Photo Sphere Viewer – 360° Panorama, Virtual Tour, 360 Video & AR 3D Model Viewer
🌐 One plugin, four ways to show something in 360° Photo Sphere Viewer started as a simple way to drop an equirectangular panorama into a WordPress page without wrestling with iframes or third-party embed accounts. It’s grown into four viewers in one plugin: panoramas, multi-scene virtual tours, 360
🌐 One plugin, four ways to show something in 360°
Photo Sphere Viewer started as a simple way to drop an equirectangular panorama into a WordPress page without wrestling with iframes or third-party embed accounts. It’s grown into four viewers in one plugin: panoramas, multi-scene virtual tours, 360° video, and AR-ready 3D models (.glb / .gltf). Add any of them through the block editor, an Elementor widget or a shortcode — whatever your site already uses.
If you shoot with a DJI drone, Ricoh Theta, Insta360, or anything that outputs a stitched equirectangular image, it’ll load. No proprietary format, no vendor lock-in.
Upgrade to Pro
📷 Built with real camera gear in mind
A lot of 360 plugins are built by people who never touched a drone. This one wasn’t.
- DJI Matrice and other drone panoramas — WordPress quietly re-compresses anything over 2560px into a -scaled.jpg since 5.3, which is fine for a blog photo and terrible for a 40MP aerial panorama. The plugin ships with its own ImageResolver that grabs the original upload instead, so fine detail doesn’t turn to mush.
- Ricoh Theta, Insta360, GoPro MAX, Qoocam, Kandao — any properly stitched equirectangular JPEG or PNG just works, no special export needed.
- Google Street View and Android Photo Sphere — same deal, drop the file in and go.
- Gyroscope viewing (Pro) — point a phone around and the panorama follows, VR-headset style, over HTTPS.
🧭 Four viewers
Panorama viewer — the original use case. Upload an equirectangular JPEG/PNG, visitors drag, pinch and zoom on desktop or mobile. Set field of view, zoom limits, movement speed, a starting yaw/pitch, fullscreen, and a caption navbar with zoom and download buttons. Pro adds auto-rotation, on-screen move buttons, a description panel and clickable info hotspots.
Virtual tour builder — string together as many scenes as you want, connected with 3D arrow hotspots. Each scene gets its own starting angle and caption, and you pick which one loads first. Good fit for real estate walkthroughs, hotel tours, museum floor plans. Pro adds a scene gallery bar, a compass overlay, auto-rotation, on-screen move buttons and a description panel.
360° video player — same dragging/looking-around interaction, but for an equirectangular MP4 instead of a still image. Play/pause, seek, volume. Pro unlocks muted autoplay and loop.
