360-degree photos on Facebook are a rage

Lately, the Facebook news feed has been taken over by those interactive photos, which instruct you to hold your phone up and move it around to view different parts of the photo. It’s called 360-degree photos and is quite fun.

If you want to upload one of yours, you don't need a special camera or even a 360-degree photo app. If you want to jump aboard the 360-degree camera movement, there is a list of cameras Facebook officially supports—Ricoh Theta S, Giroptic 360 Cam, Samsung Gear 360, LG 360 Cam, IC Realtech ALLie, 360Fly, and Panono. Each one of these cameras can capture your entire surroundings in a single shot but come at a steep cost in most instances.

Actually, you don’t even need that these apps either. Chances are you own a phone or tablet that will work with the new Facebook feature. According to Facebook, anything newer than an iPhone 4S, iPad Mini 2 or either iPad Air and iPad Pro model will work. For Android, using a Galaxy device newer than Samsung Galaxy S5 or Galaxy Note 3 will work. Owners of a non-Samsung Android device can use the Google Camera app.

Here’s what you need to do: take a panorama photo. That's it. You probably have a couple in your camera roll right now, just waiting to be uploaded and shared with the Facebook world. Or you can go one step further and use the Google Street View app to take a true 360-degree photo sphere and upload it. Now upload it the same way you upload other pictures on Facebook.