Panoramic photography can be said to be one of the fastest development of image technology on the Internet, although we can not say that it is full of 3D graphics technology, but because it is close to the real field shooting environment, you can use the mouse to drag the simulation of virtual scene roaming function, the panoramic photography has a wide range of applications, including: architecture, city landscape. Landscape, tourism, culture and the arts, business, science and technology, etc.. From the view of the Internet, the main application has the following aspects:

1 Architecture and urban landscape:

More and more websites use panoramic photography to introduce area and city landscape, almost all of the famous cities in the world have professional websites to use panoramic photography to attract visitors from all over the world. Most of these sites using GIS or graphic layout and panoramic photos, text introduces the way of direct links, comprehensive introduction of regional or urban construction, landscape, urban landscape and other human geography information. Such as the famous Sydney Opera House of Australia with flash animation and column links, detailed introduction of dozens of location and scenery buildings, compared with 2D pictures, more intuitive, more attractive.

2 virtual tourism:

Travel sites to the attractions of the plane layout and panoramic photos made of hot spots, can be directly from a scenic spot (panoramic photos) into the next spot, and guide visitors to achieve online virtual tourism. So you can stay at home to travel thousands of miles from the famous scenery. More many explorers, photographers put them on the tip of the iceberg, polar, volcanic, grassland, deep sea landscape with a panoramic view of the record, showing the magic of nature. As long as you have the patience, you can find a lot of traditional photography can not express the panoramic photos on the internet. Such as an explorer in the volcano erupted when photographed a magnificent view of lava flows.

3 culture and art:

In the cultural field, the most used is the art, science and technology, nature, archaeology museum, art gallery, etc.. They not only use cylindrical or spherical panoramic introduction of the venue construction, and do object panorama arts and crafts, painting, sculpture, 360 degree display artifacts such as 3D objects, you can drag the mouse gently picture onlookers object. You can also walk from one venue to another, and at the same time 360 degrees to watch all kinds of exhibits.

4 business and industrial technology:

Commercial web site with a panoramic view of the object for the goods, toys, the establishment of virtual shopping malls, commercial real estate panoramic display of architectural art and interior decoration, car sales business panoramic display of the latest car 3D outer landscape and so on. Such commercial web sites, in the application of panoramic view also occupies a considerable proportion of their direct purpose is to promote the sale of goods. In the field of science and technology research, the use of panoramic display technology, the latest results, such as the Mars rover 2, the use of a remote control shot on the surface of the Martian surface of the column, which is a very valuable panoramic photos.

No statistics in the world today many panoramic sites, in addition to profit for the purpose of commercial websites (including sales of panoramic photography hardware equipment manufacturer), a large number of public service website, they are not for profit, not only provide free software and experience panorama, also provide high quality panoramic works, including many highly innovative products.