WorldWide Telescope - The word is out!
Filed Under (MS Research) by harjeetkumar on 28-02-2008
Update: Scoble has released a recent video interview that is a lot better than the TED video… Here it is.. This is actually mindblowing!!
Scoble finally told us what made him cry. It’s a Microsoft Research project called the WWTelescope. I haven’t seen the demo for this, but it looks like its software that allows you to explore the universe, flying around wherever you want to go! Scoble also mentions that this uses the Photosynth technology, something I have personally used and seen the demo of and combining satellite imagery with Photosynth would be nothing short of Awesome! What photosynth allows you to do is take totally random images of any place say the big ben at different angles. It then takes these random images and intelligently creates a virtual tour patching these pictures together in a 3 dimensional space! I so want to get my hands on the WWTelescope now!
Update: Cool demo video below from TED
