Ok, more human now to write this up. Yesterday was a very interesting day.. probably the most interesting one to date. And let me say.. I don't like getting up at 3am to get to a 6am flight. :) And once I got to the D.C. area.. it took an hour to go 14 miles because of a wreck, it just so happened that I was taking a Super Shuttle van myself to get to the conference.
Not going to go too much into the presentations I saw.. they were all mostly over my head and I didn't really take any notes, though for the last one I saw.. I wish I had.
My presentation went well enough. I covered my slides (though I went through them fairly quickly.. too quickly I think.. was nervous as all hell) and went into a World Wind demo and showed some of the stuff you could do, but because of a lack of net access.. I had to do just offline examples. Most of the people there had not heard of World Wind before, or just knew of it but had not tried it. They did know Google Earth though.. and that sparked some interesting conversations (and from the gist of the British Military members that were present.. they were not keen on the program or the imagery) that luckily.. I didn't have to get too deep into.
A few questions of security with connections and data did come up and how to have secure transfers. And i pointed out how WW.Net works but that more likely WWJava would offer up the control and abilities that they would require.
Though I think my working position hampered things a bit. On the handouts they have me as NASA, but I don't work for or contract to NASA. So that proposed a bit of a problem for some people in wanting to communicate to me. Either they couldn't then or they could not tell me as much. Several people were interested in WWJava and I have already put them in contact with the people at NASA.
The one group that I did talk to also brought me over to their office to meet people there and see what they are working on. They were keenly interested in WWJava for being the engine behind what they are developing (a "3D World" is as close as I will describe it).
Afterwards they even gave me a lift back to the airport and all but offered me a job. Was a very interesting time and I am sure some new developments for World Wind will come up out of this.
