Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope demo
Posted by Jacque on March 3rd, 2008
Dubbing Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope demo “pretty remarkable… worth a look” and a product “likely to be one of historic proportions,” Read/WriteWeb has embedded the demo video on their site.
The desktop app shows a tiled tour of high resolution and zoomable images of the night sky from a number of different telescopes and satellites. The program, which should be available soon, scales huge images down to something that users can watch and navigate on a laptop. “User generated tours should produce some fascinating education,” notes R/WW.
