Microsoft set to launch WorldWide Telescope
photo credit: DanTheBeastMan
With the launch last year of Google Sky, Google brought us closer than any of us have ever been to the planets and stars in our universe. Microsoft’s answer to Google Sky, WorldWide Telescope, promises to bring us even closer. From their site:
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.
WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine™, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.
Microsoft introduced their latest product at TED on February 27th. The images in the TED video of the launch of this new service are absolutely stunning. I cannot wait to get this thing installed and travel through the galaxy!!
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