Well we have done it now. Just like sky-net, we have broken the bonds of installation and hopped on to the web. Last week we announced our preview of the new WWT Web client. The web client not only allows access to a large part of WWT's functionality without having to run a full setup, but it allows...
We have put out a couple of tools for people to convert their own data to WWT format. You can process pictures of individual objects in the sky using WWT StudyChopper , and low and medium resolution panoramas, planetary textures, and sky surveys using WWT SphereToaster . You will still have to put the...
Today, t he WorldWide Telescope gets an update ... a major update. Just have a look at this screenshot... That's right - WWT has gone 3D . You can fly through the Solar System now! And keep flying out, out through the hundred thousand stars in the Hipparcos Catalog, out further till you see (a model...
TechFest 2008 began promptly at 9:30 a.m. today, with a five-minute video about Microsoft Research's mission, featuring Rick Rashid , senior vice president of Microsoft Research, along with Tony Hey , corporate vice president of External Research, and the directors of the organization's six labs...
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Filed under: Research, TechFest, Microsoft, Rico Malvar, Rick Rashid, P. Anandan, Merrie Morris, Roy Levin, Tony Hey, Andrew Herbert, Jennifer Chayes, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, WorldWide Telescope