How to avoid qtvr files being transformed to movies
QuickTime VR hasn't been used for at least 10 or 11 years so it's going to be really difficult to find a current player for this file format.  There's likely no path to remedy this.

Even on Apple's website, it's listed as "legacy/historical".  This piece of documentation was updated in 2009 - 8 long years ago.

From a 2016 Business Insider Article:  The inside story of Apple's forgotten project to change how we explore the world from our computers


  When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, QuickTime VR was de-emphasized. Apple put out its last QuickTime VR-specific press release in 1997, although Apple continued to use it to provide 360-degree views of new products like iPods as late as 2006. "Quicktime VR all really happened in that Scully window before Steve came back, and I think that Apple does not pay any attention to the stuff that happened during those years," Bohrman said. 


There may be some open source or 3rd party applications that support it, but going off Wikipedia, the list is quite small.