Channel 9 - Entries tagged with sky Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with sky http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/sky Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/sky en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:34:12 GMT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:34:12 GMT Rev9 2 1 25 Kinect for Xbox 360 + Sky Player Brings Minority Report-Style TV That Little Bit Closer As a keen gamer, I have to say I’m really looking forward to picking up Kinect for Xbox 360. No doubt you’ll have already heard about how you’ll be able to control the Xbox Dashboard and play games entirely through motion, using your body as the controller, and there’s already a library of games building up ahead of November’s launch that you can check out. 

But if they sound like a little too much hard work, or if you’re not a gamer, then even couch potatoes are in for a treat. Here in the UK, Microsoft and Sky have announced that Sky Player will be fully compatible with Kinect. 32 Live TV channels and over 100 on demand movies will be available with a wave of the hand.

Kinect can also be controlled by voice, allowing you to pause, fast forward, rewind and play TV with voice commands. Now, say after me, “Kinect, Play Sky Sports.” Better still, “Kinect, Make Liverpool Beat Arsenal”. Now that’s the kind of control I want to see in Kinect 2.0.

 

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Kinect-for-Xbox-360--Sky-Player-Brings-Minority-Report-Style-TV-That-Little-Bit-Closer As a keen gamer, I have to say I’m really looking forward to picking up Kinect for Xbox 360. No doubt you’ll have already heard about how you’ll be able to control the Xbox Dashboard and play games entirely through motion, using your body as the controller, and there’s already a library of games building up ahead of November’s launch that you can check out. But if they sound like a little too much hard work, or if you’re not a gamer, then even couch potatoes are in for a treat. Here in the UK, Microsoft and Sky have announced that Sky Player will be fully compatible with Kinect. 32 Live TV channels and over 100 on demand movies will be available with a wave of the hand.Kinect can also be controlled by voice, allowing you to pause, fast forward, rewind and play TV with voice commands. Now, say after me, “Kinect, Play Sky Sports.” Better still, “Kinect, Make Liverpool Beat Arsenal”. Now that’s the kind of control I want to see in Kinect 2.0.   http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Kinect-for-Xbox-360--Sky-Player-Brings-Minority-Report-Style-TV-That-Little-Bit-Closer Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:48:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Kinect-for-Xbox-360--Sky-Player-Brings-Minority-Report-Style-TV-That-Little-Bit-Closer Terry Walsh Terry Walsh 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Kinect-for-Xbox-360--Sky-Player-Brings-Minority-Report-Style-TV-That-Little-Bit-Closer/RSS Kinect SkyTV Xbox 360 sky WorldWide Telescope Launched Today, the WorldWide Telescope has been made available to the general public. You may remember the WorldWide Telescope as the technology that made Scoble cry, but even without that hype, the project stands on its own as an amazing platform for scientific exploration and discovery. This virtual telescope is actually comprised of terabytes of imagery, collected and combined from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Using Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine, you can use the telescope to pan and zoom through the night sky, moving in and around planets, stars, and even galaxies. Of course you can view the moon and the planets with WWT, but the imagery from this telescope also lets you do things you've never been able to before from your computer - like watching stars being born or galaxies collide.  

For both scientists and educators, the WorldWide Telescope will help to teach astronomy, computational science, and even provide opportunities for scientific discovery. For users of the telescope, there are rich media tours to that offer narration, music, text, and graphics to guide you through the night sky. It's like going to the planetarium without leaving your home! You can also make your own tours to share with others - a feature that teachers will really enjoy.

I've been playing with WWT tonight and it really is amazing to see the galaxies in their actual positions in the universe and be able to zoom and move them around on the screen. There are several different collections of images to explore - constellations, Hubble images, planets, and many more that I wasn't familiar with but were just as amazing. Click on one of the items from the collection zooms you right to the object in the sky. WWT is rich with technology that will appeal to astronomers, but it's still simple enough for the everyday user.

The telescope is based on technology that came out of Microsoft Research, an area of the company that has operated for 16 years which focuses on long-term, broad-based projects such as this. It's built on work that began with Jim Gray’sSkyServer and contributions to Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

You can view the WorldWide Telescope now from here: www.worldwidetelescope.org.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/WorldWide-Telescope-Launched Today, the WorldWide Telescope has been made available to the general public. You may remember the WorldWide Telescope as the technology that made Scoble cry, but even without that hype, the project stands on its own as an amazing platform for scientific exploration and discovery. This virtual telescope is actually comprised of terabytes of imagery, collected and combined from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Using Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine, you can use the telescope to pan and zoom through the night sky, moving in and around planets, stars, and even galaxies. Of course you can view the moon and the planets with WWT, but the imagery from this telescope also lets you do things you've never been able to before from your computer - like watching stars being born or galaxies collide.   For both scientists and educators, the WorldWide Telescope will help to teach astronomy, computational science, and even provide opportunities for scientific discovery. For users of the telescope, there are rich media tours to that offer narration, music, text, and graphics to guide you through the night sky. It's like going to the planetarium without leaving your home! You can also make your own tours to share with others - a feature that teachers will really enjoy.I've been playing with WWT tonight and it really is amazing to see the galaxies in their actual positions in the universe and be able to zoom and move them around on the screen. There are several different collections of images to explore - constellations, Hubble images, planets, and many more that I wasn't familiar with but were just as amazing. Click on one of the items from the collection zooms you right to the object in the sky. WWT is rich with technology that will appeal to astronomers, but it's still simple enough for the everyday user.The telescope is based on technology that came out of Microsoft Research, an area of the company that has operated for 16 years which focuses http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/WorldWide-Telescope-Launched Tue, 13 May 2008 01:53:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/WorldWide-Telescope-Launched Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/WorldWide-Telescope-Launched/RSS astronomy Education Microsoft Research worldwide telescope wwt sky night sky stars universe galaxies telescope