Groking the WorldWide Telescope

In March I blogged about a talk at the TED conference on the WorldWide Telescope project that Microsoft Research was working on.  Well, it looks like a Beta version of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) software is now available for download via http://worldwidetelescope.org.

Before you install the WWT application (which might also require you to also install DirectX), take a moment to watch the videos on the WWT site as well as the Channel 10 video below to help familiarize you with the features that are available. 

This looks like a fantastic move forward for semantic data access and visualizations.  I’d like to learn from the WWT project and apply similar techniques for inclusion in a Virtual Earth project that does the same thing, only looking inward at the Earth and its eco-systems using satellite and modeling datasets.  Have fun with it!

Doug White