[Sohcahtoa82]

Dafuq? Why?

Photo Sphere was great for posting to Facebook, which would allow users to pan around the image.

And I imagine some people were using it to post 360-degree panoramas to Google Maps.

It wasn't perfect, sure, but it was good enough. I don't know why they would remove this.

[izacus]

Panorama mode replaces the functionality with better quality I guess.

[WirelessGigabit]

Does it though? I think because Panoramas flatten the image we skew it much more.

A photosphere was accurate no matter which part of the image you look at (bar any merging artifacts).