FS2020 Released in August

FS2020 and Microsoft Azure AI will change everything. Here is something I found on the net ....

"“The baseline is, you can be online with friends,” Neumann said. But he and his team at Microsoft are still debating how much farther they’ll take the multiplayer concept.

<p><strong>&ldquo;Somebody in the audience today said something about a co-pilot,&rdquo; Neumann said. &ldquo;We actually had that idea two years ago. We looked at it, and it didn&rsquo;t seem like a high priority. But if the community tells us it is a high priority, then we will certainly look at that again.&rdquo;</strong></p>


<p>In one sense, Flight Simulator 2020 will never be finished. Because so much of the terrain imagery is stored in the cloud, it can be regularly updated with new construction and shifts in geography.</p>


<p>&ldquo;The world is a living place, and it always evolves,&rdquo; Fuentes said."</p>


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<p>&ldquo;We think of this whole thing as a 10-year journey,&rdquo; Neumann told me.</p>
<p>Based on my one-day tryout, I&rsquo;m ready to sign up for the journey &mdash; not so much to learn to fly, but to travel the world that Flight Simulator has built. And I&rsquo;m probably not the only newbie in that frame of mind.</p>


<p>&ldquo;Because we have reached a level of definition of the world that is so great you can actually enjoy the world as it is in real life from home, there is in this Flight Simulator iteration probably something that speaks to anyone,&rdquo; David Dedeine, chief creative officer at Asobo Studio, told me.</p>


<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s what I call the tourist dimension,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Everyone is interested in seeing the beautiful places on Earth. Now, for the first time, this will be possible in the sim.&rdquo;</p>


<p>Could there be new types of simulations from Microsoft that let you walk through those beautiful places, instead of flying over it? Neumann had a cagey answer.</p>


<p>&ldquo;There are discussions about all kinds of things, almost overwhelmingly so,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Anything could be done, once you have the entire Earth.&rdquo;</p>
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