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I played the new Microsoft Flight Simulator for a week and I can't believe it's real

I played the new Microsoft Flight Simulator for a week and I are unable to believe that it can be genuine

You can go wherever in the earth in Microsoft Flight Simulator. You rotate a 3D globe, discover someplace you want to fly, click on it, and soon after a loading break, you happen to be there—either on the runway prepared for takeoff, or in the air in mid-flight. Hong Kong, the Grand Canyon, Chernobyl, the French Alps, Hawaii, the tiny city you grew up in, the metropolis wherever your office is. Anywhere you can consider of, it can be all there, and it all seems stunningly real looking. I do not know how they pulled this off, but it is really an amazing specialized and creative achievement.

Effectively, I know a tiny about how they did it. Microsoft Flight Simulator employs satellite scans of the world, courtesy of Bing Maps, which an algorithm then turns into a convincing 3D recreation environment. I am sure this is a gross oversimplification, but which is the essential plan. Get actually close to the ground—closer than you at any time would participating in the video game normally—and it really is clear what you happen to be looking at is satellite data. But from the air it is, in a pretty literal sense, photorealistic. That phrase is made use of much too freely these times, but at particular periods of working day, when the climate and gentle are just so, it seriously is like seeing footage of a serious flight.