World Wide Telescope

The Microsoft Research team behind the WorldWide Telescope project (WWT) have just announced the addition of new imagery from Mars, courtesy of NASA. Now, WWT users can explore what is, to date, the most complete and high-resolution imagery available and view new, interactive tours of the planet…

A new CNN video shows off a demo of an interesting Microsoft Research project: “Pinch-the-Sky.” The Pinch-the-Sky Dome is a large installation that combines an omni-directional camera in the center of a dome, along with a projector and astronomical data from World Wide Telescope. The end result is…

Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope project has just been integrated with Bing Maps via a new Bing Maps application. The WWT project connects users to all the major telescopes in the world and the images they’ve captured via a client application that either runs on the desktop or in the web browser…

Although the year isn’t over yet, TIME Magazine has already put out their list of the best websites of 2009. Among the obvious choices on the list (Twitter, YouTube, Hulu, Wikipedia), there are also some rarer gems like musical mood site Musicovery, streaming music up-and-comer Spotify, and online…

Sorry it's been so long without any blogging. Between my class at Stanford, finishing the second edition of my compression book, and a profoundly cool project that'll hopefully be announced soon, things have been beyond busy.But I've got a lot of topics in the queue I hope to get posted before IBC…

There is no doubting that Microsoft has some of the most innovative visualization tools available for looking at large and multiple images (Photosynth, DeepZoom, World Wide Telescope, HD View to name several.) NASA, on the other hand, has no shortage of great imagery and datasets. And thus a…

WorldWide Telescope (WWT), the downloadable software from Microsoft Research which lets you explore the universe, has certainly lived up to its pre-launch hype. As of today, the WWT has 1.5 million active users – that’s not downloads, mind you, but people actively using the software on a regular…

Recorded LIVEOn Tuesday (June 17 2008) a small group of bloggers from across the globe were invited to participate in an online, interactive discussion with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay; the gentlemen behind World Wide Telescope.Along with Ambika Singh from the Microsoft team here in Redmond, we…

Recorded LIVEOn Tuesday (June 17 2008) a small group of bloggers from across the globe were invited to participate in an online, interactive discussion with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay; the gentlemen behind World Wide Telescope.Along with Ambika Singh from the Microsoft team here in Redmond, we…