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"The simulator was originally inserted as an easter egg but has since become one of the official features of the programme."
by olliesaunders 17y ago
"The simulator was originally inserted as an easter egg but has since become one of the official features of the programme."
- stingraycharles 17y agoYeah well, when you have a flight sim in your program, you almost have to do something useful with it, not ? I just wonder where they got the time to build it in the first place. As far as i know, it's not like Google had a flight sim in their portfolio before.
- snprbob86 17y agoThe early versions weren't so much of a flight simulator as a first person camera with plane-like controls and trivial physics. I'm sure they had a first person camera already for debugging and then just stuck a couple force calculations on top just for fun. For anyone who has done a 3D video game or simulation before, F=M*A level newtonian physics can be implemented in < 1 hour.