Wrote this about a year ago, I’ve was waiting to upgrading it to WebVR, but that’s still some time off so I wanted to share this now.
Uses Babylonjs 2.5 and VR is implemented using some old techniques but still works pretty well.
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Nice way to handle position transitions!
Are your renderfarms still alive after rendering more than 500 images? 
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Really cool! do you plan to move to bjs4.0?
Also pinging @PirateJC fyi
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Yeah, I’m working on an updated version in 3.3 right now. I guess I should look at 4, since it’ll be likely be ‘stable’ by the time I get this done. It’s not top priority at the moment.
Yeah, it’s heavy on the render side. 3dsMax and Vray. This is one of the larger one’s we’ve done. When I created it we did a little studio. I’ve many optimizations going in v.2
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Hey KramSurfer it’s really a great Job 
I was wondering when you move to a point to an other did you make the camera move or it’s just fixed and you make the illusion of movement with the 360 degrees pictures?
Both, there’s a series of images that ‘make the move’ then I pull the camera back a little bit, along the vector of the previous path, and animate it to the centroid of the sphere with the mapped image. That’s the little ease in you feel.
@KramSurfer wonderful job. I wonder how you keep the image so straight?
Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com)
I’m not using a photodome, I"m not sure what the geometry or mapping of that is… It’s projected on an face inverted sphere.
@KramSurfer love your movement blur!!! how did you achieve it?
Vray Motion blur, rendered in the image.
Do you mean that you used a different image for the transitions?
It’s much more insane than that.
I scripted key frame animation of every path between every node location in the 3D model, There’s typically 3-5 images for each ‘move’ Longer distances have more frames. They’re low resolution and render faster than the location. From this scripted animation in the 3D package, I export a data set for application to know which frames belong between which nodes. There’s also a shortest path to calculate movements across multiple nodes. It was super fun to build.
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