Day 22 – Xbox Controller with Surface Pro and Worldwide Telescope Video Demo
Teaching and Learning with a Windows 8 Tablet4/02/2013
Welcome to Day 22 of working with a Microsoft Surface Pro Windows 8 tablet for educators.
I have put together a short screencast video created with the Surface Pro demonstrating the Worldwide Telescope program and the use of a wireless Xbox controller to navigate through the Solar System. Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope program caught my attention about a week ago and I was curious if I could get a Xbox controller working with it.
It was easy loading the Worldwide Telescope program on the Surface Pro and using the touchscreen to pinch and zoom in and out of Space is intuitive. I should have been satisfied there but the little boy in me just had to try out the Xbox controller to get more of a “spaceship” experience.
The Xbox controller works very well and I am able to navigate using the directional sticks on the controller and the triggers will zoom in and out. Navigating through Space data collected by NASA and seeing the fabulous photography is a joy. There is a guided tour mode but the explore mode is where the real free-style exploration begins.
I have embedded a YouTube video I created today to give you a sense of what it is like using the Xbox controller with the Worldwide Telescope Program.
All of this on the Surface Pro!
Having the Intel Core i5 processor and 4GB of RAM certainly helps with the heavy processing required to use this program. Another Wow moment with the Surface Pro.
The only downside is that the wireless receiver uses up the USB port on the Surface Pro so I cannot use the wireless HDMI receiver at the same time. I did however hook up the Display Port to a HDTV and was able to have the Worldwide Telescope display on a 60 inch HDTV and control the program from the wireless Xbox controller. Pretty cool!
Until next time...
Keep on Learning,
Keep on Learning,
Tom Grissom, PhD
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