9 hours ago, Torg Smith said:

I did not see a way to update my internet bandwidth on my profile. I just upgraded from 70Mb to 400Mb. I wonder if that is enough to get the best quality.

You will not see any better quality with 400Mb than a 70 Mb. 

1 hour ago, bashope said:

People without internet won't even know that it exists, so this is a catch-22 type of question 😄

Surely you mean a 'cache-22' type of question? 😉
 

4 hours ago, SolarEagle said:

Orbx might be able to contribute by doing smaller area's in higher resolution than whats available publicly.  You can buy imaging services from lots of places.   I don't know if that makes sense financially but if you no longer have to model everything and can rely on the data then maybe it would? 

Buying high resolution imagery is costing Orbx a fortune. So much so that TrueEarth GB hadn't made them a profit according to JV a few months ago. 
It's also what is stopping them from producing TE areas in Canada and France.
 

Edited October 11, 20196 yr by F737NG

5 hours ago, rjfry said:

I don't think so I for one will not be removing my P3DV???  I will still need to fly my aircraft that will not be in MSFS, I have in fact just purchased two more in the ORBX sale. and when what I'm waiting for in the road map arrives I will purchase more. and some other addons I am waiting for I am still flying. 

Yes, you. And surely there will be quite a few people like you.

But there will also be quite a few people like me who have already started cutting down on flight sim investments because it's becoming clearer and clearer that FS2020 will be the future.

2 hours ago, jlund said:

The only thing I miss in the presentation videos is that it would be nice if they would label the different places, so we know where in the world to look for them. 

Off course there's recognizable places like London, Paris, San Francisco, New York etc, but can any of you set a place and time stamp on other places, please?

 

We Australians can see Sydney @ 2.00 and Brisbane @ 3.04 as pointed out previously in this thread by others.

the look is amazing.

waiting for the feel of it!

thanks a million MS for the engagement with the community.

I'm glad to see that the deliverables are going to be delivered.

Different modes should be presented with the comparison of the same area not three different cities.

Other then than... amazing!

Looking fab.... I think we all agree.

14 hours ago, bonchie said:

As of right now, I believe they said it doesn't yet. That'll probably become a priority when they work on helicopters. It's not really a needed feature for fixed wing (even a grass strip is going to be cut short enough to not see grass affected by the wind).

For VFR vegetation that moves with the wind is a big factor. Low pass above an untowered runway to help detect wind direction and speed

3 hours ago, jaytee73 said:

... and current Australian Max bandwidths of 100Mps cant get near 4K TV streaming

I'm not sure where you're getting your figures from but you don't need anywhere near that bandwidth to stream 4k. Netflix recommends at least 25Mbps and Amazon recommends at least 15Mbps for 4k streaming. For gaming at 4k/60Hz with HDR on Stadia, Google's recommends a minimum of 35Mbps (and that's streaming the entire game continuously over the connection). As MSFS will be running on your PC and just streaming data (scenery) as required, you'll probably get away with a lower bandwidth. The amount of data is likely to be a bigger problem if your ISP imposes a data cap.

Lionel is such a lovable chap.

21 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

Lionel is such a lovable chap.

I have a feeling the handed him that MSFS golf polo 2 minutes before they started filming that... and it was still in plastic wrap from the manufacturer...  

 

“Lionel!!!! Put the shirt on!!!”... he rolls his eyes...

33 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

Lionel is such a lovable chap.

If you watch SAS Who Dares Wins, he's like the cuddly alter ego of Ant Middleton 😄

5 hours ago, dtrjones said:

There are millions of trees in the Orbx True Earth scenarios. If they do not use the satellite imagery, then it would take somebody years to place all the trees. Also 1000's of buildings very clearly follow the footprint of the floorplan shown on the satellite image, again clearly evidence which suggests Orbx have the capability with reasonable source imagery to create autogen from satellite images. This may not be as as advanced as Azure AI but it's there and it has enabled Orbx to create the True Earth landscapes.

They have the data that they acquired somewhere and their software converts to a format that the sim can read. From the announcement of the True Earth Netherlands Jarrad Marshall pointed that as a featured:
 

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Incredibly dense autogen vegetation. Far superior to automated OSM technology, our agn is compiled from multiple data sets, and hand-edited to ensure maximum fidelity, accuracy and density.

Data + hand-edition. I never heard they had some kind of A.I. to proccess imagery. That would be new to me.

1 hour ago, peroni said:

For VFR vegetation that moves with the wind is a big factor. Low pass above an untowered runway to help detect wind direction and speed

I’m a commercial pilot and I’m very skeptical that’s enough of a thing to be a priority. Maybe for bush pilots, but I’ve never seen someone dive to the deck to try to perceive tree movement at an untowered field.

But we weren’t talking about trees anyway. We are talking about grass moving. That’s a much different thing and challenge.

 

Edited October 11, 20196 yr by bonchie