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NASA WorldWind is worth a check.
“World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.”
WorldWind uses Managed DirectX (MDX) to acheive this. But what caught my attention was /cfWorldWind, when I was reading Mike Hall's weblog. Managed DirectX 3D Mobile (MD3DM) can do wonders and this is a proof of it.
One of the screen shots of /cfWorldWind:
Microsoft always has this tradition of code-naming their products in a unique way. “Hawaii“ is the code name of the Visual Studio IDE to be launched after Oracus. It definitely grabs the attention of developers. Sometimes it does scare developers when they begin to think - “Ok, so what about Whidbey? Is is already out-dated? Do I need to re-learn Hawaii“, “What about Oracus? Whats the difference in it?“. Hawaii is supposed to be a completely re-designed toolset.
So far I havent come across any resource on the Microsoft website which shows a complete product release and platform support diagram which talks about the upcoming releases. A consolidated view of the release strategy of Microsoft would be interesting to see.
[eWeek]
Update:
I wonder if this is good news or bad news but its true that OpenNETCF.org is going to be acquired by Novell.
Miguel de Icaza on a press note -
"OpenNETCF.org is key to Novell's business strategy in the embedded space. We realise the potential benefits for our customers to be able write code in C# and run this under Mono not just on a server or desktop machine, but also on PDAs, smartphones, games consoles or even internet toasters. When it comes to .NET technologies and knowing the constraints that embedded devices have, the OpenNETCF.org folks really know their stuff. And we just had to have them."
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