Miscrosoft’s answer to Google Sky : World Wide Telescope
By Andrew Redfern @ 10th March 2008 10:36 am
Microsoft are soon to lauch World Wide Telescope (WWT) allowing users to explore the universe using images from telescopes around the earth and those in orbit.
The company says : 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 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.” and dedicate the applicationto the memory of Turing Award winner Jim Gray.
It will be available in Spring.
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