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There are basically three types of viewers for spherical panoramas:
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* Java based Viewers run on any platform that supports Java.
 
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* Plugin based viewers require a plugin (Quicktime, Shockwave) to run and might be platform specific.
 
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* Stand alone viewers that are executables for a specific platform.
 
  
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=== Java based Viewers ===
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== HTML5 based Viewers ==
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==== Free ====
 
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* First and until now most versatile is [[PTViewer]] developped originally by [[Helmut Dersch]] and now maintained and enhanced by [[Fulvio Senore]]
 
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* [[Immervision]] G2 - very promising but still beta.
 
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==== Commercial ====
 
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There are some commercial Java based viewers. Most of them are either a PTViewer clone or less functional.
 
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=== Plugin based Viewers ===
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=== Free ===
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==== Apple Quicktime ====
 
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[[Quicktime]] is available for Apple Macintosh and Windows. Requieres panorama in QT movie format. ([[Panocube]] converts from equirectangular to .mov on Windows)
 
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==== Shockwave ====
 
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[[SPi-V]] is a very sophisticated and smoothe viewer based on Macromedia Shockwave that handles panoramas completeley in graphics card memory.
 
  
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=== Stand alone Viewers ===
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* [[Syborg Rooms]] exports virtual tours in flash and html5. Based on the users device the export shows the supported format.
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==== Windows ====
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* [http://www.vrhabitat.com/#vr5 VR5 Pano Viewer]. You need to prepare the images to him (cube faces in 2 resolutions: 1024px & 480px. Can redirect to your standard player in case the browser is not on an iPad/iPhone. (Free for personal use.)
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[[FSPViewer]] is a free hardware accelerated stand alone viewer by [[Fulvio Senore]]
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* [http://pannellum.org/ Pannellum] Very lightweight HTML 5 open source viewer featuring embedding support, configuration using URL parameters, title and author information, multiresolution support, and full screen support among other things.
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* [http://leandigo.github.io/leanorama/ Leanorama]. A free and open source viewer for Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari, iPad, iPhone, Android 3+). Allows simple definition of virtual tours in JavaScript. Will stretch cube faces of any size to 1024*1024px - so larger panoramas probably won't make sense. Documentation and download on [https://github.com/leandigo/leanorama GitHub]
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=== Commercial ===
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* [[Syborg Rooms]] Pro Version
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* [http://krpano.com/ KRPano] is a Flash 9 & 10 & HTML5 based panorama viewer with a wide range of configuration options. These include different projections such as stereographic ('little planet'), fisheye, Vedutismo, and 'architectural'. It can handle cubefaces, equirects and QTVR .mov files, and it can embed other media including audio and FLV videos into panoramas.
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== Stand alone Viewers ==
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|+Stand alone Viewers
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|Description
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|Lizence
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|Windows
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|Linux
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|iOS
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|Android
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|[[FSPViewer]]
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|A free hardware accelerated stand alone viewer by [[Fulvio Senore]] that supports ICC color profiles
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|Freeware
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|[[panoglview|PanoGLView]]
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|A is an Open Source hardware accelerated stand alone viewer for [[Equirectangular Projection]] images
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|GPL
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|[[PTViewer]]
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|The original standalone viewer created by [[Helmut Dersch]] in C for X-Windows available from one of the [[mirrors]] (Linux) or the 3.2 version in compiled Java from [http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ his page]
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|[[DevalVR|Videopanoramas Player]]
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|A stand alone version panorama viewer.
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|Freeware
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|[[freepv]]
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|A standalone hardware accelerated [[QTVR]] viewer as well as a plugin.
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|OpenSource
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|[https://github.com/lazarus-pkgs/panini Panini]
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|An open source panoramic image viewer and perspective tool for all Qt platforms, including Linux, Windows, OSX.  It can display files in many panoramic formats. Your video driver must support OpenGL version 1.5, 2.0 for full functionality. Get Panini at [https://github.com/lazarus-pkgs/panini], [[Build Panini on MacOSX|build on macOS]] or [[Build Panini on Other Unixes|build on other unixes]].
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|GPL
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|[https://bitbucket.org/kfj/pv lux]
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|FOSS multiplatform image and panorama viewer. openGL-based, versatile, configurable, scriptable. Also supports viewing, stitching, fusing of many PTO files. Readymade binaries available at [https://bitbucket.org/kfj/pv/downloads].
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|GPLv3
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|[http://www.panorado.com Panorado]
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|A full-featured image viewer/browser supporting panoramas (JPEG & QTVR).
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|Shareware
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|[http://www.immervision.com/en/multimedia/multimedia_products/multimedia_products_2_6.php PURE Player for Windows]
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|A free standalone version of PURE Player viewer for Windows OS that supports cylindrical, spherical and cubic panoramas.
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|Freeware
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|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xojot.vrplayer VR Media Player - 360° Viewer]
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|For Android is a free app. Open 360° picture and movie files from local storage and from online locations. It supports Google DayDream headsets.
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|Free to use
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|[http://www.itunes.com/apps/ipano iPano]
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|For iPhone and iPad, awesome pano viewing app. Lets you keep a high res portfolio (8192 x 4096).
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|[http://www.pangeasoft.net/pano/pangeavr/index.html PangeaVR]
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|For iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch is an app that plays panoramas (max. 2048x1024px equirects on iPhone/iPod, 4096x2048 on iPad) using OpenGL. The standard version of PangeaVR is free, the Pro version (which can store panoramas locally for offline viewing) costs $5.99.
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|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adec.apps.release.panpro PPV360HD] (aka Professional Panoramic Viewer 360 HD)
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|A commercial full-featured Android (from 2.0) App by Andridea (author is Andrea de Carolis) to view Panorama up to 2.27GigaPixel (max 65000x32000) on tablets/smartphones with Kinetic Rotation, full pinch and zoom, tagging. Take a jpeg (equirectangular/cylindrical, full or semi panoramic) and processes it with its own multi-tiles generator, and view them offline with its hardware accelerated 3d viewer. User can change FOV, vert/horiz degree and many options ([https://sites.google.com/site/andrewdc09/Software/ppv360hd developer site]). There'is also a [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adec.apps.release.pandemo free demo] available, with some limitations. Developers offer the possibility to build Virtual Tour App.
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[[Category:Software:Platform:Linux]]
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[[Category:Software:Platform:Mac OS X]]
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[[Category:Software:Platform:Windows]]
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[[Category:Software:Platform:Mobile]]
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== External Links ==
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* https://360photo-to-video.com/360-photo-viewers-comparison.html shows some working examples of a number of different web-based panorama players.
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* https://veer.tv/blog/top-13-panorama360-degree-photo-viewers/ just another comparison

