Get into the cockpit, adjust the configuration, ignite, taxi, take off, rush to the sky, cross mountains and rivers, “Microsoft Flight Simulator” helps you restore your flying dreams. Recently, “Microsoft Flight Simulator” has been launched. Xbox Series X/S game console.
As a classic flight simulation game, “Microsoft Flight Simulator” has been in operation for 40 years. It has a vibrant world, an improved body, a new list system, a variable weather system, a day and night engine, start-up modeling… Enthusiasts bring an unprecedented and more realistic digital twin world and unique flying experience. All of this is inseparable from the help of Microsoft Azure Intelligent Cloud.
According to Microsoft, during the development and operation of “Microsoft Flight Simulator”, Azure provides a platform for game development, computing resources, storage capabilities, network connections, digital twins, artificial intelligence, and data analysis capabilities. By empowering games like “Microsoft Flight Simulator”, Azure provides computing and service capabilities that cannot be achieved by previous technologies, and at the same time brings us first-party and third-party developers an ecological environment to create such a high-quality experience.
The world in the game is exactly the same as the earth, including airports, airplanes, runways, ground, flight conditions, and local weather conditions. They are all digitally simulating the real earth experience, rather than using photos of the earth. If there is a variety of trees on the earth, and an additional building will be added to the real scene of the game. This requires a lot of data processing and cannot be done without background support.
Microsoft’s intelligent cloud Azure brings exponentially increased computing power and storage capacity to “Flight Simulator”, which can help build digital twins that accurately render the real world:
- 2.5PB-level Bing map data and images , including more than 37,000 airports, more than 2 million cities, 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees and 117 million lakes, all of which can be found in Microsoft Smart Preprocessing and storage on the cloud. Through the global computing capabilities of Microsoft Smart Cloud, all the information collected related to the aircraft itself, including paths and objects, can be rendered into the game to form a more realistic environment and stored in Azure Storage. It can be used at any time through optical cables all over the world. Transmit to any number of players.
- Real-time atmospheric simulation and real-time weather. Microsoft Smart Cloud supports the integration of real-time data sources. The collected climate and environmental data can be processed in Azure Compute as real-time content and stored content. When the player is flying, the real weather can be seen on the device. Status, enrich the game experience.
- Artificial intelligence air traffic control voice. The Azure cloud-based AI service provides air traffic control voice for pilots of Microsoft Flight Simulator, which reflects real-time aircraft traffic conditions and air traffic control communications around the world in real time.
- Azure PlayFab is a complete back-end service provided by Microsoft for game companies to build and operate real-time games. It provides an intelligent platform for the operation and management of games. In the game, Azure PlayFab creates a powerful market and provides additional features from day one, such as community-contributed content, such as the addition of details of airport models, to create a more realistic experience.
- Cloud-supported multiplayer game function. The Microsoft “Flight Simulation” game server pool is managed by the Azure cloud, which supports simultaneous multiplayer games and experiences a digital twin that is infinitely close to the real world.
The significance of “Microsoft Flight Simulator” is not limited to games and simulations, it is a brand new way of game development. Microsoft believes that future games will be supported by hardware devices such as VR/AR GPU, AI and cloud technology, and cloud gaming as the foundation, and continue to evolve. The accurately simulated earth in this game not only allows players to have the ultimate flying experience, but also can be applied to other industries, such as climate model construction, disaster warning, infrastructure site selection and so on.
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