Old school readers will be familiar with the movie below, but with over 1400 posts some of our favourite movies have got lost and the following is one of them:
Amazingly easy to make it lead on to the following Worlds within Worlds clip:
Worlds within Worlds: Using Panoramas for Sense of Location and Place from digitalurban on Vimeo.
In short, embedding panoramas in a x/y/z space allows movies to be created where the camera automatically pans around a scene, it can be done in any 3D software.
I find these dramatically distorted fish-eye views uncongenial. The view is very unlike that provided by being there. A much better visualization is, for example, the Apple 360 deg viewer.