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How to add missing equirectangular photosphere metadata in Photoshop (CC 2015/2017/2018) By extracting the raw metadata from properly formatted panoramas, I was able to create an XMP template I can now import in Photoshop to make Facebook read any photo as a 360 photosphere. There are some software tools to do this, but I found a simpler method. I can view that this is missing from the raw metadata in Photoshop, but Photoshop doesn’t let you directly edit the raw meta data. Some googling revealed that Facebook requires images to have this meta tag to work: equirectangular Unfortunately I quickly discovered Facebook wasn’t automatically recognizing the screenshots from AW. I’ve been using that to upload 360 panoramic screenshots from ActiveWorlds, so I was looking forward to doing the same on Facebook. Flickr introduced a similar feature last December when it launched Flickr VR. Facebook recently rolled out the ability for anyone to upload a 360 panorama or photosphere that can be clicked through on desktop, viewed with certain VR headsets, or viewed by moving your device around on mobile.
