Ralph Olberg called and asked about virtual tours, cubic VR style.
Some Free/Cheap software possibilities can be found here. Most everything seems to be based on "Pano Tools."
http://panotools.sourceforge.net/
Commercial tools:
http://www.easypano.com/index.html
http://www.panoscan.com/
http://www.kaidan.com/
From what I can tell, software is the least of the issues, compared to building a camera rig and calibrating lenses. See
http://www.panomundo.com/panos/howto/index.html