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The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Re: The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Post by theYipster »

zooq_ai wrote: post #18

How TF Flight Simulator is not on VR is the biggest mystery to me. It is the most obvious killer app to showcase both the game and VR headset.

It is on VR, has been for years, and yes, it’s pretty much a killer app (imho, the only killer app.)

Re: The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Post by steveoscaro »

nottommo wrote: post #16
lttlrck wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2020 is astonishing in VR. I get the same melancholy I do on a real plane and can fly for hours sightseeing out the window. There is also a real sense of peril. It's quite the experience. I can't wait for 2024.

Why do you feel melancholy?

Maybe it's something like the French saying Le Mal du Pays

"Le Mal du Pays is usually translated as 'homesickness,' or 'melancholy. ' If you put a finer point on it, it's more like 'a groundless sadness called forth in a person's heart by a pastoral landscape"

Re: The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Post by tadfisher »

actuallyalys wrote: post #17

“The team built a “digital twin” of the Earth, much like would-be metaverse companies want to do.” Was this actually a goal of “would-be metaverse companies”? My impression is that they were much more focused on highly abstracted spaces designed to facilitate work and social interactions.

This might be thinly-veiled shade tossed at "Earth 2", ostensibly a metaverse company that sells real estate in a non-existent game for fake money (i mean cryptocurrency).

Re: The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Post by squeaky-clean »

polishdude20 wrote: post #7

It would be so cool to use Microsoft's "earth copy" for stuff other than just flight sim. They say it's the most accurate representation of the earth ever. Wonder if you can do some interesting science with that.

That's the goal of Nvidia's "Earth 2" plans, which the article mentions very briefly.

Re: The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Post by outworlder »

polishdude20 wrote: post #6
lttlrck wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2020 is astonishing in VR. I get the same melancholy I do on a real plane and can fly for hours sightseeing out the window. There is also a real sense of peril. It's quite the experience. I can't wait for 2024.

What sort of headset do you use? What's your graphics card and CPU setup? I've used a rift S with my 1070 TI and it struggles a bit!

Unfortunately, a 1070 TI will struggle a bit even without VR. It is 7 years old at this point.

Re: The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Post by outworlder »

deanCommie wrote: post #15

One thing I've always wished Microsoft would do with every version of Flight Simulator but especially this one is have an "Arcade flying" mode. I want to see the hyper-realistic rendered world in as high resolution as possible. I want to fly around the planet. But I don't want to be limited to the detailed specifics (and speeds!) of real life planes. Why can't we have a mode to make a plane as easy to fly as it is in…

Rendering _and streaming_ is already a problem at jet speeds.

Given that you can jump to any point in the planet, I don't think it's a high priority for them.

Re: The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

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Post by b212 »

polishdude20 wrote: post #7

It would be so cool to use Microsoft's "earth copy" for stuff other than just flight sim. They say it's the most accurate representation of the earth ever. Wonder if you can do some interesting science with that.

Imagine GTA on that map. Wondering how many years away are we from this.
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