Play 360 files in your browser
The 360° video a GoPro MAX records, kept as two tracks of cube faces. Watch one right here and look all around it, without GoPro Player. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your 360° video plays as a sphere you look around in, stitched or put together as it plays.
- Drag to look around • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Play and pause • Drag the timeline • Step frame by frame
- Flat video • The picture as the camera keeps it
- Export • Save the view as PNG or the frame as a 360° photo
About 360
GoPro's MAX and MAX 2 record 360° video as .360 files. Each is an MP4 with two HEVC video tracks, GoPro's sensor data and the sound, often in four channels that follow where you look in GoPro's apps.
GoPro keeps the sphere as the six faces of an equi-angular cube, three in each track: the left, front and right faces in one, and the bottom, back and top faces turned a quarter in the other. The faces the two lenses meet in hold a narrow band from each lens, so an app can blend them.
Filepeek decodes both tracks and puts them together frame by frame, then turns the cube faces into the sphere on your graphics card, the bands blended where the lenses meet. Drag to look around, pinch or scroll to zoom, and Flat video shows the faces as they're stored. Export saves the view as a PNG, the frame on show as a 360° photo, and the video as it came.
GoPro MAX 360° video
.360
Format
- MIME type
- video/mp4
- Made by
- GoPro
- Released
- 2019
Inside the file
- Container
- MP4 with two video tracks
- Video
- HEVC, three cube faces a track
- Projection
- Equi-angular cube map
- Sound
- AAC, and four channel 360° audio
Opens in every browser
Filepeek plays a .360 and turns it into a sphere in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, decoding HEVC on its own where the browser can't. On their own, browsers download it.
- YouChromePlays through Filepeek
- YouEdgePlays through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxPlays through Filepeek
- YouSafariPlays through Filepeek
Apps that open 360
- WindowsGoPro Player • GoPro Quik
- MacGoPro Player
- iPhone and iPadGoPro Quik
- AndroidGoPro Quik
Questions
How do I watch a .360 file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek a 360. It plays as a sphere: drag to look around, pinch or scroll to zoom, and Flat video shows its cube faces as they're stored.
Why does a .360 look like strips of squares?
A .360 keeps the sphere as six cube faces in two video tracks, which players that don't know GoPro's layout show as they are, or show only one track of.
Can I save a frame as a 360° photo?
Yes. Pause where you want and choose Save frame as 360° photo in Export. It saves an equirectangular JPEG that says it's a 360° photo, which most 360° viewers open.
Does it play the 360° audio?
It plays the stereo sound. The four channel 360° audio, which turns with the view in GoPro's apps, isn't played.