Choose a "Panorama preset" and click on the "Go" button.
Then, on the view below, click and drag the mouse holding the right or left button, turn the wheel too :-)

Panorama preset: NewYork - Time square NewYork - Columbus circle London - Big Ben London - The Gherkin (London's Egg) Paris - Arc de Triomphe Paris - Le Sacre Coeur Paris - Le Louvre Seville - Cathedrale Sydney - Opera Sydney - Under the bridge Brest - Pont Recouvrance milieu Brest - Tour Tanguy Brest - Saint Martin   Zoom (default 2): 0 1 2 3 4 5   Panorama Url (GoogleStreetView link):  

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Result presets: Custom Mini Planet Hole Show panorama Show mini-planet Horizontal

float4x4 worldViewProjection : WORLDVIEWPROJECTION; // The texture sampler is used to access the texture bitmap in the fragment shader. sampler texSampler0; // input parameters for our vertex shader struct VertexShaderInput { float4 position : POSITION; float2 texcoord : TEXCOORD0; }; // input parameters for our pixel shader struct PixelShaderInput { float4 position : POSITION; float2 texcoord : TEXCOORD0; }; PixelShaderInput vertexShaderFunction(VertexShaderInput input) { PixelShaderInput output; output.position = mul(input.position, worldViewProjection); output.texcoord = input.texcoord; return output; } float4 pixelShaderFunction(PixelShaderInput input): COLOR { return tex2D(texSampler0, input.texcoord); } // #o3d VertexShaderEntryPoint vertexShaderFunction // #o3d PixelShaderEntryPoint pixelShaderFunction // #o3d MatrixLoadOrder RowMajor float4 rot; float zoom; float power; samplerCUBE cubeSampler; // input parameters for our vertex shader struct VertexShaderInput { float4 position : POSITION; }; // input parameters for our pixel shader struct PixelShaderInput { float4 position : POSITION; float2 pos : TEXCOORD0; }; // vertex shader PixelShaderInput vertexShaderFunction(VertexShaderInput input) { PixelShaderInput output; output.position = input.position; output.pos.x = dot(output.position.xy, rot.xy); output.pos.y = dot(output.position.xy, rot.zw); return output; } // pixel shader float4 pixelShaderFunction(PixelShaderInput input): COLOR { float3 texCoord; texCoord.xz = input.pos; texCoord.y = pow(dot(input.pos, input.pos), power) * zoom - 1.0; return texCUBE(cubeSampler, texCoord); } // #o3d VertexShaderEntryPoint vertexShaderFunction // #o3d PixelShaderEntryPoint pixelShaderFunction // #o3d MatrixLoadOrder RowMajor