

This format is most convenient because it contains the entire panorama in a single 2x1 image, and is going to be the format for packages like Pano2VR, or Flexify (commercial Photoshop plug-in) or Hugin to remap to other projections, such as cube faces or origami balloon (i.e., print it out, fold it as an origami balloon, and get your printed cube). But it does tend to take a few months to years to amass both the equipment and shooting/processing skillz to get good at this, and the specialized equipment (fisheye lens, panorama head, stitching software license) is not cheap.Ĭreating and working with this type of panorama is most typically done in equirectangular projection. There are cameras that can create this type of image in a single shot (e.g., Ricoh Theta), but the image quality and resolution of these types of cameras tends to be very low and you have no control over the stitch, so panorama stitching is how most professionals do these types of images. The only way to get the cube faces is to cover the cube by shooting a spherical 360ºx180º pano, first.
