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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope finally has SpaceNavigator support

October 29, 2008

When WorldWide Telescope came out earlier this year, it blew a lot of people away — including me. It’s a phenomenal program!
However, it didn’t support the excellent SpaceNavigator device, making it much more difficult to use. I thought it was a bug at first, but it was simply not a supported device.
Today 3Dconnexion announced support [...]

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WorldWide Telescope now available for download

May 13, 2008

Two days ago we told you it’d be here this month, and it’s out already! As reported by Ogle Earth and the Virtual Earth Developer Blog, you can go download it right now.
Some initial thoughts:

It really is a stunning tool.
It has SpaceNavigator support (sort of), but it tends to freak out as soon as you [...]

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WorldWide Telescope to release this month

May 11, 2008

According to a few sources, Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope is due to release sometime this month. During a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, Bill Gates summarized WWTS in one sentence:
“This is taking data that’s very complex, gathered over many years from many telescopes, and making it accessible.”
Given the great previews that people have reported, I’m looking forward [...]

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Some videos of WorldWide Telescope in action

March 2, 2008

There is a nice video up on TED that shows WWTS in action (about 6:30 in length). It’s certainly worth watching.
Also, you can view a few other promo videos on WorldWideTelescope.org. These videos are mostly just promo pieces and don’t really show the product, though.
The official release date is still simply “Spring, 2008″.

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More details revealed about Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

February 27, 2008

Robert Scoble has admitted that a demo of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope a few weeks ago made him cry.
A snippet:
You drag around the sky. There’s Mars. There’s the big dipper. There’s Beetlejuice. Etc. It’s just like the star party you probably attended in college.
But it has one difference between any telescope you’ve ever looked at.
You [...]

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Microsoft’s answer to Google Earth Sky set to launch on February 27

February 19, 2008

According to TechCrunch, Microsoft is set to unveil a product called “Worldwide Telescope” on February 27. This product will be used through a Windows-only downloadable application.
It sounds a whole lot like the “Sky Mode” in Google Earth. From the article:
Users will be able to pan around the nighttime sky and zoom as far [...]

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