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NASA World Wind 1.4 Released

posted by Satri on Thursday February 15, @10:49AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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As expected, NASA World Wind 1.4 has been released yesterday, here's the what's new. Those interested should read The Earth is Square blog and may be interested in the World Wind Tours page. Slashdot also discuss the news, where I underline the fact that Google Earth can't be installed at work and could be a factor in favor to NASA World Wind and the Virtual Earth high resolution imagery plugin for NASA World Wind. From the what's new, you'll learn about WMS importer, time controller and a lot of new features. See also the numerous related stories below.

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Status of NASA World Wind 1.3.6, 1.4 and 1.5 [+]
The Bull's rambles blog shares the development status of NASA World Wind 1.3.6, 1.4 and 1.5 and describe some new features. From the blog: "I'll list some new features now so you all know what to expect, this is not a comprehensive list it just shows the most visible changes, there are also more 'behind the scenes' changes which will make add-on/plug-in developers drawl, such as the 3Dmodel and 3Dpolygon code." In the list, you'll find: Time controller, Atmospheric scattering and sun shading, 3D compass and scalebar, Integrated web browser and Smaller footprint. Meanwhile, you can also read import cartography's questions about the efficiency of the NASA World Wind development.
World Wind 1.4 (RC1) Is Out [+]
Anonymous Voxel writes "NASA World Wind 1.4 (RC1) is out for bug finding and testing. Earth Is Square has the announcement. Here are the coresponding Wiki Pages and Forum post as well. Bug submissions can be left at either location." You'll find additional information from the Bull's ramble blog. See also this previous story on the status of 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.
NASA New Synthetic World Plans 1 comment [+]
Slashdot discuss new NASA plans for a synthetic world targeted for 2007. Their summary: "Daniel Laughlin, Project Manager for NASA's Learning Technologies Office spoke at the International Space Flight Museum in SecondLife and said that they are using the Unreal 3 Engine to create a synthetic world for training. The mission? The moon by 2020, and Mars by 2035. He said, 'We are combining the efforts of a commercial game developer, two universities and two NASA mission directorates into the project. If we can't check off all three boxes at the end, then we'll have done a poor job.'" My question: have they thought of integrating this work with NASA World Wind?
NASA and Google Make a 'Deal' [+]
This news item is all over the place. NASA and Google signed a "memorandum of understanding that outlines plans for cooperation on a variety of areas, including large-scale data management, massively distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and encouragement of the entrepreneurial space industry". The Earth is Square blog was first to share the news, with interesting comments on the deal and NASA World Wind: "This is for a new joint NASA / Google application to bring data to the masses.. I guess NASA forgot there is NASA World Wind already to do this." (read his entry for convincing remarks). You can learn more on the deal on Slashdot, Ogle Earth, the Google Earth Blog, Bull's Ramble and finally, APB links to a CNET article.
FAQ for the Upcoming NASA World Wind Java Release [+]
The Earth is Square offers informative tidbits about the upcoming NASA World Wind Java release. Expect a public beta in April. From the short entry: "Q: Will WWJava be like the .Net version? A: Not at first. the .Net version of World Wind has been in development since 2004. The Java code has been in development since October 2006." Chad is also collecting question for his interview with the NASA WW team. Update: 02/12 21:47 GMT by S :The EiS blog added more answers regarding NWW's 1.4 release.
3D Objects Animated in NASA World Wind 1 comment [+]
The Earth is Square shortly explain a plugin which allows NASA World Wind to display animated 3D objects. You'll find the demo here [loads a 8MB avi file]. From the blog: "This is a start and still needs to be fine tuned, but just imagine tracking 3D model versions of planes and ships in real time within World Wind."
Virtual Earth for NASA World Wind [+]
adamhill writes "The amazing Casey Chestnut of /cfWorldWind fame has done it again - a plugin for NASA World Wind that displays Virtual Earth in NWW. It also hooks into the Virtual Earth Geolocator Service to help you find addresses and businesses. All the normal views are available - Roads, Aerial and Hybrid."
NASA World Wind 0.4.1 Released and Moon and Mars Layers 1 comment [+]
The Earth is Square let us know NASA World Wind 0.4.1 has been released. A few days ago he also detailed the Moon and Mars layers for NWWJava. From the 0.4.1 announcement: "The World Wind Java SDK alpha 4 - version 0.4.1 is available. Download WWJ SDK 0.4 (Zip 6.5M) or try the java web start demo 0.4 from the NASA World Wind site. [...] WorldWind Java SDK home pages at NASA Learning Technologies and WorldWind Central." As usual, I copied related stories below.
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