From Jayne on the official forums;

Currently the World Hub was on the roadmap to be released alongside World Update 14. This didn’t happen as intended so we inquired. The World Hub is currently going through accessibility and privacy requirement reviews, and our aim is to release it as soon as we can. We are hopeful the release will be alongside Sim Update 13 in September, depending on how the reviews go.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/scenery-gateway-system-world-hub/240399/309

Edited August 1, 20232 yr by MarcG

36 minutes ago, MarcG said:

From Jayne on the official forums;

Currently the World Hub was on the roadmap to be released alongside World Update 14. This didn’t happen as intended so we inquired. The World Hub is currently going through accessibility and privacy requirement reviews, and our aim is to release it as soon as we can. We are hopeful the release will be alongside Sim Update 13 in September, depending on how the reviews go.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/scenery-gateway-system-world-hub/240399/309

Sounds like the code is done and I think they said it was going through alpha or even beta testing. But I guess there is so much red tape, when they say "privacy requirement reviews," seems like either legal issues need to be resolved.

For the uninitiated, what exactly is the scenery gateway system please?

22 minutes ago, Falconfly said:

For the uninitiated, what exactly is the scenery gateway system please?

It's sort of a scenery depot where anybody that wants to create/develop scenery using tools provided by the gateway, can upload their work into ti, once the scenery meets certain guidelines (set by Asobo I suppose) then that scenery will be available to download (I'm guessing via market place ) into MSFS for free. Something similar to what Xplane is doing and quite successfully if you ask me.

 

Edited August 1, 20232 yr by CarlosF

42 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

Sounds like the code is done and I think they said it was going through alpha or even beta testing. But I guess there is so much red tape, when they say "privacy requirement reviews," seems like either legal issues need to be resolved.

Probably around a couple of things. GDPR requirements, probably some IP questions and ambiguities for the lawyers to hammer out. Ownership might be a concern, it wouldn't surprise me if by uploading you might be giving up some of your rights to your content in perpetuity to Microsoft, but we'll see what language comes out when the gateway comes out.

14 minutes ago, CarlosF said:

It's sort of a scenery depot where anybody that wants to create/develop scenery using tools provided by the gateway, can upload their work into ti, once the scenery meets certain guidelines (set by Asobo I suppose) then that scenery will be available to download (I'm guessing via market place ) into MSFS for free. Something similar to what Xplane is doing and quite successfully if you ask me.

 

Hopefully a more streamlined way of downloading an airport, than having to dig through the clunky store for a single airport. Perhaps something you could do from the world map itself.

Edited August 1, 20232 yr by Sethos

I will guess that there won't be any downloads that you seek out yourself involved. It'll go to everyone either by streaming or updating whatever base files we currently have. 

Which also means you won't be seeing anything too fancy and there'll probably be a limit on the amount of base assets you can add, if any are allowed at all.

I expect they'll be aiming for a default airport with the most heinous omissions or mistakes corrected that maybe also looks a bit better. And no more. 

 

4 minutes ago, superspud said:

I will guess that there won't be any downloads that you seek out yourself involved. It'll go to everyone either by streaming or updating whatever base files we currently have. 

Which also means you won't be seeing anything too fancy and there'll probably be a limit on the amount of base assets you can add, if any are allowed at all.

I expect they'll be aiming for a default airport with the most heinous omissions or mistakes corrected that maybe also looks a bit better. And no more. 

 

Now try without the tinfoil hat.

17 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Now try without the tinfoil hat.

Wut?

6 minutes ago, superspud said:

Wut?

Your response was very pessimistic without having a shred of information, which resulted in a purely speculative comment on your behalf. 

2 minutes ago, Bdub22 said:

Your response was very pessimistic without having a shred of information, which resulted in a purely speculative comment on your behalf. 

Erm, what's pessimistic about it? 

It's by far the most logical way to do it. 

 

7 minutes ago, superspud said:

Erm, what's pessimistic about it? 

 

Maybe this?

36 minutes ago, Alvega said:

I expect they'll be aiming for a default airport with the most heinous omissions or mistakes corrected that maybe also looks a bit better. And no more. 

 

Well, you can close your eyes for the last sentence if it makes you happy. 

The only analogy we have is the one run by XPlane at

https://gateway.x-plane.com/

If I recall correctly, users are limited to using the assets provided by Laminar Research in its World Editor, so these airports do tend to look somewhat similar. The airport submissions go through an approval process and are then distributed in future updates of XP. It seems to be a successful way to get better representation of things like taxiways, hangers, signs, etc., but don't go looking for bespoke terminals and the like.

I hope it allows AI parking codes