Thanks Google. Great sample of how the poorest quality business imagery can be achieved. I guess it's just your way of saying F U to the pro photographers who helped you launch and build this program. You make no mention that the Ricoh Theta S yields inferior, noisy, unsharp results. Who is that schmuck? An actor that works for meals from a diner? People pay their mortgages and put their kids through school with professional business/commercial photography. You asked us if we'd do this full time and change our own businesses when we first helped you launch the program. Now you cheapen the entire project you started almost daily. Your people care nothing about those that created the content you have on your platform now. You truly use people. I guess your aiming to make panoramic photography less lucrative than working at McDonalds. Google treats people who provide free content for their platform like utter shit.

Google - come on! If you're going to promote the Street View Trusted Pros, then show an actual professional photo shoot being done with the professional equipment YOU require. This video shows a hobbyist taking some selfie panos of his girlfriend cooking dinner, using a very low-end "toy" camera. This camera in the video does not even output the level of quality REQUIRED of the CERTIFIED Street View Trusted pros. If you are a business owner out there please do not take this video as a representation of the professional service you will get when you do hire a Street View Trusted pro. Google marketing really screwed this up BAD!

I Shoot with Canon 1DX MKII, started previously with 7d, 5DMKII, and all my customers love my work. The problem? No problem Stop crying and start selling. Learn to sale your product! Google it´s making viral 360º photos! take advantage! I used even the IRIS from NTECH, have sold it for the new canon. I knew my path was quality!!! but also have the Samsung Gear 360 for previewing a virtual tour! About Charles Amstrong, I met him in Amsterdam and there are no protection for us the trusted photographers, but looking from another angle this is fantastic. I love to show a customer my work, and it´s even easier to sell when somebody does a tour like Charles shows in the previous link! Thanks to Google for allowing us to increase the sales.

So instead of promoting high-end-panorama-photography Google spends a lot of money by shooting a film, where a Local guide shoots a restaurant for free with the lowest possible quality and gets 'paid' by a plate of pasta?! Well done Google Street View Trusted Team - this is not what you promised us in Quebec and Amsterdam when talking about the awarness of our superb quality that we provide as Pro's.

or you can hire this dude who would lead you to believe that a tour shot with a Theta with zero post processing or adjustments qualifies as Pro

I would love to do that in my small town (Parakan & Temanggung-Indonesia) as soon as possible if I have a 360 camera, starting with street view.

That tour wasn't created with a Theta S... The restaurant google listing does not have a tour... So we can't see the awesome work he did with that crappy Theta either. The tour in the example was shot with a DSLR and you're blatantly misrepresenting that the tour was shot with a Theta.

It's quite a hard adjustment to see our skills in some way being arguably devalued by the Ricoh. However, I do feel that with the approval of Ricoh, we now have an opportunity to reach more businesses, including those with smaller budgets who might be less concerned with the difference between a Ricoh and DSLR. So on an engagement level, this opens up the market to us. Customers can still have the choice to choose Ricoh or DSLR, and they get lesser quality for their lesser cost, but ultimately they may be able to access a service which has been inaccessible for whatever reason up until now. As a marketing tool to communicate our process in a quick and simple way, I like this video. I do agree that all the dots aren't connected, but surely the only people who know whether the listing is real is us? We know the system, we work in it and we play to the rules. The client just wants a tour to showcase, that's it, is it not? A more discerning business owner may want a closer working relationship, but some may not. There could also be huge benefits for poor areas and poor countries. With the price of the Ricoh being so affordable, there's now a way to serve lower income groups (maybe not us as pros, or maybe not very often). The first step for them might not be about quality but about simply access. So for a global company, like Google, this makes their product more open, which I think deserves to be celebrated. What use is a Golden Chalice apart from for those who can afford it? (not us if we're working just for food - maybe some cash changing hands would have been a useful signal in the video, but then the may figure that paying for a service is assumed). The world is entitled to be online and outside of our Western world, give it a few years as tech progresses and prices drop, developing nations and poorer communities can use 360s to promote income and this could help stimulate local growth and provide a new platform for people to promote their local area, to attract tourists, to generate more income, to share with the world so these places can be seen and blogged about, shared and explored. Yes, it''s a drop in quality on one end, but on the top end, does it affect us too much if we're selling on quality and we know our job as experts? Surely this is an example of open tech having the potential for wider implications? I have worked with charities and the third sector for years and there are so many venues that I would gladly help get online for a smaller fee by using a Ricoh, because it gets them online and helps increase their exposure and as a charity they can hopefully reach and help more people. Which is great. Youth centres, care homes, skate parks. Even local heritage spots that can benefit by opening up access to via 360s. Spaces that maybe aren't open for long, are hard to find the decision makers for or are supported by community groups and enthusiastic locals who need something simple and affordable. Now they can share the spaces they love in their area for the world at an affordable price, or partner up with someone who has a Ricoh. Quick shots at events purely for the fun of it, whatever. We're part of a spectrum of requirements and interests and we can fit in anywhere we like. p.s. I admire the work of lots of the pros and recognise your names, I'm not wanting to knock anyone's ability and I can relate to the concerns, I just think there are also opportunities beyond our usual sphere of influence.

I just became Trusted! Where can I get one of those sweet shirts?

Googles suggestion to each business owner the virtual tour is for free is like a hit in the face of each Trusted Photographer.

so all this 360 kit just gets smaller and smaller .. :)

Or use a professional photographer with a pro DSLR camera to capture high quality 360 panos

The theta s is 12mpixels. Google standard for pro shooting is 14mpixels minimum, even with the change soon to be.

