Microsoft Flight Simulator

Cloud-streamed satellite data and live weather rendered the entire planet flyable.

Released 2020 Developer Asobo Studio Publisher Xbox Game Studios Platform PC Genre Flight Sim Era Live service & the long tail Website flightsimulator.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Microsoft Flight Simulator inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Flight Simulation ~~1982~~Day/Night Cycle ~~1983~~Dynamic Weather ~~1999~~Planetary-Scale Streaming ~~2016~~

The Microsoft Flight Simulator series in this dataset

1982

Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 ~~1982~~

2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator ~~this page~~

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