Microsoft Flight Simulator

Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by mffnbs on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:13AM (#20274365)

I'm guessing the "AI" was used in the geometry mapping from the sat data they used for their region maps.

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by walrus01 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:14AM (#20274378)

Microsoft's Bing maps uses a huge amount of aerial orthophotos as well, not just satellite. Also aerial lidar for DEMs vs satellite radar data (the old srtm 1/3 for us48 states, etc).

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by mffnbs on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:54AM (#20274806)

I was just going by the trailer, which I'd imagine the Wikipedia page is citing, that references the azure AI and satellite data towards the beginning of the video.

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by joezydeco on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:32AM (#20274575)

My dream feature would be weather based on live meterological inputs.

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by namenumber on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @11:22AM (#20275136)

You can have that right now for both X-Plane and Prepar3d with a very well made addon called Active Sky by Hifi Simulation Technologies.

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by akhilcacharya on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:49AM (#20274753)

Haven't they supported that for ages? I thought even FS2002 had that

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by Nas808 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:18PM (#20281314)

FS2004 was the first to feature live weather

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by antsar on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @11:09AM (#20274992)

FlightGear has that, and is open-source.

https://www.flightgear.org/

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Re:Microsoft Flight Simulator by Aardwolf on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @11:01AM (#20274908)

I see! I was hoping it would have meant realistic auto generated air traffic :)

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