Our time is the age of new technological trends in the realm of science and industry. Without a doubt, mankind, to a great extent, owes its progress in various sciences and industries, and following that, increasing conveniences and welfare, to the electronics technology, and especially, the computers.

  It may not be possible to find an example in the history of mankind in area of cybernetics and mass communication, comparable to the achievements of recent times. Today, communications are one of the most important branches and the criterion of progress, to the extent that it can be said that a country may be called advanced, if possessing great volumes of data and information exchange.

  The subject of advertisement and publicity has a major share in this data exchange. Nowadays, the element of time in various manners has become attached to the mindset of the humankind as a quite powerful tool, and maybe the most important and powerful arm of advertisement today, is the technology of the internet.

  Advanced societies have tried to make the best possible use of this technology to promote their culture, art, science, and industry. The subject of “Spherical Panorama” images is one of the new methods of which the history of its usage does not go back even a decade. With help of this method, not only you can create awe and praise in your viewer, but put him or her virtually in the viewing environment.

  Prior to the development of this method, such emotions could only be created by playing a movie for the viewing person, but since the size of digital movies are too big, and the speed of information exchange in the internet has limits for all its users, it is not possible to put lengthy movies on the web for your viewers with the acceptable dimensions and quality. But, now, using the “Spherical Panorama” method, we can present the whole subject space in a “Live” manner to the viewer, with a size not larger than a few seconds of a digital movie.

  The “Spherical Panorama”, because of its internet-based characteristics is the perfect media for introduction of religious, historical, cultural, and national sites and locations and also for promotion of hotels, pilgrimage locations, tourism attractions, amusement parks, industrial complexes, and national monuments. One truly unique character of such visual projects is the ability to move from the current location to another one next to it, like going from a room to the next one, and in fact, by running the first project and creating a link, the second space can be loaded. Through execution of one single project, one can access as many spherical panoramas that are desired. We believe that in the present times and because of the special type of communications, using spherical panoramas is the best solution for advertisement and publicity, tourism industry, national-cultural programs, presentation of comprehensive visual reports of industrial projects (specially for those managers who are not able to actually visit a project site), image archives based on the date of the pictures, visual recordings of the implementation stages of technical and industrial projects (progress reports), etc..

  The few samples presented here, are some of the spherical panorama projects which have been made in Iran. It should be mentioned that creating spherical panorama projects require special scientific and technical skills that makes it impossible for the common person to undertake, and only those are able to create a spherical panorama who possess the proper technique and experience and the special imaging equipment for such an environment, plus the required imaging software, and the related computer graphic skills.