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HTML5 based Viewers

Free

  • Syborg Rooms exports virtual tours in flash and html5. Based on the users device the export shows the supported format.
  • VR5 Pano Viewer. You need to prepare the images to him (cube faces in 2 resolutions: 1024px & 480px. Can redirect to your standard player in case the browser is not on an iPad/iPhone. (Free for personal use.)
  • Pannellum Very lightweight HTML 5 open source viewer featuring embedding support, configuration using URL parameters, title and author information, multiresolution support, and full screen support among other things.
  • Leanorama. A free and open source viewer for Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari, iPad, iPhone, Android 3+). Allows simple definition of virtual tours in JavaScript. Will stretch cube faces of any size to 1024*1024px - so larger panoramas probably won't make sense. Documentation and download on GitHub

Commercial

  • Syborg Rooms Pro Version
  • KRPano is a Flash 9 & 10 & HTML5 based panorama viewer with a wide range of configuration options. These include different projections such as stereographic ('little planet'), fisheye, Vedutismo, and 'architectural'. It can handle cubefaces, equirects and QTVR .mov files, and it can embed other media including audio and FLV videos into panoramas.

Stand alone Viewers

Stand alone Viewers
Name Description Lizence Windows macOS Linux iOS Android
FSPViewer A free hardware accelerated stand alone viewer by Fulvio Senore that supports ICC color profiles Freeware x x x
PanoGLView A is an Open Source hardware accelerated stand alone viewer for Equirectangular Projection images GPL x x x
PTViewer The original standalone viewer created by Helmut Dersch in C for X-Windows available from one of the mirrors (Linux) or the 3.2 version in compiled Java from his page ? x x x
Videopanoramas Player A stand alone version panorama viewer. Freeware x
freepv A standalone hardware accelerated QTVR viewer as well as a plugin. OpenSource x
Panini An open source panoramic image viewer and perspective tool for all Qt platforms, including Linux, Windows, OSX. It can display files in many panoramic formats. Your video driver must support OpenGL version 1.5, 2.0 for full functionality. Get Panini at [1], build on macOS or build on other unixes. GPL x x x
lux FOSS multiplatform image and panorama viewer. openGL-based, versatile, configurable, scriptable. Also supports viewing, stitching, fusing of many PTO files. Readymade binaries available at [2]. GPLv3 x x x
Panorado A full-featured image viewer/browser supporting panoramas (JPEG & QTVR). Shareware x
PURE Player for Windows A free standalone version of PURE Player viewer for Windows OS that supports cylindrical, spherical and cubic panoramas. Freeware x
VR Media Player - 360° Viewer For Android is a free app. Open 360° picture and movie files from local storage and from online locations. It supports Google DayDream headsets. Free to use x
iPano For iPhone and iPad, awesome pano viewing app. Lets you keep a high res portfolio (8192 x 4096). ? x
PangeaVR For iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch is an app that plays panoramas (max. 2048x1024px equirects on iPhone/iPod, 4096x2048 on iPad) using OpenGL. The standard version of PangeaVR is free, the Pro version (which can store panoramas locally for offline viewing) costs $5.99. Commercial x
PPV360HD (aka Professional Panoramic Viewer 360 HD) A commercial full-featured Android (from 2.0) App by Andridea (author is Andrea de Carolis) to view Panorama up to 2.27GigaPixel (max 65000x32000) on tablets/smartphones with Kinetic Rotation, full pinch and zoom, tagging. Take a jpeg (equirectangular/cylindrical, full or semi panoramic) and processes it with its own multi-tiles generator, and view them offline with its hardware accelerated 3d viewer. User can change FOV, vert/horiz degree and many options (developer site). There'is also a free demo available, with some limitations. Developers offer the possibility to build Virtual Tour App. Commercial x

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