Thanks to this, the simulator can present most parts of the world in 3D photorealism and other parts in high resolution. Azure AI analyzes map data and photogrammetry to generate photorealistic 3D models of buildings, trees, terrain and so on.

On July 13, 2020, Microsoft opened presale and announced that Flight Simulator for PC, stylized as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, will be available on August 18, 2020.įlight Simulator will include the Asobo game engine and will use Bing Maps data, accessing over two petabytes of cloud data on demand.

Some players have received the Alpha version as part of the game’s Insider program. Three-dimensional representations of global functions such as terrain, trees, grass, buildings and water will be generated using Microsoft Azure technology. It will simulate the entire Earth using textures and topographic data from Bing Maps. This is the eleventh main entry in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, preceded by Flight Simulator X. It will be released on Augfor Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Flight Simulator, commonly known as Flight Simulator 2020, is the upcoming flight simulator developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios exclusively on Microsoft Windows and Xbox One.