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Might wanna be sitting down for this one...

Same with FS. I wish MS would leave Aces alone and let them make their sim.
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I think that would have been the smarter answer. Assuming it was profitable, spinning it off into a separate division would make sense. Shutting it down because it doesn't meet some new mission statement about synergy and strategic visions doesn't make sense. I can't see the logic in killing a profitable part of a company, regardless of how small it is.
 
crashaz said:
http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/EI/34879

Microsoft cedes world sim to Google?

Ugh... I still want to just slap myself.:faint:
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You know.... Its funny you bring this up.


I was playing around on Google Earth the other day, checking out Paris at a 30 degree angle, when all of a sudden, all these buildings started popping up.

It seems people have been making 3D buildings quite a bit, and alot of them (not all) are mapped with textures.. Google even features mips which would fuzz out (on the buildings) when you were far away from them, just like FS does.

.........and... I got to thinking.. How cool would it be if Google did a sim? They already have a sim, but what if they went a step farther and had exterior views and you could have your own planes like in FS?


Now... Think about it. You would have 'the world' in photo scenery...... The world! (all of Earth...)


If that could be done, with good frame rates, that would be one impressive sim.

I for one love flying with FS in TileProxy mode, though it stopped working for me a couple of weeks ago, which makes me think the groups that have photo scenery have shut down access for it by simmers. But when simming with photo real scenery, its just amazing how you can fly over famous locations and see everything from highways, to famous landmarks, to shopping malls.


A next-generation Google Sim might be one awesome thing. Might, lol... it WOULD be awesome!


Bill
 
i actually think that if a google sim would be utter crap, i actually find google earth horrid to look at from any other angle other than straight down :kilroy:
 
The future of computing will be The Metaverse, and Microsoft wants to own it. I just can't believe that they jettisoned their core talent in this area. I don't believe it. I think we will find out the truth of this shortly.
 
Hmmmm.

It looks like Microsoft is run by a lunatic and a guy who wants to relive his glory days at the University of Illinois. Maybe Microsoft IS dead??

If you click on the words "The Metaverse" in my post it will take you to the Wiki article explaining what it is. It's the future of computing. One day you will don your Track IR-like device and go shopping on Gates Street in downtown Virtual City and just move around and interact with other people just like moving around and interacting in the "real" world. Communicate by voice (interpreted if required) and do business just as if you could move around the globe at will (like Superman)-- because you WILL be able to move around the globe at will. Don't like the price that guy is charging for Number 4 Wing Nuts? Go shopping in South Africa or take a side trip to Smolensk. Compare prices from around the world and set up deals without ever leaving your home office.

Is there a problem with shipping? Troubleshoot your delivery in The Metaverse. The merging of this "reality" with "virtual reality" will become more and more seamless over time. Eventually, we will swap back and forth from one "reality" to the other without blinking. All interfaces will become one.

This is twenty years in the future. Get ready for it. If Microsoft messes up at this stage they will be out of the game.
 
If Microsoft messes up at this stage they will be out of the game.
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Honestly, i don´t give a @#| about MS disapearing or not, i do care what will happen to the FS franchise....they deserve whatever they will take, on my books, bunch of punks....

Prowler
 
My point (which I'm having a hard time making) is that FS (the "sim" idea) will consume the rest of Microsoft-- or Microsoft will join the dinosaurs. You can call it "World Sim" or "ESP" or whatever. The "ease of use" of a virtual world is just too great. Hardware and software will have to improve--and it's possible that what we call the "console" will take over and replace the clunky PC-- but doing business in the virtual world--where we currently fly-- is coming and it will take over.
 
Concerning the Google-sim bit, Aersosoft did an experiment when FSX came out. They released a little freeware scenery for Luxembourg (unfortuneately they took it off again some time ago).

This Addon got all the google material in realtime while flying, so you could fly over photoreal Luxembourg and the addon delivered the autogen and custom buildings positioned on the google photomesh. Downside was the online loading time, requiring a fast connection!

Alex
 
grunau_baby said:
This Addon got all the google material in realtime while flying, so you could fly over photoreal Luxembourg and the addon delivered the autogen and custom buildings positioned on the google photomesh.
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This has to be the most awesome feature of any terrain add-on for FSX I've ever seen!
 
I've never expected a real-time procedure, but the idea of an automated autogen-generator for photoscenery is already awesome!
 
I posted a tutorial on creating photoscenery from Google Images on the FFDS forums and the Old Hanger forums:

http://www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1226102970

It is painstaking; and don't forget, Google Earth basically only has a summer texture, no seasonal or night textures. (In my tutorial, I explain how you can fudge your basic summer textures into the others.)

To give some idea of how it turned out, the bottom half of the picture below shows some photo scenery I made for Cleburne, Texas. The top half of the picture is MegaCITY USA 2005 - Dallas/Fort Worth photo scenery. A bit of default scenery is on the left.



-James
 
You know....


We're going to end up building FS ourselves, lolol... Perhaps if we started raising money for the boys from Aces, start getting the code together, one or two of us meet with Google or someone with Earth scenery, we could probably make one 'boot kicking' sim!

(with weapons... with hybrid powerplants.. with rocket power... and with OpenGL!!!)


:d


EDIT: And perhaps a couple of versions of it for Mac and Linux... :d



Bill
 
jhefner said:
I posted a tutorial on creating photoscenery from Google Images on the FFDS forums and the Old Hanger forums:

http://www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1226102970

It is painstaking; and don't forget, Google Earth basically only has a summer texture, no seasonal or night textures.
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I've found making photoscenery very easy.

But other than for scenery development, I'm not seeing any use for a purely flat texture (with mesh elevations).

With autogen, however...
 
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