360 Virtual Stage/Renovation, Spherical Video in Blender

Have a look at this short test run of 360 rendering I completed in Blender Cycles 3.1.0.
I prepared this scene as a virtual stage, (why its only half decorated) and then decided to add a 360 camera with some animation since I had never rendered 360 views before.
This is the output from Blender on my Ubuntu Studio Machine, rendering with Blender 3.1.0 cycles engine, 128 samples and optix denoising on my Nvidia RTX A4000 GPU. About 2 minutes rendering per frame, 250 frames with size of 5000 pixels by 2500 pixels. Frames combined in FCPX.
Models and materials from Blenderkit, free Blender materials.
Could you use 3d rendered 360 views to showcase a design or concept?
Want to see full resolution versions of some of these frames -- have a look at the 'tour' on Kuula.co
kuula.co/share...
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[@SamEmilio2]

Hey Chris, this is a great result and I'm interested in knowing: did you start with 360* images that the empty scene/walls were projected on, or is it a physically accurate remake in Blender? I hope this question makes sense. Wondering if anything is photographic, or if it's all 3D

[@cgardinerphoto]

hey Sam, thanks for watching. and great question. all of this is render. the original room/photo was an unfinished basement from a regular DSLR and we wanted to highlight what a nice renovation could do to the space for a real estate client. in the interest of making the 360 rendered video, being a personal project using the same scene, I just put some extra walls behind the camera so we had something to look at if anyone turned in that direction. if on the other hand, you are aware of an easy workflow to take real 360 photos and pull them into blender for alignment (like ive demonstrated in another virtual staging video I have using fspy and blender) then I would be happy to hear more from you about it though! there are definitely ways to take your photographed scene and 'project' those captured colors and lighting onto the 3d mesh, which I do demonstrate that in a virtual staging with blender video, but haven't got it working with a 360 original photo. let me know if there's any other questions you have, or something you're trying to achieve though, and id be happy to share whatever else I know.

[@SamEmilio2]

@@cgardinerphoto Thanks for the info Chris. Seeing your virtual staging video actually got me to FINALLY start learning Blender about a year and a half back. I'm really thankful for it. I recently started looking into how to get 360 scans into Blender for doing Matterport staging. It's crazy how much harder it is than for a 2D photo with fspy! It gets so complex so fast. I've tried a few things that haven't worked at all. I even spent/wasted the $50 on the MatterPak .obj file. The mesh is awful, and probably only works well if you're using a Pro3 camera. Something I'm going to try when I get a few spare minutes soon is a workflow for krpano, with a projection add on that I can't remember the name of. If I make any viable progress with it I'll shoot you an email.

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

Bit fuzzy even on max setting

[@cgardinerphoto]

Thanks for the comment j5, yes, looks like it came from something like the video compression, since a lot of the artifacts aren't present on my local .MOV file or at the Kuula link where I've uploaded a couple still frames; kuula.co/share/collection/79H1Y