Thursday, March 19, 2009

New Web version of fascinating desktop app (both free!)

Hi Chad, would you please post this to the blog? I had never heard of this app before, stumbled onto it while news surfing. A highly interactive virtual telescope from MS-Research. Guess it's been around awhile, but nobody mentioned it as I recall.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

Apparently you can record your own tours, view other people's tours, morph amongst different wavelength images, zoom through space, etc. The desktop version uses your 3D video card to do some nice things not available on the web version.

Enjoy!

-Paul Loux
paul.loux@usbank.com