Toying around in 2023.1 meshroom I noticed a pathway for panorama generation using static images. This is wonderful as most of the 360 meshing applications have somewhat fallen by the wayside, for example: Kolor Autopano / Autopano Giga. I think Kolor was purchased by a 3rd party and then just depreciated. It exists on the dubious parts of the net, but relying on decade old software for meshing seems a bit backwards.

Generating panoramas from a fixed location, IE in the field without a gadget sometimes results in missing sections, which is why the feedback from an app is so excellent. On the plus side a DSLR can take a metric pile of photos quickly and worse case if there's a lot of overlap it is just extra compute time. I really want to give this a go with a proper camera and see how well the meshing works. This should also work for a pile of photos from a camera phone.

Concluding Remarks

• I'd really love an open source alternative to Google street view for taking photo-spheres on mobile, I think the idea blossomed early but never quite caught on and fell to the wayside due to either a lack of interest or just browser-based rendering being quite bad at the time. I hesitate to look at 360 cameras as an option because, well, its a super specific device that's only really useful for certain applications. I've used the GoPro Fusion 360, which is a very dubious device, its finicky, likes to turn on at random, and requires a lot of horsepower to mesh together footage.
  

• Unfortunately its really easy to make bad meshes on mobile, I've found that starting top-down results in a higher success rate than circling each orbit. The street view application also has a fixed number of images used per photo-sphere, while it would be interesting to instead have the ability to take more images to add more resolution to areas that don't expose correctly.
  

• Apparently you're supposed to have the photosphere camera lens relatively fixed in position, which is somewhat impossible to do well by hand. Try and imagine the lens staying fixed in space and rotating about that. Previously I had been trying at arms length but that was rather hit and miss.
  

• Photo-spheres really like bright but not hyper sunny days. If the sun is directly visible you will have some impressive shadows and really spicy ranges of exposures, which generally make for bad mesh's, given mobile phone cameras lack of exposure depth. 

• Try and limit the difference in depth to objects. If everything is in focus at infinity (and there are no giant power lines running overhead) the meshing works well, if you're butted up against a shed the spatial difference is really hard to get a good photo-sphere from.