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NASA World Wind on the Java Platform

During the past year of Sun's sponsorship of NASA World Wind Java, the project has grown from a kernel of an idea into a world-class planetary (and extra-planetary) visualization system and is creating quite a "buzz!" Check out some of the links below to see what all the excitement is about.

June, 2007:

• Sun and Java: Pushing the Limits
• Sun: Take Your Java on The Go

May, 2007:

• NASA World Wind Java shown in Bob Brewin's technical keynote at JavaOne 2007. Full video at:
  http://java.sun.com/javaone
• Tom Gaskins, technical lead, WWJ, presented technical session on World Wind Java at JavaOne 2007.
• DiSTI Corporation showed F-16 flight simulator built using World Wind Java.
• Press attention:
• CNET News.com
• Government Computer News
• slashgeo
• dzone
• A sampling of the blog and forum activity around it:
• http://blogs.sun.com/kbr
• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan
• www.spatiallyadjusted.com
• http://earthissquare.com
• www.perrygeo.net
• http://bullsworld.blogspot.com
• http://processing.org

Here are a few screen shots from a joint demonstration between NASA,Distributed Simulation Technology, Inc., and Sun Microsystems which were shown at JavaOne 2007.

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