Comments on: Microsoft To Announce WorldWide Telescope On February 27

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By: perde

perde — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:49:55 +0000

nice

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By: 4 Days to TED « eman’s views

4 Days to TED « eman’s views — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:55:59 +0000

[...] there were any other pre-TED stories. I found one on TechCrunch stating that Microsoft will unveil WorldWide Telescope on February 27th at TED. WW Telescope is an application similar to Google Sky, a component to Google Earth, but rumored to [...]

By: 4 Days to TED » eman's views

4 Days to TED » eman's views — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:13:22 +0000

By: Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Presented at TED; Huge Expectations Set | DistrictSource.com

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:23:34 +0000

[...] of TED had the opportunity to do so today when Microsoft presented the startgazing software we wrote about last week called WorldWide [...]

By: vasudev

vasudev — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:19:08 +0000

More at http://wwtelescope.com/

By: Tim Girvin

Tim Girvin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:37:09 +0000

Hey, well I’m sitting at TED | Aspen and I’d offer that this was surely not much of a product launch announcement — it’s cool enough that you’d hope for something more complexly celebrative. But maybe it’s that — it’s so cool that you should be modest about it.

I’d like to know more to blog on it — I’m not finding more, online, of substance, other than the typical science pieces. If you know more, drop me a note at TED — girvin@girvin.com, if there’s more out there to explore and post — especially visually.

all the best — t

By: Finnish Flash

Finnish Flash — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:30:47 +0000

Microsoft introduced the World Wide Telescope a year ago in TechFest 2007:
http://www.usat...-techfest_N.htm

I guess nobody didn’t care about the telescope a year ago, and this is this just a new viral marketing campaign, right?

By: a_canadian

a_canadian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:46:05 +0000

I have seen the project, have played with the Alpha for some time and to even suggest it in the same breath as Google sky is somewhat laughable. Curtis Wongs legacy of brining Art Galleries (Barnes, Art Museum.NET) and rich, stunning information (Frank Lloyd Wrights Poetry of Structure) to people no matter their geography, class, tech abilities is unassailable and WWT does not disappoint on this front.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:44:17 +0000

As an active ameteur astronomer, i don’t find Stellarium better than Google Sky. Neither attempt to be everything to everyone. Stellarium excels in eye candy, and works without an internet connection. I have no internet connection anywhere near my telescope. Google Sky has the sky, yes, but all those HST images, and related writeup. Google Sky has, or is getting, additional Spitzer (Infrared), Chandra (xray), and other data.

But what i use is kstars. Free. Can link (via a browser) to various objects to existing web sites, and can tell me things like how far apart two objects will be, so i’ll know if they’ll fit in a field of view, and other handy things.

The good news is that there are several free or cheap planetarium applications available for lots of platforms. For example, ‘planetarium’ on the Palm pilot is shirt pocket portable, and gives me an enourmous amount of data on nearly anything i’m interested in.

By: DontMatter

DontMatter — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:23:39 +0000

#39. You’re 100% right.

#41. You know, advertising money from all them aliens…

By: vasudev

vasudev — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:01:23 +0000

WWT may or may not be released on 27th Feb. but it will be released in near future, as even Bill Gates is talking of use of software in Astronomy recently twice.
Once while releasing DreamSpark on Channel8 and again yesterday in his Stanford Speech.
http://vasudevg...-telescope.html

By: AC

AC — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:27:01 +0000

From Scoble: “I don’t believe this service will ship or be usable anytime soon. Remember that this is a Microsoft Research project and that they build things that aren’t meant to be production quality.”

So it’s not WWT that made scoble cry!

By: Calvin

Calvin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:48:51 +0000

I’m amazed how some of people our can pretend to know everything about something that they haven’t seeen and don’t know anything about. Well I guess that says it all doesn’t it?

I was fortunate to be able to get a look at world wide telescope and have used Stellarium and Celestia. While Stellarium is beautiful and better than a lot of such programs, they aren’t even close to the experience of World Wide Telescope. You have to see it to understand why Scoble said what he did.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:41:12 +0000

Awesome. A great alternative to Google Sky’s coming. Can’t wait to check it out. I HATE Google Sky. It’s run so cruddy for me.

Based on what it sounds, this could give a lot of astronomers access to some nice data, instead of having to get special trips to the Hubble.

Can’t wait to see what comes out.

By: Martin Broerse

Martin Broerse — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:20:03 +0000

As I said on my blog http://www.broe...-february-27th/ I also think this is the case. I think the URL will be http://wwtelescope.com/ .

By: dave

dave — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:38:10 +0000

this is brilliant, and it’s what jim gray was looking at and working on last year and for a while…several folks in msr were involved…can’t wait.