NASA World Winds Java SDK9/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() … why is the mouse cable not coming? is it fixed to the table? Let me cross my arms and try control the mouse with my right and keyboard with my left … oops I crashed again Content was a problem: although NASA provided the base imagery it was up to the user to provide imagery at higher resolution …” ” NASA Wold Wind started pretty much in the same way as a single program with limited functionalities still due to the fact that it is open source the community soon added more and more features. I try to gently pull the cable towards me but it is going to disconnect ![]() damn! why is the mouse on the left of the keyboard? And why is the keyboard so much to my right … How did it get there? …. That went well … time to fly into Cape Town and show some of this … Google (GE) and Microsoft (VE) control what we can see and how we see it” “ We have all experienced the first generation of virtual globes and the wonderful way they display more and more types and quantities of information … BUT they are all SINGLE and PROPRIETARY programs whose content and functionalities are dictated by the respective providers. NASA World Wind (.net version) globe is rotating beautifully showing off the Global Clouds layer dominated by a mega-typhoon over Vietnam … great view! Not serious, a second screen further away is sizing correctly … and the audience moves across the room. The first hint of trouble comes when one of the two large LCD screens, the one at my demo station, refuses to size correctly … planet Earth looks more like a banana than a globe. I set up well in advance my magic local tileservice to feed images at a fast & furious pace. Strangely enough for once I had prepared well and even rehearsed the demo to be sure I could do the best with my 10 minute slot. Well, the standard was below sufficiency. Someone had hinted “so to set the standard!”. ![]()
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