Notes about viewing and rendering Photospheres locally w/o google killing the feature later

These are various links to pages with attempts to locally render photospheres.  As iGoogle proves along with a lot of other things, the Big G will capriciously kill off things that it gets bored with, and having photospheres vanish is not an option.

python script
http://meestuff.blogspot.com/2013/08/google-photo-sphere-viewer-for-desktop.html

github for above:

https://github.com/paoletto/PythonPhotoSphere

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14594934/is-there-a-method-for-displaying-an-android-photosphere-on-an-ios-device
https://developers.google.com/streetview/

http://forums.androidcentral.com/photo-spheres/296768-photo-sphere-viewer-chrome.html

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/84268/how-can-i-view-photospheres-on-a-pc

https://github.com/kennydude/photosphere
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1578169/how-can-i-read-xmp-data-from-a-jpg-with-php
https://github.com/narqo/modernizr-bl (updated for https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/blob/master/feature-detects/webgl-extensions.js)