World Wide Telescope

At Mix 11 Johnathan Fay from Microsoft Research showed a demo of Worldwide Telescope using Kinect as a controller. I stopped by during Mix 11 to get more details about what it does, how it works, and when we'll be able to play with this ourselves.

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…

Starting today, you don’t have to download any software to your PC to enjoy what Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope has to offer – it’s now available online as a web application! This is good news for folks running non-Windows operating systems who were previously unable to use this amazing…

Para quem ainda não teve a oportunidade de instalar e experimentar esse software maravilhoso, agora você não tem desculpa. Uma versão em Silverlight do Worldwide Telescope está no ar. É uma versão mais limitada, em termos de funcionalidades, do que a versão para instalação, mas mesmo assim ainda…

Para comemorar o lançamento em DVD do WALL∙E a Pixar criou uma tour virtual para o Worldwide Telescope onde o WALL∙E mostra as belezas dos planetas, das constelações, das estrelas e das galáxias no software da Microsoft. Tudo isso com a Sinfonia Número 3 – Scherzo: Allegro vivace de Beethoven. Para…