Ok, so January 3rd has come and for the most part gone. And like all deadlines.. the WWJ announcement has slipped to later this month.

But don’t fret! I have some teaser pictures of a version of the WWJava running… in a web browser!

As the applet loads, this is the view you are greeted with. It is fairly basic but you can rotate and zoom in. Left click and move the mouse to rotate. Left double click to zoom in and right double click to zoom out. Notice the frame rate in the upper right hand corner.. I was average 70 FPS most the time.

Rotating the globe. The mouse pointer didn’t capture in the screen shot; but where the mouse is the latitude, longitude and the elevation of that point is shown just under the globe.

In this image we are zooming in on Spain. Now instead of blue marble, the LandSat imagery will start to load in with the next zoom in level.

Now the LandSat imagery is loading and replacing the Blue Marble NG imagery of the default globe. Notice that the elevation is showing the “depth” now for the water in the straight.

Last teaser picture of WWJava. Notice in all the screen shots that the frame rate stayed fairly high through all the use.

Not bad for a slimed down test applet of WWJava

That is when we should see the first public release of World Wind Java.  This won’t be the “finished and ready for everyone” release mind you.  But will show how WWJ has progressed incase you have not downloaded and compiled the source yourself.

Now, the way WWJ development is progressing the core of the program won;t be open for anyone to work on and submit changes.  That is being held to just the two NASA developers.  This is because of just where WWJ will be used and code security is very important.  Developers can still download and make changes, but they will need to be reviewed first before any inclusion.  (Think of it how the Linux Kernal development is done, there is open development and closed development)

Outside of the core code, anything is fair game for development.  I’ll will post more on that as I learn it myself.