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Parallax

The apparent shift of nearby objects with changing viewpoint — the main cause of visible seams.

Term
parallax
Also
parallax error

Hold a finger in front of your face and close each eye in turn: the finger jumps, the background barely moves. That is parallax — and exactly what happens with a 360° camera whose lenses sit a few centimetres apart.

During stitching the images must match in their overlapping regions. Distant objects do so easily, near ones do not: they appear offset in the two frames, producing breaks, duplications or blurred edges.

In practice that means keeping your distance. A good metre from walls, furniture and people, and never placing the camera in tight corners or doorframes. What is too close cannot be repaired afterwards.