> Flight Simulator simulates the topography of the entire Earth using data from Bing Maps. Microsoft Azure's artificial intelligence (AI) generates the three-dimensional representations of Earth's features, using its cloud computing to render and enhance visuals, and real-world data to generate real-time weather and effects. Flight Simulator has a physics engine to provide realistic flight control surfaces, with over 1,000 simulated surfaces, as well as realistic wind modelled over hills and mountains
AFAIU, e.g. Microsoft Planetary Computer data is not yet integrated into any Virtual Game World Metaverses? An in-game focus on real world sustainability would help us understand that online worlds are very much connected to the real world. https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/applications
You are being downvoted but I agree with your point. Just because past attempts at something were “lame” does not mean the next attempt will be lame. You could just as well say that smartphones were lame before the iPhone. After all, Nokia had Symbian smartphones for some time. HTC had Windows Mobile smartphones with a touchscreen before the iPhone. But when the iPhone happened, everything fell into place and it changed the world. I am a massive skeptic of the meta verse concept, and definitely wary of any big technology company having a lot of influence/control over it (particularly Facebook). But I also don’t think a backwards-looking retrospective on something that hasn’t been done before in the same way is useful or a convincing dismissal.
BBS > List of features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
Metaverse > History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse
TIL there's a VR version of Flight Simulator 2020 and it has the best Earth model of any game. Is that a metaverse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator_(20...
> Flight Simulator simulates the topography of the entire Earth using data from Bing Maps. Microsoft Azure's artificial intelligence (AI) generates the three-dimensional representations of Earth's features, using its cloud computing to render and enhance visuals, and real-world data to generate real-time weather and effects. Flight Simulator has a physics engine to provide realistic flight control surfaces, with over 1,000 simulated surfaces, as well as realistic wind modelled over hills and mountains
AFAIU, e.g. Microsoft Planetary Computer data is not yet integrated into any Virtual Game World Metaverses? An in-game focus on real world sustainability would help us understand that online worlds are very much connected to the real world. https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/applications
https://github.com/TomAugspurger/scalable-sustainability-pyd... describes how that can be done with Python code.