Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope
Posted by Tom Warren on 13 May 2008 - 09:31 · 17 comments & 6579 views
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#1 Posted by Avi on 13 May 2008 - 09:34
- Yet another Microsoft website that uses Flash instead of Silverlight...
EDIT: Alright, just tried it... it's really neat. The interface is nice and it feels pretty smooth.
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#1.1 Posted by Relativity_17 on 13 May 2008 - 10:11
- Wow, who cares about Flash vs Silverlight? Its like saying that all Adobe corporate documents need to be in PDF format or else some great wrong has been done in the universe...
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#1.2 Posted by Avi on 13 May 2008 - 10:24
- (Relativity_17 said @ #1.1)Wow, who cares about Flash vs Silverlight? Its like saying that all Adobe corporate documents need to be in PDF format or else some great wrong has been done in the universe...Excuse me for finding it funny that they aren't using their own products.
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#2 Posted by miguel_montes on 13 May 2008 - 11:05
- I just tried it. Good and free, but I still don't see what the big fuss was all about. Really, this brought tears to a guy? Lame.
Starry Night Pro is better.
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#3 Posted by scaramonga on 13 May 2008 - 11:26
- Another heap of junk that forces you to have even more junk installed to use it (.NET) no thanks.
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#3.1 Posted by JamesWeb on 13 May 2008 - 12:35
- Well you're slowly going to find yourself able to run less and less programs.
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#3.2 Posted by C_Guy on 13 May 2008 - 14:11
- Alright! Another well-informed opinion from someone who actually tried the program before posting
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#5 Posted by tsupersonic on 13 May 2008 - 13:35
- This program is cool. Now, if they'd make a standalone Google Earth competitor
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#5.1 Posted by majortom1981 on 13 May 2008 - 14:11
- (tsupersonic said @ #5)This program is cool. Now, if they'd make a standalone Google Earth competitor
It does almost everything google earth does and more. It can zoom in on earth and find streets just not too far in like google earth. Its still a beta though.
It also has guided space tours whith speech. Which I thought was pretty cool.
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#6 Posted by jameswjrose on 13 May 2008 - 15:17
- This uses some of their photosynth technogy, right? At least the interface seems really familiar.
Peace,
James Rose
New York City
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#8 Posted by +Skwerl on 13 May 2008 - 18:26
- I hope this helps get some of the little mush-headed kids interested in a science. This is an impressive piece of work. We've never been able to explore the heavens in this way before.
The free Web-based application allows users to zoom around the universe and browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.
The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft high performance Visual Experience Engine, which allows seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments. Worldwide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies, and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky. People can freely browse through the solar system, galaxy and beyond, or take advantage of a growing number of guided tours of the sky hosted by astronomers and educators at major universities and planetariums