WebVR Photosphere Viewer with Navigation Menu

Support:

• Smartphone: Works best with Google Cardboard v2 (with button) on iPhone and Android devices using a standard Chrome web browser.
• Desktop PC: Oculus Rift with Firefox Nightly web browser or Google Chrome web browser (special WebVR build).
• Desktop PC: HTC Vive? (sorry, untested).

Live Example (impl. with IdeaSpaceVR CMS using dynamic image loading via JSON):

• https://www.ideaspacevr.org/themes/web-vr-photo-sphere-viewer-navigation-menu

Instructions for Desktop PC (Oculus Rift / HTC Vive):

• Press SPACE bar on your keyboard to access the photo menu.
• Gaze at a photo and click your mouse button to select a photo.

Instructions for Smartphone (Google Cardboard v2):

• Press the Cardboard button to access the photo menu.
• Gaze at a photo and press the Cardboard button to select a photo.

Development:

• In order to dynamically load images, you need to set the url parameter of the isvr-photosphere-menu-navigation component to a JSON endpoint (paginated):

isvr-photosphere-menu-navigation="url:https://www.ideaspacevr.org/webvr-photosphere-viewer-equirectangular-images/field-data?key=images_upload&chunk-size=3&page=2"

IdeaSpace Open Source Content Management System

• This photosphere viewer is a standard theme of the IdeaSpace CMS on Github.

Credits:

• A-Frame: https://aframe.io
• Photo licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/