This tutorial describes the various options for publishing your panoramas on the World Wide Web. It describes the popular panorama formats, and gives the advantages and disadvantages of each. It then describes in detail the steps required to put panoramas either inside your web pages or to make them popup in separate windows.
The three most popular formats for putting 3D panoramas on the Web are the VRML97 format, Apple's QuickTime VR format, and Live Picture's RealSpace format. Each has certain advantages and disadvantages. Which is 'best' depends on what is most important to you; if you have not yet decided on a format, here is a discussion of the issues. Executive summary: we recommend publishing your panoramas as Live Picture panoramas, viewed with their Java applet, and/or in the VRML97 format.
Live Picture distributes a Java applet that can display panoramas in their panorama format. The applet can be downloaded for free from the Live Picture web site. This document gives some hints on using the applet with SkyPaint.
The VRML97 International Standard includes support for cubic background panoramas. This document goes over several issues related to publishing panoramas as VRML worlds.
Panoramas can appear inline inside web pages, like this (click and drag to change the view of the panorama on the right):
This document describes the HTML code necessary to put panoramas inline, using either a Java panorama viewer or a panorama plugin.
You can choose to show panoramas in a separate window; click here for an example. This document describes the necessary HTML and JavaScript code to accomplish this.