After searching google for a bit I found 360vr.com which has some amazing examples of some very complex virtual reality panoramas such as this one from New Year's Eve in Times Square:
This panorama is especially immersive because it includes some audio of the New Year countdown.
Jook is an example of a photographer that takes these images. Here is his page on the 360vr website, where it is explained that he uses a fish eye lens.
These professional panoramas are taken using fish eye lenses, because the scope of the images they capture allow for less photographs to be taken to get the full 360 degrees, and therefore allowing more realistic panoramas, with less stitching and a more accurate recording of a place or event, especially if there is a lot of movement in the scene, such as the one above.
I also found this blog, Panoramablog.com which has a lot of images with lots of people and action in.
This panorama, again in New York, shows a mass pillow-fight from right in the thick of the action. All the way round there are people moving and feathers flying, but I can't find any joins between photos, which is impressive.
Here is a photo of the photographer and his camera in the crowd.
I like this panorama (the first on the page) , from the same blog, because, for the viewer, as you look around there are different things happening and you feel as though you are actually in the water with everyone else.
http://www.panoramablog.com/index.php?entry=entry090408-143048 Pillow fight
http://360vr.com/jook/ Jook
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