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Augmented Astronomical Telescope
Andrei Lintu and Marcus Magnor, from the Max Plank Institute for Informatics in Saarbrucken, Germany, have created a tool to project a image upon another image seen through the eyepiece of a telescope.
Augmented Reality has been used before with s...
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Earth Simulator Centre
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The Earth Simulator Centre in Yokohama, Japan, has a new attraction along with its supercomputer: a mini-theatre that will allow scientists to interact with data in three dimensions. The theatre extends the experience of working with complex dynamic systems. "You can place a massless virt...
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VirtuaWin 2.10
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Using a virtual desktop manager is a way to organize applications over several "virtual" desktops. For example if you use two virtual desktops you can put a webbrowser on desk 1 and by using a desktop manager "switch away" the webbrowser and it will seem like you have a new empty workspace (des...
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AstroGrid
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Astronomers throughout the UK now have a valuable new research tool at their disposal which may lead to new discoveries and improved understanding of the physics of the Universe.
Launched this week, AstroGrid provides a unique way of accessing, processing and storing astronomical dat...
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The Millennium Run
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Cosmology News
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One of the biggest computer simulations ever run is illuminating the deepest mysteries of the universe
The simulation by an international team is the biggest ever attempted and shows how structures in the Universe changed and grew over billions of years.
The Millen...
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Virtual Earth 3D
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Microsoft: Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data...
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Second Life
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Second Life (SL) is a privately owned, partly subscription-based 3-D virtual world, made publicly available in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, and founded by former RealNetworks CTO Philip Rosedale. The Second Life "world" resides in a large array of servers that are owned and maintaine...
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Google Earth
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Search engine Google (google.com) announced on Friday it plans to work with NASA on a variety of research and development activities relating to supercomputing and nanotechnology.
The two organizations have signed a memorandum of understanding that details plans for cooperation in a vari...
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Vplanet Explorer
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Skimming virtually around 3D scenery is no longer the preserve of experts. New software developed in Europe lets users browse and interact in three dimensions with any part of our planet.
Everyone from tourists to land planners stand to benefit.
Terabytes of data daily flow downwards from r...
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World Wind
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NASA has released images of the Earth generated by its "Blue Marble: Next Generation" technology, which has allowed the space agency to create some of the most detailed observations ever made of the world.
The new imagery provides a detailed look at an entire year in the life of the planet....
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Entropia
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What is the Entropia Universe? The Entropia Universe is more than a game. The Entropia Universe is for real. Real people, real activities and a Real Cash Economy in a massive online universe. Join people from around the globe who use the Entropia Universe currency, the PED, to develop their characte...
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Gaia Online
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Founded in 2003 by a few comic book fans in a garage, Gaia Online has become the fastest-growing hangout on the web. Millions of teens come to Gaia every month to play games, make friends, and participate in the world's most active online community. Gaia provides a fun, social environment that inspir...
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There is a beautiful virtual world where you can: * Create a 3D avatar * Hang out with friends * Play games * Build a home * Design and sell things Read more
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Chat
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IMVU is a graphical instant messaging client (3D chat) with more than 7 million users.[1] Currently, it is in public beta, and has been available since 2004-09-18.[2] It is developed by IMVU, Inc., founded by Will Harvey, a video game developer and founder of There. According to the IMVU site, the 3D...
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Metaplace
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Build a virtual apartment and put it on your website. Work with friends to make a huge MMORPG. Share your puzzle game with friends. Metaplace is a next-generation virtual worlds platform designed to work the way the Web does. Instead of giant custom clients and huge downloads, Metaplace lets you pla...
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When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D treesmillions of them. Now he wants to give them away. Trees, like almost all objects in virtual worlds, whether in video games or Internet social communities like World of Warcraft or Second...
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Euro-VO DCA project
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In the past 50 years, the number of telescopes worldwide has exploded, creating at the same time vast quantities of information. This has boosted research considerably and increased knowledge of our place in the Universe. But much more remains to be discovered, if only astronomers had access to al...
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Ovi Maps 3D
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Ovi Maps 3D beta We combine super high resolution photos with intelligent geometry to give you the most accurate immersive 3D world possible. Everything from the sky to the street. Read more Ed ~ Requires an install of the Ovi Maps plugin to see the world in 3D...
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