Thankfully, there are powerful, free tools that allow you to easily view these 360° visuals and then give users the ability to explore them from every angle without being squashed and maintaining their originality in terms of aspect ratios and so on.
This project provides a web-based HTML5 player for displaying both 360° videos and images. It utilizes a configuration file for customization and supports HLS (m3u8) and DASH (mpd) streaming formats, as well as static images (jpg, png).
Pannellum is a lightweight, free, and open source panorama viewer for the web. Built using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and WebGL, it is plug-in free. Pannellum is developed on GitHub by Matthew Petroff. CDN via KeyCDN.
I am pleased to annonce that I almost finished working on a new version of the UI for Photo Sphere Viewer. This new design does not revolutionize the UX but adds a bit of modern touch.
A lightweight and high-performance 360° media viewer. Supports all major desktop browsers and mobile devices. Embraces standard web technologies and provides a powerful Javascript API.