The Theta S is a GREAT toy. With care and the right environment it can produce 360 panoramas that look pretty good in a mobile phone view... but it's still the equivalent of a compact 'snap' camera. Ah well, it was always clear that Google wasn't going to capture the entire world with nothing but professional photographers. This is about evolution, not stasis.

It's Awesome:-)

Ricoh theta v is good options for Google Street View and business related???

Grande opportunità per le aziende di mostrare il meglio al momento giusto!

To set the record straight, the virtual tour shown in this video was shot using a Theta S with HDR mode (accessible via the SV app if your Theta has the latest firmware). Whether the imagery was actually published in this case or not seemed irrelevant for our promo video, but we're happy to publish the imagery to prove that there’s no misrepresentation at play. You can find the actual virtual tour, now published here: goo.gl/OcOv6R Note that there is zero doctoring/manipulation applied to these 360 photos. They have simply been published using the SV app, connections have been manually created using the SV app, and geometry has been automatically derived for depth (which is part of auto-connect). Within the next week, we’re also debuting a feature in the app which allows you to then transfer rights to the business owner while still onsite. I'm pleased that many of you were confident that this imagery was shot using a DSLR and/or that it was later manually enhanced in any way, as that's a good test to pass. But to be clear, neither of those things took place. This video accurately represents the workflow. In the coming months, we'll be looking at ways to make this sort of imagery even sharper around the periphery of the lenses and enabling more optimized lighting/levels using some automated services, so this is just the beginning. But to be clear, we still envision a future for DSLR shoots too. The two can co-exist in a market that offers a spectrum of options to clients. Many prospects will feel that Theta S imagery is sufficient - which you may not want to disregard simply because you know that better quality can be achieved. Others will always be drawn to the higher quality capabilities of DSLR camera systems. Obviously, our intentional promotion of the new, on-site publishing capabilities has struck a chord with some of you. Note that we've heard your concerns and value your perspective on the implications of 360 cameras joining our lineup of supported hardware systems.

He should had gone to a pub! Cheers!!

Very nice!

Great video.

hey I have a question is there eny way to upload you 360 photos via pc in stead with you phone?

too big backpack for that camera )

is it a free service?

And that's how the work ended up being for free.

Il Virtual Tour di un'azienda pubblicata su Google Maps è sicuramente un valore aggiunto per la propria Brand Identity

Pasta forever !

Reporting in!

where can i find a tutorial to do this street view with the Rocoh Theta?

So you're telling me that if I sign up for whatever this mumbo jumbo is about, I get a date?

Wow nice lady. Cooked for a photographer come to work.

It's a shame!!! That the Street View team uses all their marketing to promote Theta-photographers working for a plate of pasta... Correct the title - "Hire a Street View trusted amateur photographer or agency "...

WTF? Seriously the crappy Theta S is now certified by Google for high quality business panos? Somehow i cant belive it.

I also use Ricoh Theta S, really great, fast and light camera :D

Does anyone know who is the guy?

I have applied to this and heard nothing for a couple days. The application did not require any info so far... I dont get who is actually eligible? Am i good enough for this? How do i know and how do i improve? Everything associated with google and 360 photos are so confusing. Google + profile + local guides + maps contributions + google photos... Can this thing be cleared up once and for all? I would really like to make 360 photography more than a hobby...

Fantasy world. Despite what it shows in this video producing a 360 walk through for Google Maps is not that easy, unless, of course you want out of focus images, poorly linked 360's and zero thought in planning to showcase your business to the world. A real professional will not be using a cheap 360 camera that produces third rate images.

Nice products by google

in the playlist, Na lista de reprodução, en la lista de reproducción

Great video! thanks.

Neat!

Song?

This video is a joke!

Mai local guide hoon sir mujhe iski aawasakta hai kaise milegi

This looks like a parody but is uploaded by Google Maps? I'm confused

This is the end of GSVT.

I also want this job any one tell me how to be a photographer in google in Mumbai india

Пришел с целым фоторюкзаком, а снял на свистульку))

Espléndido!!

My clients never fed me...just saying

I need job please help me

work for pasta

If you need a Google Certified Photographer, feel free to contact me directly.

Who is the guy??

It is not a photographic macchian and then the results are bad . The restaurant taken over by a RICHO , can never show good customers

no nadir ;)

Looks like a default skin

I caught something else in this... she says "Hey... So, do you need anything from me?" He says "NO! NO! Just ahh... here..." Then she asks him if he is hungry... He says *starving!* ... He is lucky he got some pasta out of the deal. At no point do they mention that this is a paid service. *Starving* Google Trusted Pro Photographers...

Why i dont see this tour live on maps at that customer ? Why you promoting something whats fake? And why that business is not verified..holy moly.....this is not profesionall marketing but piece of crap...

As a Google Trusted Photographer: This video does not portray a Street View Trusted Pro Photographer or Agency. It features an actor who doesn't even use the right equipment for this program. The content in this video is highly misleading to customers of the Google Street View Trusted Program. It also falsely portrays what it's like to perform a photo shoot and to upload imagery properly using a moderated process. I call your bluff Google Maps. Take this piece of utter trash down and stop disrespecting actual "Pro Photographers". Cheers, Tom.

tetha pro?????? buhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Чтоб вам рекламу снимали такие же профессионалы как вы показываете профессиональных фотографов.

Google Approved my Fifty 360 Photo I also filled form And Also requested for Badge. How Many Days I have to wait For badge ?? please Help if anyone know

Les arde el culo pensar que una simple cámara les robará el negocio!. Sean más creativos y luchen contra las nuevas tecnologías!

this is bad