Channel 9 - Entries tagged with universe Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with universe http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/universe 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/universe en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:02:43 GMT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:02:43 GMT Rev9 2 1 25 Microsoft Research Lets you Pinch the Sky 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 a 360 degree image that can be navigated and manipulated using common freehand gestures like pinching, for example (hence the name).

In the demo, a presenter pinches Jupiter to rotate the planet, pinches to expand and contract a galaxy and more.

The project also supports voice commands to navigate from one celestial body to the next.

For those interested in learning more about the research, there’s a whitepaper available here.

(via the ISV Developer Community)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Microsoft-Research-Lets-you-Pinch-the-Sky 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 a 360 degree image that can be navigated and manipulated using common freehand gestures like pinching, for example (hence the name). In the demo, a presenter pinches Jupiter to rotate the planet, pinches to expand and contract a galaxy and more.The project also supports voice commands to navigate from one celestial body to the next. For those interested in learning more about the research, there’s a whitepaper available here.(via the ISV Developer Community) http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Microsoft-Research-Lets-you-Pinch-the-Sky Thu, 20 May 2010 15:16:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Microsoft-Research-Lets-you-Pinch-the-Sky Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Microsoft-Research-Lets-you-Pinch-the-Sky/RSS Microsoft Research MS Research MSR worldwide telescope wwt universe World Wide Telescope 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