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Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI

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Post by giancarlostoro »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #3
bitxbit wrote: post #2

How long would it take to model out the entire world in reasonable detail? Something similar to open world games such as GTA V?

It’d be kind of amazing if GTA 6 was using this kind of tech to create its open world environment when it releases. Sadly though, I expect it will need to have a free to play mode with micro transactions to support the ongoing investment into keeping the infrastructure up for delivering the open world imaging.

Moreso if they donate resources to OSM to make such data more reliable and accurate and then they just freeze a snapshot when they contribute to make a game from.

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Post by faebi »

To be honest, I expected the AI to be a lot better and nuanced. It‘s good enough but does not catch a lot of things who should be obvious based on satellite and street view data. I think the google data would be a better source than bing but I understand the issue there.

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Post by ponker »

Havoc wrote: post #4

The cities they picked to hand model are bizarre as hell. Major ones like London and Paris are missing but completely unknown ones are in.

Maybe those are so well known that errors would get easily noticed so they’d have to do a much more thorough job?

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Post by vlunkr »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #3
bitxbit wrote: post #2

How long would it take to model out the entire world in reasonable detail? Something similar to open world games such as GTA V?

It’d be kind of amazing if GTA 6 was using this kind of tech to create its open world environment when it releases. Sadly though, I expect it will need to have a free to play mode with micro transactions to support the ongoing investment into keeping the infrastructure up for delivering the open world imaging.

Considering GTA V has made literally billions of dollars I doubt they'll need any free to play mode.

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Post by ornitorrincos »

tpmx wrote: post #10

Before anyone gets excited and goes to buy the game outright: First: Please consider trying out the game via the Xbox Game Pass for PC program instead. $5/month, $1 for the first month instead of buying it outright. Do remember to cancel. Thank me later. Second: The whole download/install experience is a trip. You need to download about ~90 GB of data (no problem!). However, the downloader is abysmal. It's not optimi…

Second this, visually its impressive, but on the rest of the simulator it feels weird, specially the control sensitivity.

I haven't done a full comparison yet because the plane I could compare more directly would involve stock vs payware, which is not really fair.

I do think that they can improve it with time but definitively feels rushed.

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Post by bob1029 »

I feel like Microsoft needs to take this a step further and just put the simulation on the server too.

Considering their current global footprint (latency) and the fact that the game already requires a massive amount of always-on bandwidth, it would seem like this is a less painful conversation in this case.

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Post by bluedevil2k »

tpmx wrote: post #10

Before anyone gets excited and goes to buy the game outright: First: Please consider trying out the game via the Xbox Game Pass for PC program instead. $5/month, $1 for the first month instead of buying it outright. Do remember to cancel. Thank me later. Second: The whole download/install experience is a trip. You need to download about ~90 GB of data (no problem!). However, the downloader is abysmal. It's not optimi…

Yeah, the load times on this are crazy. 1-2 mins to start the app and get to the main menu, another 30s-1min after you pick your itinerary to get to the runway. And I have one of the fastest chips (3900x), m.2 SSD, and RAM. How long are people willing to wait to play it, especially given how often I crashed in my first few flights.
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