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October 19, 2020 02:50 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5KCjzV4jppw/gamers-are-replacing-bing-maps-objects-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-with-rips-from-google
Gamers Are Replacing Bing Maps Objects in Microsoft Flight Simulator With Rips From Google Earth
Microsoft's flagship 2020 game Flight Simulator was supposed to showcase Bing Maps and Azure's streaming capabilities. There's just one small problem: gamers are overwriting Bing's in-game 3D photogrammetry with entire cities ripped from Google Earth. From a report: "When playing the game, you're essentially looking at an extremely high resolution image of the entire globe in 3D -- think Google Earth but of a much higher quality," gushed one Flight Simulator reviewer earlier this summer. It may come as a shock to him and Redmond alike that gamers are importing Google photogrammetry into the simulator to replace the default Bing 3D buildings. Microsoft made a big deal of how Flight Simulator's depiction of the entire world would be powered by Bing Maps and data extrapolated from Bing Maps to create reasonably accurate 3D buildings (stand fast, accidental skyscrapers) in the same places as their real-world counterparts.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5KCjzV4jppw/gamers-are-replacing-bing-maps-objects-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-with-rips-from-google
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