A few years ago, I came across an app that lets you make “tiny planets” out of your pictures. The examples I saw looked cool, and it was a free app, so I figured I might as well give it a try to see how it worked.
I quickly learned that you had to use panorama photos since the app basically wrapped your image in a circle and made the bottom of the picture the ground of your new photographic “planet.” My particular test images were fun to look at but they were still pretty wonky, and you could tell they were made by someone who didn’t really know what they were doing.
At that point, I assumed that full 360-degree images were probably too technically difficult
