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Microsoft announces May 2008 startup of WorldWide Telescope

by William Atkins
Monday, 12 May 2008
Page 2 of 2 Designed in part by Jonathan Fay and Curtis Wong and developed by the Microsoft Research Laboratory at Microsoft Corporation, Worldwide Telescope is expected to be more powerful and more comprehensive than Google Earth. Related stories Chrome is good news for the ABM crowd Microsoft slips free development tools to students VMware ESX qualifies under Microsoft virtualisation support program Guitar Hero World Tour dated and priced Xbox 360 now cheaper, will Nintendo cut the Wii price? Wong talked at the TED conference in February 2008. His talk, along with the talk by Roy Gould, is found at: “Ted Talks," along with biographies of the two men. Gould is a researcher at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics (Massachusetts, U.S.A.). Wong is the manager of Microsoft's Next Media Research. According to the Microsoft Research website “WorldWide Telescope,” “The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.” In addition, “WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft's high-performance Visual Experience Engine, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.” Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Earth Microsoft Software Universe William Atkins Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now << First page < 1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>