Flight Simulator utilizes real-time weather data to draw up conditions worldwide to make this possible. Microsoft partnered with Swiss company Meteoblue to map the worlds weather condition patterns. Meteoblue divides the world into 250 million boxes, which each step wind speed, temperature, pressure, and a lot more. While the weather data was initially just going to be restricted to airports for virtual pilots, Flight Simulator is now reproducing real life weather condition occasions with incredible accuracy.
Virtual strormchasers have actually collected in the skies above the Gulf of Mexico to fly straight into Hurricane Laura. The results demonstrate the amazing realism in Microsoft Flight Simulator, just as Hurricane Laura threatens devastating damage in the genuine world. Players have actually been flying straight through the eye of the storm, around the external edges, and however far up that planes have frozen over and needed to be de-iced.
Microsoft Flight Simulator gamers have actually turned into virtual stormchasers today, hunting down Typhoon Laura as it approached the US Gulf Coast. While Texas and Louisiana brace for what is being referred to as an “unsurvivable storm surge,” the real-time weather condition inside Microsoft Flight Simulator is providing a surreal phenomenon for players.
Update, August 27th 8AM ET: Articled updated with remark from Meteoblue.
AFAIK all the green dots are other gamers.
I feel like MS Flight Sim is going to create a brand-new category of video gaming events where individuals track down IRL weather events in-game to experience them.
Its so unbelievable that this things is possible. pic.twitter.com/ZBws2qFIbc— Technically Alex ✊ (@TechnicalDIY) August 27, 2020
” Yesterdays typhoon was extremely stunning to look at and was precisely anticipated by our designs even days ahead,” explains Mathias Müller, Meteoblue co-founder, in an email to The Verge. “We are very delighted that real-time weather condition is now part of Flight Simulator.
The virtual views have actually permitted players to track Hurricane Laura throughout the moments before it made landfall as a category 4 typhoon with 150mph winds. A YouTube user likewise captured the virtual experience of flying through Hurricane Laura, showing just how well the storm cloud formations are depicted in the video game.
Microsoft Flight Simulator has actually been wowing gamers given that its release on PC previously this month.
Microsoft Flight Simulator has been wowing players since its release on PC earlier this month. You can also get up close to elephants and giraffes in a safari flight over Ethiopia if hurricane chasing isnt your thing.
The outcomes show the unbelievable realism in Microsoft Flight Simulator, simply as Hurricane Laura threatens devastating damage in the genuine world. Flight Simulator utilizes real-time weather condition data to map out conditions around the world to make this possible. While the weather data was initially only going to be restricted to airports for virtual pilots, Flight Simulator is now replicating genuine world weather condition occasions with unbelievable precision.
