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[Bernkastel]

Microsoft wants to bring back Flight Simulator to show it supports PC

It's been a long wait.

www.pcgamer.com

The result is something that, judging by the trailer, looks impossibly vast and real. Spencer says that 2 petabytes of geographical data is used to seamlessly stitch together Earth. The trailer rushes past cities, swoops down so we can see elephants and giraffes hanging around and then soars the mountains for some truly incredible views.

 

[Larxia]

I'm confused...
Is that the amount of data that was "used" as reference to create the earth in the game, or is it the actual weight of the map in the game?
Do you have to download 100 tera when you under a new city or something?

 

[Pagusas]

Microsoft wants to bring back Flight Simulator to show it supports PC

It's been a long wait.

www.pcgamer.com

With all this data, I am surprised Microsoft does not have its own Google Earth.

Many of the contracts signed for this data may outright exclude the use of them for commercial mapping software due to exclusivity agreements.

Also my own rumor sources told me this is a executive pet project.

 

[Outrunner]

I'll wait and see, considering what happened with Crackdown 3 I don't trust anything they promise anymore.

 

[KyoZz]

Can't wait to try this

 

[Tesseract]

wonder how many gigs are getting stored and trashed at once, this game was built for solid state

 

[Bernkastel]

I'll wait and see, considering what happened with Crackdown 3 I don't trust anything they promise anymore.

What has any of that has to do with this ?

 

[pr0cs]

If ever there was a good plausible use for "the cloud" flight sim is it.
I'm just glad they're making another one

 

[Vasto]

I have watched this trailer in 4K / HDR about 5 times. This looks stunning.

 

[Havoc2049]

Microsoft wants to bring back Flight Simulator to show it supports PC

It's been a long wait.

www.pcgamer.com

With all this data, I am surprised Microsoft does not have its own Google Earth.

They do.
Bing Maps

 

[Bernkastel]

They do.
Bing Maps

Bing Maps is similar to Google Maps and is powered by HERE Maps. I am talking about something like Google Earth which uses satellite imagery.

Can't wait to try this

Microsoft had something similar.

Microsoft Research Maps - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[CyberPanda]

I expect a lot of sales from ISIS.