How and why I built Virtual Tour of My Campus

About me

I am a junior full-stack developer. I am doing a Masters in Information Technology. I have developed Web applications like Virtual Tour, CG Detector, etc.

The problem I wanted to solve

Before coming to my college, I really tried to find some visual resources of my college, but I found none. I decided that when I became a developer, my first project would be to make Virtual Tour of my Campus.

What is Virtual Tour of My Campus?

I built a Virtual Tour of my campus, which is a 3D simulation of my college for a virtual experience of the college.
Play Virtual Tour
Note: It might take some time to load become it is very large project

Tech stack

First, I developed an image render for creating 360 recto spheres from images at different angles.
Second, I developed a HTML Flash player for playing these 360 rectos spheres.

The process of building Virtual Tour of My Campus

First, I learned Basic Data Structures and Algorithms, then Python and JavasSript. Get Started with the project.

Challenges I faced

The biggest challenge with this project was creating 360 recto spheres without a Wide Lens Camera because I didn't have any Wide Lens for my camera. It became really difficult to create a complete 36 recto sphere using a normal lens.

My project was stopped for ten days due to this problem.
Finally, I got an alternative solution using stereographical imaging algorithm.

Key learnings

The best thing I learned from this project was: if you try hard enough, you can build anything.

Tips and advice

Just stick to what you like and someday work will become one of the best things.

Final thoughts and next steps

By doing this project, I learned a lot. I just want to continue the journey of learning.