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Yes, in fact at least one of them got funding from YC: Matterport.

There are many others: Kuula, Cupix, iStaging, EyeSpy360... Real estate companies use them a lot, e.g. to create a virtual tour for prospective buyers.

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Yes but they don't just use a random set of photos. They take multiple 360 photos for the specific purpose of feeding them into their virtual tour app. That's why you can pan around.

thank you! very interesting, i'll check those out. do you know of any open source projects?

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