I would like Memories to natively support 360-degree (Photo Sphere / equirectangular) photos directly inside the built-in Lightbox viewer.
Today, 360° panorama photos are no longer a rare curiosity or a niche format; they have become part of our everyday lives. Modern smartphones, action cameras, and consumer 360-cameras allow regular users to capture these images daily.
Currently, Memories displays these 360° photos as flat, stretched images on the timeline. To view them interactively, users have to manually click the three dots (...) and select "Open in Files" to use the "Photo Sphere Viewer" app, which severely disrupts the user experience for modern media types.
Suggested Solution
Since Memories already indexes EXIF/XMP metadata via memories:index, the app could detect 360° properties (such as ProjectionType: equirectangular).
If a photo is flagged as a 360° image, the Memories Lightbox could conditionally initialize an interactive panorama viewer (or integrate with the existing Nextcloud Photo Sphere Viewer library) instead of the standard flat <img> element.
Alternative solutions considered
Manually switching to the default Files app for every panorama image, which disrupts the seamless gallery experience that Memories provides.
Additional context
Many modern self-hosted galleries (like Immich) are starting to implement better media-type detection. Having native 360° image rotation directly on the timeline would make Memories the ultimate media suite for Nextcloud.
I would like Memories to natively support 360-degree (Photo Sphere / equirectangular) photos directly inside the built-in Lightbox viewer.
Today, 360° panorama photos are no longer a rare curiosity or a niche format; they have become part of our everyday lives. Modern smartphones, action cameras, and consumer 360-cameras allow regular users to capture these images daily.
Currently, Memories displays these 360° photos as flat, stretched images on the timeline. To view them interactively, users have to manually click the three dots (...) and select "Open in Files" to use the "Photo Sphere Viewer" app, which severely disrupts the user experience for modern media types.
Suggested Solution
Since Memories already indexes EXIF/XMP metadata via
memories:index, the app could detect 360° properties (such asProjectionType: equirectangular).If a photo is flagged as a 360° image, the Memories Lightbox could conditionally initialize an interactive panorama viewer (or integrate with the existing Nextcloud Photo Sphere Viewer library) instead of the standard flat
<img>element.Alternative solutions considered
Manually switching to the default Files app for every panorama image, which disrupts the seamless gallery experience that Memories provides.
Additional context
Many modern self-hosted galleries (like Immich) are starting to implement better media-type detection. Having native 360° image rotation directly on the timeline would make Memories the ultimate media suite for Nextcloud.