Samsung Gear 360, any stable software to allow usage for phones after S21?

[Daveymant]

I have the Gear 360 like also owning the Samsung Gear VR headset too. Both were abandoned by Samsung with NO warning and now it isn't possible to link the Gear 360 to a phone as before unless have a non updated S21. Has Samsung got any stable software to allow the Samsung S23 ultra to support andnuse the Gear 360 as mine is just a paperweight currently and it was a very good camera and brilliant way to capture 360 video and photos. Similarly any way to use S23 Ultra with the latest of the Gea VR headsets? Why are these abandoned??? 

[K2705_BM-08]

I think Samsung always abandons the "Gear" products because every Samsung Gear device isn't working to the latest phone models

[Daveymant]

The last support was the Galaxy S10 then maybe the S21 before it had an update which removed support. 

[K2705_BM-08]

Yes, I also realised that on my Gear IconX

[DJFulford1]

There is software that works for the Gear 360 on any phone. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CqX7Czz0RisiGcH5XP4sI3AOlcDoF4F2/view .This allowed my Samsung Galaxy S23 phone to connect to my old Gear 360 (2016), although it took some fiddling around to get it to work. It does not seem to connect with Bluetooth, although my Gear 360 was paired. It seemd to link via local Wi-Fi. I had to try Connect to a new Gear 360 (under three vertical dots on the top right) at times to make it work.
It can take 360 photos and videos, which are saved to the camera. The stitching of the two pictures is not 100% accurate.

There is a PowerShell script for stitching Gear 360 pictures and videos from GitHub at https://github.com/mikerr/360MultiStretch . The Bat file opens the PowerShell and runs the script. It takes some time to run, as a script is fairly slow, but does a good job of stitching. You need to get the photos off the Gear 360 using USB cable or reading the micro SD card. My laptop uses a larger SD card, but I have an adapter so I can read the micro one.