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Re: Google Flight Simulator

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Post by rzzzt »

rvnx wrote: post #25
tantalor wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would be the point?

Training drone operators ? It's literally one of the hottest segment now in the flying sector. Google Maps has one of the best urban map and now a flight engine. Grand Theft Auto is now doing it, but Google Earth would make more sense because it can bring a more realistic environment. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1szcl5i/google_...

I keep thinking about this and now your comment reminded me of it: did OpenAI have a "gym" 10(+?) years ago where autonomous cars were trying to navigate Los Santos in GTA5? If not, whose work was it and why did it come to an end?

Re: Google Flight Simulator

#42

Post by satvikpendem »

Do people in the comments not realize this is a very old feature from desktop Google Earth that's just now being brought to the web version? I see so many joke comments or those simply out of the loop thinking this is something new, it's not.

Re: Google Flight Simulator

#44

Post by rvnx »

rzzzt wrote: post #41
rvnx wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Training drone operators ? It's literally one of the hottest segment now in the flying sector. Google Maps has one of the best urban map and now a flight engine. Grand Theft Auto is now doing it, but Google Earth would make more sense because it can bring a more realistic environment. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1szcl5i/google_...

I keep thinking about this and now your comment reminded me of it: did OpenAI have a "gym" 10(+?) years ago where autonomous cars were trying to navigate Los Santos in GTA5? If not, whose work was it and why did it come to an end?

Wasn't this gym thing a big task where some guy was trying to stand on a wobbly stick or something like that ? and then it indirectly helped SpaceX for their landing ?

Re: Google Flight Simulator

#45

Post by vanc_cefepime »

mrhottakes wrote: post #23
ozaiworld wrote: post #9

Fun fact: you can also generate 3D buildings in Google Earth: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/earth/gener... I worked on this but left a year ago. It was a product formerly by Sidewalk Labs and ported to work within Google Earth for over 2 years. Pretty sure it's abandoned now.

Google abandoned a product? That's strange.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Re: Google Flight Simulator

#46

Post by butlike »

This is wonderful. It would be cool if I could take off from an airport. Maybe I search an airport, and with that one "selected in search results", choose "Tools > Flight Simulator" and it starts me from the ground.

Re: Google Flight Simulator

#47

Post by butlike »

mschuster91 wrote: post #15
thimabi wrote: post #13

I wonder why Google doesn’t bother competing with Microsoft in the flight simulation niche. All that Google Maps data would be pretty cool to use for that purpose, but instead we’ve got only this toy feature inside Google Earth.

> I wonder why Google doesn’t bother competing with Microsoft in the flight simulation niche. Because the competition is already fierce. There's MS Flight Simulator and X-Plane on the commercial side, Flightgear on the open source side and geo-fs.com on the free-to-play side. There is not much Google can actually gain from making their own flight simulator.

"If you land correctly at Kai Tak you get emailed a job offer from a major airline" could work.

Re: Google Flight Simulator

#49

Post by exadeci »

satvikpendem wrote: post #42

Do people in the comments not realize this is a very old feature from desktop Google Earth that's just now being brought to the web version? I see so many joke comments or those simply out of the loop thinking this is something new, it's not.

Some people weren't born when it was released and now are 20 years old it was released in 2007

We old haha

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