PhotoSpheres

Photospheres are a way of displaying 360 photos in Altspace.

All the skyboxes are 360 (or spherical) images.

You can take your own 360 images and replace the skybox, or display as a photosphere.

A Photosphere in front of a Model in front of a Skybox

Cameras

Usually two fisheye lenses, shots stitched to one 360 image

Combination 3d or 360 camera.

No, I don't know how to get 3d into Unity/Altspace.

An Altspace Avatar can 'step inside' a photosphere to view from where the camera was; and see the photo surrounding oneself.

This is a simple way of giving multiple realistic views, rather than building large scale photogrammetry models.

Remember how the surface of a model can only be seen from one direction?

If we just applied a photo texture to a sphere,

we would see the photo only from the OUTSIDE

(like a Christmas bauble).

To see a photo from the INSIDE, we need an 'inverted sphere', where the triangles are

reversed. Not available directly in Unity -

fri a friendly Altspacer (ProxCyde) created me an ' 'inverted sphere' package. I can pass on.

1) Import 'inverted sphere' package

2) Import 360 photo as a texture asset

3) Place sphere in scene

4) Apply texture to sphere

5) Upload to Altspace in template or kit (switch OFF collider)

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