Blogger Back Channel Event: World Wide Telescope

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Jun 21st @ 12:49 PM

Recorded LIVE

On Tuesday (June 17 2008) a small group of bloggers from across the globe were invited to participate in an online, interactive discussion with Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay; the gentlemen behind World Wide Telescope.

Along with Ambika Singh from the Microsoft team here in Redmond, we placed Curtis and Jonathan in the Channel 10 studios and streamed them live to the web via Ustream with a web chat system powered by Windows Live Translator where they fielded questions about and provided demos of World Wide Telescope.

We recorded two sessions to accommodate for global time zones. Here is the PM session recording for bloggers from Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific.

AM session available here
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#Jun 22nd @ 2:40 AM
quikboy
quikboy
I wish the real Virtual Earth was in there. Not a bunch of "tiles". I would love to zoom in closer to my neighborhood without getting that fuzzy haze. Didn't I installed some Virtaul Earth software onto my computer, so I could view Live Maps? I kinda expect it to work in WWT as well.
#Jun 22nd @ 8:45 PM
TEN
TEN
That was very interesting.
 Where can we have future schedule for such Back channel events ?
#Jun 23rd @ 2:05 PM
Nic
Nic
@quikboy - "tiles" refers to the technique in which the overall 'meta' image you are viewing (virtual earth, live maps, WWT etc.) is broken down into smaller, more easily consumed chunks of graphical data instead of one gigantic single image. 
Virtual Earth, Live Maps, Google Earth, WWT all use 'tiles' to store and display their imagery. 
If the aerial shots of your neighbourhood are hazy/fuzzy this is probably due to the source photos being lower resolution. From what I understand the Live Maps/Virtual Earth team are constantly adding more detailed, high resolution images (tiles) to their data set so hopefully that will improve soon.

@TEN - the Back Channel events are invitation only,... Wink