Dive summary:

• A new app available for 99 cents allows a smart phone to capture a 360-degree picture that includes data a receiving phone needs to recreate the view, which can be helpful on construction jobsites.
• Called 360 Panorama, the software uses a receiving phone's gyroscopic system to recreate the image as the sender saw it while taking the picture, standing in one place and turning around.
• The app performed very well on an iPhone 5, but it appears to need a relatively powerful Android phone to function.

From the article:

Since the app can't give a simple iPhone or Android camera a 360-degree lens, it works by using the phone's gyroscope and a 360-degree reference grid to piece together the camera’s relatively narrow view. ...