Sprayscape
A surprising open source app
Sprayscape is an app using both your phone’s camera and the gyroscope (detecting change of speed and orientation of the phone) to take 360 degree pictures.
Those virtual reality pictures will surprise you. If you change the way you touch the screen with your finger, the recorded pictures will be more or less neat. Take different elements, vary the neatness, the speed and look at your original and crazy pictures.
Sprayscape characteristics
- use the camera
- but also the gyroscope
- 360 degree pictures
- artistic and creative results
- first step toward V.R
- fun to use in a virtual-reality goggles (like Google Cardboard for example)
- open source code for developers
- sharing via social media
- free app
- does not require personal information, privacy protected
Simple to use for a fun-filled result
Sprayscape has the oddity to be very easy to use. A simple pressure of your finger on the touch-screen allows you to take an ellipse shaped picture of an element. By taking pictures of several elements, you are creating a patchwork. Vary the pressure and change the neatness of your picture, adding an artistic side to the app. This system reminds us of paint in cans (spray), probably inspiring the name of the app.
Another possibility to take pictures, continuously press the screen and turn as you want at your own speed. The result will be different.
These pictures are best looked at with a V.R goggles like the Cardboard from Google.
Perfect imperfect results
Google claims it, this app is « perfectly imperfect but it is also its strength. Sprayscape does not have the goal to give a perfect, smooth and aesthetic result. It is even quite the opposite. This app originality relies on the 360 degree picture with fuzzy and funny results.
Let’s remind us that the code of the app is in open source, available for any developers to improve it as he/she wants.
Let your imagination run free and take more and more surprising V.R pictures.
Category : Entertainment
Reviews (30)
Works great. Are the results somewhere on disk as equirect images? Samsung tab s3
Very bad you cannot capture a "360°" photo as described in description
this "experimental VR camera app" is kinda useless. Google hasn't even bothered to update it for 2 years
Open and crushes on Huawei. Fix needed! Pls!
Open and crash
The ca,era is inverted
Opens - crashes, opens - crashes, opens-crashes. You get the idea. Downloaded as the principle seemed great, I can't offer a review of the software as the software doesn't function. Hopefully an update will be released that actually works as it seems to have potential.
Opens and crashes. Please fix so I can update my review. Concept sound great.
It just force closes on startup, although it sounds like a cool concept and I'd like to try it out.
Opens and straight away crashes. All permissions allowed, Galaxy S8.
Fun app works on my samsung galaxy j7v...wish it would let me have the option of taking a normal photo sphere pano with the option to paint scape edit it...would be a great all in one app if it did that.
Great app if you like apps that crash the second they open..
Was good, then it randomly refused to open. Currently worthless.
Great, it has no practical uses, but works good. It doesn’t crash on my Pixel 2 XL…
Creative effect. Not what i was after but really cool.
Didn't work on Android 📱 nougat
Crashes immediately upon loading.
Opens then immediately crashes.
Its fuchin not working in my nokia 3
Looks awesome, can't use it, crashes upon opening on honor 8.
Always closed automatically after launched
Funny how this app by Google doesn't support the latest Google camera API and it's upsidedown on a Google Nexus 5X
App crashes on Moto M
Crashes immediately
the best
Clearly anyone giving this app 1 or 2 stars didn't read the description or watch the video. It is also possible they are just too stupid to use it correctly. Don't be like the 100's of stupid people who so far did not read about the app first and gave it only 1 star. I can't wait to see this app in a few updates. Definitely a keeper
The app wants to provide what Google already accomplished a few years ago with the photosphere in their camera app on Nexus devices. But it didn't improve or even live up to the photosphere, unfortunately. I hope they'll make it better over time, especially since 360°-cameras are getting cheaper
Stop freaking out and comparing this to Photospheres because they even say it's imperfect and messy and is meant to be a fun and creative toy. I do think though this has the right idea, if perfected, to be a great way to capture Photospheres without the tedious stitching and whatnot.
Why did Google even create a app like this. Get lots of blurry images and overall it looks like a big mess and don't think it will be useful for many even in vr.
Not working. As soon as I launch the app it gets closed by itself in very next second. But the concept looks good. I want to try it. Help me use it.