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Users with a passion for astronomy, including kids age 14 or older, now have a chance to contribute to Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope project, by creating tours for the company’s visualization software environment designed to facilitate the exploration of the universe by transforming computers into tele... |
16 July 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Chances are very slim that any of us will actually get to climb the highest mountain in the solar system, but fact is that the Olympus Mons on Mars can already be explored by all “earthlings.” Microsoft has collaborated with NASA in order to make imagery of Mount Olympus available through the WordWide tel... |
13 July 2010
05:24 GMT |
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No less than two years have passed since Microsoft introduced a new initiative designed to democratize access to astronomical data. It was on May 12th, 2008, that the WorldWide Telescope was released, and now the project developed by Microsoft Research is entering its second year of life. The two-year anniversary wou... |
13 May 2010
05:49 GMT |
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Having expanded both Bing Maps and WorldWide Telescope with Silverlight, it was only natural for Microsoft to bridge the two projects, which even at a conceptual level, belong together. Earlier this week the software giant’s mapping, location and search platform grew with the addition of “a universe&rdqu... |
19 March 2010
09:17 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available a new release of its application for desktop astronomers, a move which is synonymous with a new stage of the development process for the WorldWide Telescope web client. Users will now be able to notice that the Redmond-based company has scrapped the Technical Preview label that accompanie... |
4 September 2009
12:16 GMT |
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No less than 100 Terabytes of imagery and data featuring the Moon and planet Mars will find its way into WorldWide Telescope as a result of a partnership between Microsoft and NASA. The content, captured by NASA’s orbiting observatories, will be integrated into the Redmond company's online virtual telescop... |
25 March 2009
03:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has unveiled the latest step in the evolution of its WorldWide Telescope, making the service available beyond the limits of the desktop client. In this regard, the Redmond company has introduced the WorldWide Telescope Web Client. Now in Alpha stage, the WorldWide Telescope Web Client is designed to allow u... |
18 March 2009
11:17 GMT |
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Google seems to be totally into our neighboring planet, as evidenced by the fact that only yesterday it introduced a new add-on to Google Earth 5.0, in which new images of the Red Planet were added, as well as a “Live From Mars” layer, that contains the latest images beamed back by the NASA-operated Mars ... |
14 March 2009
08:06 GMT |
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The WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit January 2009 release is a project from Microsoft Research designed to catalyze the production and integration of a higher volume of content into WorldWide Telescope. Available as a free download, the kit is set up to permit the conversion of astronomical content (be it... |
23 January 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Back in May 2008, Microsoft was unveiling a service designed to deliver a new perspective on the universe. Almost a year after the initial introduction of the first WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft has kicked up a notch its desktop-centric sky observatory. On January 7, 2009, the Microsoft Research team building WorldW... |
9 January 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is bringing the small robot designed as a waste allocation load lifter - Earth class to its virtual telescope, made available to computers worldwide. The Redmond company has introduced a new tour of the WorldWide Telescope, featuring the popular robot from Disney-Pixar’s animated motion picture, and i... |
19 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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At the end of September, Microsoft made available a new version of Virtual Earth 3D, complete with a new 3D control. At the same time, with the evolution of Virtual Earth 3D and Live Search Maps, the Redmond giant also married its online mapping, location and search platform with the WorldWide Telescope project from ... |
7 October 2008
12:14 GMT |
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When Microsoft states that it managed to bring space exploration to Earth, it is not exaggerating in the least. WorldWide Telescope is a Microsoft research project that is now live and accessible to all users of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Designed as a Web 2.0 visualization software environment, the WorldWide Tele... |
13 May 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Undoubtedly by now you have heard of the WorldWide Telescope, a Microsoft Research project developed by Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay. WorldWide Telescope is based on the initial concept and work done by Jim Gray, the former researcher and manager of Microsoft Research's eScience Group. In fact, just because Worl... |
4 March 2008
05:11 GMT |
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It turns out that the secret Microsoft project aimed at changing the world will actually manage to point you toward the stars. From Microsoft Research, and courtesy of the work being done by Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay, comes WorldWide Telescope, with the promise of permitting you to explore the universe from your d... |
28 February 2008
04:00 GMT |
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