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by ckz 990 days ago
I love this! My father created a panorama with walkable waypoints like this for the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a few other historic sites back in the Shockwave/Flash days (something like 2001). Turned out to be some of my early learnings in building with Flash.

I also actually took my own series of photos on a whim a few weeks ago with the intention of DIY stitching my own pano and used to love using Microsoft's "old" (08-10) Seadragon/Photosynth tech.

I'd be very curious to learn more about your JS implementation. :)

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That's so cool--and it's interesting to see how the 360 image tours have evolved over the years. I'm hoping gaussian splatting or nerfs will do better soon. You could try your photos in nerfstudio and see what type of results you're able to get: https://github.com/nerfstudio-project

Threejs has been great to work with. It's pretty simple orbitcontrols but the occluders on the dollhouse for the cursor in first-person view are a little more complex. I hope to share the codebase, but it's definitely still a sketch instead of the full picture--right now with a lot of adhoc parts for this specific tour for the vfx.