{"id":140,"date":"2008-11-19T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-11-19T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T22:02:00","slug":"let-wall-e-be-your-tour-guide-to-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2008\/11\/let-wall-e-be-your-tour-guide-to-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Let WALL-E be your tour guide to the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr583_ContentPane\" class=\"DNNAligncenter\"><span id=\"spBody\" class=\"Forum_Normal\"><span class=\"story-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/images\/news\/newlogos\/disney.gif\" \/><\/span> Microsoft Research and the Disney-owned Pixar are offering you a virtual tour of the universe. Your tour guide? WALL-E, the animated robot from Pixar&#8217;s latest film. You&#8217;ll need the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), a Virtual Earth for the sky and beyond, if you want to download and use the WALL-E tour. Since WALL-E doesn&#8217;t have its own voice, Academy-Award-winning director Andrew Stanton narrates the tour. Curtis Wong, manager of Microsoft&#8217;s Next Media Research Group, explained why Microsoft went with WALL-E:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WorldWide Telescope is about making science fun for everyone. By working with Disney\/Pixar, we&#8217;re enabling kids and families to discover the magic of the universe for themselves in an even more engaging way. What could be more fun than exploring space with a famous robot?&#8221;<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Research and the Disney-owned Pixar are offering you a virtual tour of the universe. Your tour guide? WALL-E, the animated robot from Pixar&#8217;s latest film. You&#8217;ll need the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), a Virtual Earth for the sky and beyond, if you want to download and use the WALL-E tour. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}