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Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the eye-on-the-sky dept.

Ted.com has a great sneak peek at Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope project. In this video, presented by Roy Gould and Curtis Wong, you are able to see a combined view of satellites and telescopes from all over the planet and nearby space. The compiled image is rendered using Microsoft's new high-performance "Visual Experience Engine" that allows users to pan and zoom across the night sky seamlessly.

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  1. The Video by aembleton · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Curtis Wong explains what you can do, 5.15 into the video. Before that it is a load of boring talk about how it will allow us all to explore the universe and increase our understanding, etc but with some cool pictures of what you can expect to see from the world wide telescope. It will be a free download this spring from http://worldwidetelescope.org/

    I for one, am looking forward to this. I'm sure someone will ask if it can run on Linux. I've no idea, but I can't see it being that hard for Wine to get it working.

  2. Re:who's watching who? by kestasjk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Translation: I wish this had DRM so I could karma whore some anti-MS points.

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  3. Re:This is an invention? by MickDownUnder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft didn't invent it. They bought it.

    I think the thing that really ticks off the tech community about Microsoft, is that they don't really invent anything, they're just extrordinarily good and spotting excellent software early on, acquiring it and then marketing it better than any other company out there.