Microsoft Introduces WorldWide Telescope -- A Desktop Observatory
Microsoft Research showed a technology preview of Microsoft WorldWide Telescope (WWT) at the Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, CA on February 28, 2008. WorldWide Telescope is an observatory on your desktop, allowing you to zoom in and out and see the sky in a new way.
Dr. Roy Gould, an astrophysicist from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, introduced MS WWT in partnership with Curtis Wong, principal researcher of Microsoft’s Next Media Research group and head of the project.
MicroSoft's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe. 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.
“The WorldWide Telescope takes the best images from the greatest telescopes on Earth ... and in space ... and assembles them into a seamless, holistic view of the universe. This new resource will change the way we do astronomy ... the way we teach astronomy ... and, most importantly, I think it's going to change the way we see ourselves in the universe,” said Dr. Roy Gould of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. “The creators of the WorldWide Telescope have now given us a way to have a dialogue with our universe.”
WorldWide Telescope will be available in Spring 2008.
Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower people to explore and understand the universe as never before.
For more information:
http://worldwidetelescope.org/
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/buzz/FAQ.aspx
Astromart News Archive:
http://www.astromart.com/news/search.asp?search=.
Dr. Roy Gould, an astrophysicist from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, introduced MS WWT in partnership with Curtis Wong, principal researcher of Microsoft’s Next Media Research group and head of the project.
MicroSoft's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe. 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.
“The WorldWide Telescope takes the best images from the greatest telescopes on Earth ... and in space ... and assembles them into a seamless, holistic view of the universe. This new resource will change the way we do astronomy ... the way we teach astronomy ... and, most importantly, I think it's going to change the way we see ourselves in the universe,” said Dr. Roy Gould of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. “The creators of the WorldWide Telescope have now given us a way to have a dialogue with our universe.”
WorldWide Telescope will be available in Spring 2008.
Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower people to explore and understand the universe as never before.
For more information:
http://worldwidetelescope.org/
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/buzz/FAQ.aspx
Astromart News Archive:
http://www.astromart.com/news/search.asp?search=.
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