In case you’re interested to be part of the testing team, worry not as another wave of recruitment for the Alpha 2 will start later this month. The tech giant has also released a subscriber-only vlog series named “Feature Discovery” for gamers who are part of the Microsoft Flight Simulator Insider program. Luckily, someone has uploaded the first episode in the series on YouTube which you can watch fromhere.
As you might have guessed, one of the salient features of the game is the vastness and rich details included in the maps. In order to achieve this, Microsoft collectedtwo petabytes of dataincluding two million cities, 45,000 airports, and all the roads & mountains on the planet.
To make the maps even better,Microsoft uses Azureto accurately determine the position of trees and the colors of rooftops. Moreover, VR support is anticipated to come in future updates asreported by UploadVRfollowing an interview with AVSIM.
For people worried about internet speeds, Microsoft uses adaptive streaming to provide the level of details based on your internet’s bandwidth. Also, acompletely offline modewill be available in the game based on real-life data.
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