Panoramic UV Texture Wrapping

so well this funny to me cause its my head or a picture of me i wrapped around a sphere then made into audio reactive mesh blends as an experiment in realtime 3d deformations.

i know the models are large there are 4 of them i haven't yet converted them to fbx, and they are really large i sub divided them twice. so that is the level of detail that eventually will be rendered but agreeably to large to wrap just a pic texture around. eventually it will be a talking head but i wanted to play in qc a bit with some audio so this is the test render.

so i still have to sculpt out the finished head i am hoping to be able to blend 10 shapes but am having a lowered frame rate with 4 at the moment but i think that is because obj is sluggish.

does anyone else think this a funny visualizer.