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The loading speed is pretty impressive! I can pan and zoom around crazy fast and load the full resolution views nearly instantly.

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It's like Google Maps, but you're inside the earth pinned at the center and the images are projected onto the sphere. They load in tiles, so it's trivial to get it to be this fast.

Not sure if "trivial" is a good word.

Sure you may publish a JS library on NPM to prove it is sooo simple?

I meant trivial as in "is a solved issue" in the sense that you only have to include a library like Pannellum [0].

Features:

- Equirectangular, partial, cubic, and multi-resolution panoramas

- WebGL and CSS 3D based renderers

- Hot spots / tours

- Compass headings

- Plug-in free

- Framework free

- Video support

[0] https://github.com/mpetroff/pannellum

Looking into the source, it looks like it uses krpano.

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