Facebook Messenger Now Supports 360-Degree Photos, HD Videos

The already highly-rated Facebook Messenger app, which we here at PCMag accept called "one of the all-time means to conversation," is getting fifty-fifty improve with support for 360-degree photos and high definition-quality videos.

Now, when you share a panorama or 360-degree photo on Messenger, Facebook will "convert it to an immersive, green-eyed-inducing photo that your friends and loved ones can experience on mobile by tapping and dragging the photograph or by moving their phone," Messenger Production Managers Sean Kelly and Hagen Light-green wrote in a Tuesday blog postal service. If the recipient is viewing the 360-caste photo on the Spider web via Messenger.com, they'll be able to explore the scene by clicking and dragging on the image with their mouse.

The social network will add a compass icon to the correct side of 360-degree and panoramic photos shared via Messenger to make it piece of cake for recipients to identify them.

Meanwhile, you can also at present share Hard disk drive videos in Messenger. This new feature comes later on Facebook added support for 4K-resolution photos in Messenger last fall.

"Many smartphones capture videos with HD resolution, and now people on Messenger can send and receive Hard disk drive quality, 720p videos straight from their camera roll," Kelly and Green wrote.

Videos shared via Messenger have an HD or SD marker on the lower right side; yous can alter the quality by clicking that marker while in full-screen mode.

To endeavor out these new features, just be sure to update your Messenger app to the latest version. Facebook said back up for 360-degree photos in Messenger is bachelor "all over the world" on both iOS and Android. Support for HD-quality video is available in the US, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Singapore, South korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

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