I recently got a Gear 360 (affordable 360 camera from Samsung) and it's easy to see why Google would focus on 180 instead: the quality of the image is seriously

I recently got a Gear 360 (affordable 360 camera from Samsung) and it's easy to see why Google would focus on 180 instead: the quality of the image is seriously weak in 360 and cannot be much better in 180 due to the device having only one camera facing either way, there is no way to preview photos without the phone, and a lot of the time (concerts, sports hyperlapse, landscape shots) you only want the front view anyway. That being said, I still like the idea of 360 for being able to capture the full scope of a place (like a studio apartment I shall soon move out of) easily - though maybe Google's could just do panorama easily.