How can I share an equirectangular 360° panorama privately in a Google Street View–style viewer?

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I have a stitched 360° equirectangular panorama (18432×9216) and want an easy way to share it with friends via a link. Photosynth works, but it requires Silverlight. Is there a simple way to turn my panorama into a Google Street View–style interactive panorama, ideally without making it publicly discoverable?

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360cities: panoramas can be viewed on desktop, iPhone, iPad and in Google Earth.

If you want a more customized panorama or virtual tour (many panoramas connected), krpano would be the best option.

UPDATE:

Google Maps has a repo on GitHub that can convert Android's Sphere Images to Street View: https://github.com/googlemaps/streetsphere and it also has an online generator: http://street-sphere.appspot.com/

But it only works with Android's Sphere Images which contains metadata. You can try to generate one with this image. The output zip file contains that image and a web page.

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A practical option is to use a web panorama viewer rather than trying to publish directly into public Street View. Based on the answers, your main choices are:

krpano for a customized private panorama or virtual tour.
360cities if you want broad device support.
Google’s Street View-style tools if you specifically want the Google look.

For Google-style viewing, the shared solutions mention two workable approaches:

Add spherical panorama metadata to your equirectangular image (ProjectionType=equirectangular, pano dimensions, cropped area values, etc.), then upload it for viewing/sharing.
Tile the panorama for the Google Maps JavaScript API Street View viewer. GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick can crop the pano into zoom-level tiles, which a web page can then display interactively.

If private sharing is the priority, a self-hosted viewer such as krpano is the simplest fit, because publishing to Google services may make discoverability and platform behavior harder to control. If you specifically want Google Street View presentation, use the metadata or tiling approach from the referenced tutorials/tools, but keep in mind those workflows are more technical than using a dedicated panorama viewer.

How can I share an equirectangular 360° panorama privately in a Google Street View–style viewer?

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