Archival Toolkit Want to make your own imaginary city with us? You can use an open source library of many programs other developers have made.
we used a public repository called Big Sleep (Shout outs to adverb for creating this dreamy algorithm) and it is self-explainatory with the faq in the google colab notebook.

Want to make your own 360° images but dont have a super smart phone? Thanks to some super smart devs, they were able to customize the pixel's google cam. You can download an apk here
If you'd like access to its functionality (and if this is your first time hearing "root" then yay! You can look here for more info on how to root your android).

Want to play with maps that aren't owned by google? We used a web api from a company named ARCGIS. It doesn't have great documentation and isnt nearly as robust as google maps for small scale projects, but it can get the job done if you want to avoid using google maps.
The specific basemap we used is the

Want to create your own VR experiences on a website? A relatively easy option is to use A-Frame, a javascript framework that uses WebXR to allow you to build cross platform vr applications embedded in a website. We used this to build a 360° photosphere viewer. They have some useful examples on their website here