VR and immersive
Virtual location scouting in VR – how it works
Virtual location scouting explained: generate candidate locations, review them in a VR headset with the director and DP, then hand off to previs.
Guides and articles
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Practical guides to 360° worlds, written for the people who use them: game developers, VR and WebXR builders, film and virtual production teams, architects and 3D artists. Start with one of the three complete guides below, then go deeper with step-by-step articles on engines, formats, resolution and comfort. New to the vocabulary? The 360° glossary explains every term in a sentence or two.
Complete guide
360-degree images: the complete guide to 360° worlds
How 360° images work: equirectangular projection, resolution, PNG vs EXR, where they are used, and how AI now generates complete 360° environments.
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Complete guide
Game skyboxes: the complete guide to 360° environments for games
Everything about game skyboxes: cubemap vs panoramic, resolution and texture memory, lighting from the sky, and setup in Unity, Unreal, Godot, Blender.
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Complete guide
VR environments: the complete guide to immersive 360° worlds
How to build VR environments with 360° worlds: headset resolution, mono vs stereo, comfort, performance on standalone headsets, and getting into VR.
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Complete guide
360° glossary: the terms explained
Plain-English definitions of 360° terms: skybox, HDRI, cubemap, equirectangular, EXR, pixels per degree and more, with links to full guides.
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Latest articles
VR and immersive
VR training environments – a practical guide
Build believable VR training environments fast: what a scenario needs from its setting, variants from one prompt, and when 360° is enough.
VR and immersive
VR comfort – designing environments people can stay in
Design VR environments people can stay in: level horizons, true scale, brightness, never moving the world, gentle transitions, and user testing.
VR and immersive
How to show a 360° image in VR with A-Frame
Build a WebXR 360° scene with A-Frame: the smallest working page, a-sky, loading large equirectangular images, entering VR and testing on a headset.
VR and immersive
Monoscopic vs stereoscopic 360° – what is the difference?
Mono or stereo 360°? How stereo fakes depth, where it breaks when people tilt or move, and why mono worlds plus 3D geometry work...
VR and immersive
What is the best resolution for VR 360° images?
What resolution does a 360° image need in a VR headset? Pixels per degree for current headsets, what 4K, 8K and 16K look like,...
Game environments
Stylized skyboxes – how to match the sky to your art style
Why a photoreal sky breaks a stylized game, and how to match palette, value and style: painterly, low poly and anime skies, and how...
Game environments
How to add an HDRI in Blender for world lighting
Add an HDRI to Blender's world: the Environment Texture node, rotating it with a Mapping node, strength, and showing a different background.
Game environments
Skybox texture size and memory, explained
How much memory does a skybox use? The maths for 4K and 8K, BC7 vs ASTC compression, mipmaps and the seam line, and settings...
Game environments
How to make a skybox in Unity from a 360° image
Make a skybox in Unity from a 360° image: import settings, the Panoramic and Cubemap shaders, lighting from the sky, URP and HDRP, and...
Studio · Q4 2026
Stop searching for the right sky. Generate it.
Describe the environment you need and Studio builds the whole 360° world, up to 8K and ready for your engine or headset.
