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I loved MS FS back in the day! According to wikipedia, this new one will feature "Azure AI". What does that mean?

by Aardwolf 7y ago

namdnay 7y ago
Nothing
- skribbj 7y ago
  Expand?
mffnbs 7y ago
I'm guessing the "AI" was used in the geometry mapping from the sat data they used for their region maps.
- walrus01 7y ago
  Microsoft's Bing maps uses a huge amount of aerial orthophotos as well, not just satellite. Also aerial lidar for DEMs vs satellite radar data (the old srtm 1/3 for us48 states, etc).
  - mffnbs 7y ago
    I was just going by the trailer, which I'd imagine the Wikipedia page is citing, that references the azure AI and satellite data towards the beginning of the video.
- joezydeco 7y ago
  My dream feature would be weather based on live meterological inputs.
  - akhilcacharya 7y ago
    Haven't they supported that for ages? I thought even FS2002 had that
    - Nas808 7y ago
      FS2004 was the first to feature live weather
  - antsar 7y ago
    FlightGear has that, and is open-source. https://www.flightgear.org/ https://www.flightgear.org/
  - namenumber 7y ago
    You can have that right now for both X-Plane and Prepar3d with a very well made addon called Active Sky by Hifi Simulation Technologies.
- Aardwolf 7y ago
  I see! I was hoping it would have meant realistic auto generated air traffic :)
lucb1e 7y ago
In the trailer, I saw multiple planes flying alongside. I was wondering whether this meant multiplayer (no idea if this is common in flight sims, they're a genre I still want to get started in), but it could also be a computer that flies alongside?
marsantwo 7y ago
Azure AI is Microsoft's artificial intelligence platform in the the cloud , running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. I am guessing they will be using a cloud based AI service to provide AI features in the game.
mkd1964 7y ago
Artificial Intelligence could be used for a lot of things, like: weather generation ground handling at airports random bird strikes controlling in-game aircraft and their routes Realistic ATC that understands what you say (think Cortana) and responds intelligently.

I loved MS FS back in the day! According to wikipedia, this new one will feature "Azure AI". What does that mean?

namdnay 7y ago

Nothing

skribbj 7y ago
Expand?

mffnbs 7y ago

I'm guessing the "AI" was used in the geometry mapping from the sat data they used for their region maps.

walrus01 7y ago
Microsoft's Bing maps uses a huge amount of aerial orthophotos as well, not just satellite. Also aerial lidar for DEMs vs satellite radar data (the old srtm 1/3 for us48 states, etc).
- mffnbs 7y ago
  I was just going by the trailer, which I'd imagine the Wikipedia page is citing, that references the azure AI and satellite data towards the beginning of the video.
joezydeco 7y ago
My dream feature would be weather based on live meterological inputs.
- akhilcacharya 7y ago
  Haven't they supported that for ages? I thought even FS2002 had that
  - Nas808 7y ago
    FS2004 was the first to feature live weather
- antsar 7y ago
  FlightGear has that, and is open-source. https://www.flightgear.org/ https://www.flightgear.org/
- namenumber 7y ago
  You can have that right now for both X-Plane and Prepar3d with a very well made addon called Active Sky by Hifi Simulation Technologies.
Aardwolf 7y ago
I see! I was hoping it would have meant realistic auto generated air traffic :)

lucb1e 7y ago

In the trailer, I saw multiple planes flying alongside. I was wondering whether this meant multiplayer (no idea if this is common in flight sims, they're a genre I still want to get started in), but it could also be a computer that flies alongside?

marsantwo 7y ago

Azure AI is Microsoft's artificial intelligence platform in the the cloud , running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. I am guessing they will be using a cloud based AI service to provide AI features in the game.

mkd1964 7y ago

Artificial Intelligence could be used for a lot of things, like: weather generation ground handling at airports random bird strikes controlling in-game aircraft and their routes Realistic ATC that understands what you say (think Cortana) and responds intelligently.