

However, equiangular cubemap format is not yet widely supported. That’s because YouTube is using the equiangular cubemap (EAC) format, like this: Equiangular cubemap formatĮquiangular cubemap is a projection developed by Google for 360 photos and videos that is more efficient than the standard equirectangular projection, which is why it is used by YouTube and incidentally, it is also used by the GoPro MAX (reviewed here). If you need to download your 360 video from YouTube, you may find that the video is broken up.

Here’s how to download 360 videos from YouTube in equirectangular format.
