Top-Down 360 video rotation is limited to horizontal axis only

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When viewing a Top Down 360 video, you can rotate on the horizontal axis (yaw) but not vertical axis (pitch). This is the only format I've seen so far that has this limitation, all other ones I've seen allow rotation on both axes.

To be specific, I'm referring to rotating the video via click and drag, not rotating your head (that works correctly).

Lucy

sbehzfxlobkklm
Hello, thank you for your feedback.

For 360 videos, SKYBOX currently doesn't support vertical drag (pitch rotation) when using click-and-drag. For 180 videos, you can drag both horizontally and vertically.

Feel free to contact us if you have other questions.

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Lucy

Thanks for replying! I am aware that it doesn't work, that's why I created this post, with the hope that it will be fixed. If the app can show the video correctly pitched up/down when moving my head, it makes sense that it should be potentially possible to do by dragging as well, like other video apps do.

The question then is, why is it going to stay this way instead of being on-par with the competition?

Lucy

sbehzfxlobkklm Hoby
Hello, thanks for your suggestion. We've noted down this request and will discuss and consider it for future updates.

Hoby

I agree that vertical orientation changes should be a development goal as well. It's disappointing to have that not work the same between side-by-side and top-and-bottom format videos.