate is the highest option.
Countdown to 15s so you have enough time to put on your monopole backpack.
Fragment Storage set to 10-min - longer time will take longer to upload on Google and take
Google longer time to process.
Now tap the Pro Mode and set the stitch focus to infinity.
In the future firmware upgrade, the camera will enable optical flow on stitching Google
Street View path as well just like in 360 photo mode.
It will make the stitching even better.
EV I set to +1 as my unit tends to take darker video - especially under trees.
I am indoor now, so there is no GPS.
Let's go outside.
Now you see the icon on the top left of the screen turn blue.
The reason why Pilot One EE is the best Google Street View Path camera is b/c the camera
comes with the STRONGEST GPS receiver - stronger than Insta360 Pro 2, Theta Z1, or ONE X2.
So you won't lose GPS signal even under thick trees and buildings.
You do get what you pay for.
Now go ahead a capture, and let's meet back in the house.
Open Gallery, your street view capture is here.
You can check on the info by tapping the dot dot dot.
Hit the middle upload icon, pick share to street view.
Make sure blur faces and blur license plates are checked.
Make sure the google account is your google account.
If this is your first time, connect the camera to your google account and allow the permission
on Google so Labpano can release street view photos for you.
Now go ahead and hit upload, confirm the warning message and wait.
Now upload is done.
Go back you see the camera tell you the street view is processing.
It will usually take 1 - 2 days for google to finish processing.
You can take a look at my other successful upload here.
This one is hiking Yosemite Half Dome.
If you hit the delete icon, you see you can actually manage the virtual tour here - by
deleting the entire tour on Google.
That's it.
It is that easy!
Labpano Pilot One is another underrate 360 camera that can reach 8K quality with only
internal stitching.
If you are an artist who hates sitting in front of the computer and spending hours stitching,
this camera is also a great option.
Pilot One EE is also a great 360 Livestream camera which I already cover it in-depth in
this review video.
In late 2021 and upcoming 2022, Labpano Pilot one EE has some exciting updates that make
this camera even more competitive as a mid-tire prosumer 360 camera - a step up from Insta360
ONE X2 or Qoocam 8K.
You are looking at a completely in-camera stitch result using their latest optical flow
system - no Mistika VR or even a computer!
The optical flow stitching option is now officially available to all Labpano models, including
Pilot Era, Pilot One, and the latest EE.
Let me walk you tho some other exciting updates on 360 Photo Virtual Tour now.
The first one is HDR 360 photo for both Pilot Tour and regular Virtual Tour capture.
This HDR workflow is completely dummy-proof.
You only need to pick your scene - indoor or outdoor.
And the camera will capture and merge it for you.
No editing is necessary.
If you go to the gear icon to look at some advanced settings, you see this new handy
feature called Hide Photographer.
This is a very useful feature when you are working in a dangerous location that you are
worried about thefts will grab and run your camera when you are too far away.
Our team lost the camera once in India during a job while the capture team was hiding from
the camera.
This new feature can eliminate that.
Here you see the new Optical Flow feature.
Turning it on will dramatically increase the stitch quality of Pilot One.
This is the only camera I know that has internal optical flow stitching - which is a very computational
heavy option for a small camera to handle.
They will also roll out some AI-based Virtual Tour features in 2022 that will calculate
distances and help create 3D models for tours.
When those features are rolling out, I will review them and make a further tutorial.
AI is the future of 360 Virtual Tour creation - and I am happy to see developers are using
machine learning to simplify repetitive tasks in the 360 industry.
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