NASA World Wind 1.3.5 released

NASA released World Wind 1.3.5 today. Download it here. See the release notes here.

Expect ArcGIS Explorer in June

Concerning the ArcGIS Explorer release data...
Directions Magazine reports that ArcGIS Explorer will be released in June 2006.

Concerning future NASA World Wind releases...
On 3May06 Chris Maxwell of NASA World Wind posted about upcoming releases:

We're going to do a 1.3.5 within a week, and perhaps a 1.3.6 perhaps a month after that. Version 1.5 is a longer-term thing that we expect to show itself towards the end of summer.

World Wind Markup Language

See the World Wind Markup Language (WWML) description.

There have been a couple of new virtual globes introduced recently. I'll try to get Karl Grossner to post something about them: Wayfinder Earth and Global-I. Otherwise, Ogle Earth has additional information.

NASA World Wind 1.3.5 beta 1 released

According to Bull's Rambles, NASA just released World Wind 1.3.5 beta 1 (download). The World Wind forum is down; they've set up a temporary forum site.

I haven't looked at the new beta yet.