transform a uiview into a sphere? or distort a uiview

[thephotographer]

Hi,

i would like to take a uiview, and transform it into a sphere, where the user then can rotate the sphere around to look around. the uiview will contain a video. currently im doing it via creating an infinitely scrolling uiscrollview. but its obviously flat. the video is distorted, and if i can put the video around the inside of a sphere that would remove the distortion. or if i could distort the uiview the video is in that could work too, but in months of looking i havent found anything like what i need. i havent gotten into opengl or 3d transformations yet, but if there is an answer there i would love to research it. if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great thanks! as it is i dont even know if its possible to do what i want, but hopefully it is!