Immersive display system with adjustable perspective

An immersive display system with adjustable perspective, comprising:

• a viewing device suitable for displaying display information in an immersive environment relative to a recorded position that is separable from a user-based virtual viewer position;
• an input device configured to adjust a relationship between the virtual viewer position and the recorded position;
• a non-transitory memory containing computer-readable instructions operable to display and adjust the display information in the immersive environment;
• an image storage element that stores at least one two-dimensional photographic image;
• and
• a processor configured to process the instructions for carrying out the following steps for creating a displayed immersive environment:
• map the at least one two-dimensional photographic image onto a surface of a three-dimensional shape wrapped around a virtual recorded position that corresponds to the recorded position, the three-dimensional shape having a reference dimension, and
• display the mapped image in the immersive environment wrapped around the virtual recorded position and extending around the virtual viewer position sufficiently to provide the displayed immersive environment, the mapped image being displayed at a virtual display orientation corresponding to the virtual viewer position and displayed extending around the virtual viewer position to provide the displayed immersive environment,
• wherein the virtual viewer position is spaced from the virtual recorded position by a fraction of the reference dimension, thereby providing a simulation of a change in position relative to a scaled value of the reference dimension corresponding to a difference between the virtual recorded position and the virtual viewer position, thereby simulating a change in the viewer position relative to the immersive environment.