http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/97.aspxWorldWide Telescope community chat. enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/thread/1465.aspxThu, 15 May 2008 03:36:22 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:1465garygech0http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/thread/1465.aspxhttp://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=97&PostID=1465<p>I think that the World Wide Telescope is a great product, much better than google earth.</p> <p>There are a number of reasons, but I believe the major one was the level of collaboration and the true scientific nature of the product.</p> <p>Overall, there needs to be&nbsp;a way to delay the tours, or have them load in the background. Background loading is a technology used by some web based television services that are integrated with microsoft media center.</p> <p>My point is that you should be able to download a number of tours completely.</p> <p>In addition, there needs to be a way to incorporate amateur images of common objects. That was one of the goals of google video which never really caught on but youtube did.</p> <p>&nbsp;I don&#39;t think initially the product will scale like you tube. But if the technology is powerful enough, I would imagine the same structure can be used for anatomy to histology, or any scientific structure which combines knowledge with images.</p> <p>&nbsp;Gary</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>