Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it's the technology that made Robert Scoble cry.)
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I doubt you watched the whole thing if you are comparing this to Google Earth.
This kicks the crap out of Celestia and the like...
I doubt you watched the whole thing if you are comparing this to Google Earth.
Last time I checked, Google Earth allowed me to look at the sky. I can see Milky Way, Orion's Nebula, Hubble Deep Field, etc. It draws out constelations, gives me info on various stars and galaxies (from various sources).
@+mrbester: I meant dedicated to the sky. Google earth does both the earth and sky.
I doubt you watched the whole thing if you are comparing this to Google Earth.
Last time I checked, Google Earth allowed me to look at the sky. I can see Milky Way, Orion's Nebula, Hubble Deep Field, etc. It draws out constelations, gives me info on various stars and galaxies (from various sources).
@+mrbester: I meant dedicated to the sky. Google earth does both the earth and sky.
You really need to see Microsoft's Visual Experience Engine in action to understand why this is better than Google Earth. Gigapixels rendered instantly. Just wait and see.
If Google Maps does space, I'm quite sure it would just be stuff from NASA or something, limited sources
If this Worldwide Telescope is as seamless as they claim it to be, it would be fantastic... every person on Earth could potentially contrinbute to this, which means different areas of the world concentrating on different parts of the sky coming together to show one truly magnificent view of everything.
Should be good (Y)
As others have said, the standalone app has extremenly high res images and also can swithc to a "sky" (or telescope) view of the stars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_%28c...er_scientist%29
why hasn't the part been surveyed when everything else around and beyond it is available?
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