15 minutes ago, Air1 said:

Very cool. Not only can I find My house but if I  have a trike I can land on my street and park in my driveway? Maybe even get out and walk around. The possibility's are truly endless. 

I see a lot of community challenges coming.

 "Land on the street where the shots were fired in 1963. Make sure to take a screenshot of both your plane and the famous window".

Just now, Poppapete said:

But none of the bridges show.  I am not complaining.  What MS has done is unbelievable.

I did see a likeness for the Captain Cook bridge and the Goodwill bridge but they were admittedly quite indistinct.

4 minutes ago, Shug said:

I did see a likeness for the Captain Cook bridge and the Goodwill bridge but they were admittedly quite indistinct.

No Story Bridge, the biggest.

Oops, was that a crash/error for the guy in the back durig the final seconds of the video?

Great video and I hope we will see a lot more in the months to come, although I'm not sure if it makes the wait easier or even harder.  

  

Am I the only one that thinks Fuentes is an adorable chap? Lol

48 minutes ago, n4gix said:

Peek in your neighbor's windows too?

At which point an AI police man or police woman will AI arrest yo 🙂 And put you in AI jail 🙂

Be interesting to see Christchurch with some of the earthquake damage showing up in the sim,

3 hours ago, pmb said:

I don't recall ever having seen something like this from any developer in flightsim world.

I’ve spent most of my working life in municipal government in roles that involved extensive public consultation.  This reminds me of the type of tool we would use, rare certainly for any game development, never mind a flight sim.  Amazing!

3 hours ago, RamonB said:

Thank You Microsoft.

That about sums it up!  If anyone had told me a year ago I would read that phrase on an avsim forum (in a non-sarcastic way) I never would have believed you but here we are...exciting times!

3 hours ago, carbonbasedlifeform said:

Personally, this confirms the continued role of scenery developers at the regional level (and city level of course). Outside aerial cities, specific autogen will be needed. I don't think Azure has the ability to identify the types of trees or roads, 3D building autogen, in every region. OrbX would create all these things.

Of course that doesn't mean the default is bad.

That’s not what they said in the video, all cities on earth, all airports on earth, all roads on earth and all mountains on earth. See the screen shots of the bullet points. Azure is going to generate and detect all tress in the world, etc, etc.

Based on the two screen shots of bullet points for what they have and what they will generate using Azure, I don’t think there will be a whole lot of scenery development needed by 3rd party, unless it’s for even more detailed airports or very specific scenery items.

 

Our current simulators all have a pretty sad way of showing us the terrain, autogen buildings/cities and everything else. We never really could actually explore the world. Only a poorly auto-generated texture repeating low level of detail blurries everywhere bland experience.

With this we will... actually ...be able to explore the world. Let that sink in.

I just watched it and I'm speechless. This is just simply amazing and I'm so excited 😀😀

7 minutes ago, cmpbellsjc said:

That’s not what they said in the video

I've noticed people on the internet love to have opinions about information without actually taking in the information in advance.

It's a descendant of the "comment on an article based upon its headline, without ever reading the article".

I'm not sure anything is more frustrating online in comments/forums than this behavior.

4 hours ago, rjfry said:

The looks good in full screen.

One thing struck me offline mode if you have no internet connection how do you get it without an internet connection.

And what if we don't have money for petrol to drive to the shops.

I'm sure there'll be a distribution model which will support physical disks. I'm not really sure what you are getting at here. How will FS2020 differ from FSX in that regard?

1 minute ago, dtrjones said:

And what if we don't have money for petrol to drive to the shops.

I'm sure there'll be a distribution model which will support physical disks. I'm not really sure what you are getting at here. How will FS2020 differ from FSX in that regard?

Also, how do I get it if I don't have a computer?

/s

 

I have to think Microsoft is safe in assuming that a very large portion of their demographic for a new "flight simulator" has "an internet connection" at least part of the time.

Edited October 10, 20196 yr by irrics

1 minute ago, dtrjones said:

And what if we don't have money for petrol to drive to the shops.

I'm sure there'll be a distribution model which will support physical disks. I'm not really sure what you are getting at here. How will FS2020 differ from FSX in that regard?

that's what puzzled me on disc how many disc ???