From 360 Video to Interactive Learning Systems

A panoramic video can create presence, but learning requires decisions. The learner needs prompts, actions, feedback, progress, and sometimes assessment.

That means the architecture must handle more than video playback. It must manage hotspots, branching, state, timing, accessibility, and analytics.

The authoring experience is for creators. The runtime is for learners. Mixing both too early creates tools that are hard to use and hard to deliver.

A strong architecture separates content creation, media processing, interaction models, learner delivery, and reporting.

SCORM, xAPI, CMI5, and LTI are not just acronyms. They define how a learning experience connects to an LMS, reports progress, and fits institutional workflows.

The right standard depends on what must be tracked, where the learner starts, where results live, and who needs to audit them.

If analytics are added late, the system usually tracks page views instead of learning behavior. Useful immersive analytics capture choices, retries, hesitation, sequence, completion, and outcome.

This is where product, pedagogy, and architecture need to meet before development goes too far.