Microsoft’s flight simulator was revealed earlier this year

Microsoft is working hard to add virtual reality to its upcoming
Microsoft Flight Simulator a few days after it told YouTubers VR
would not be part of the initial launch. 

In an interview with AVSIM, Jorg Neumann, head of
Microsoft Flight Simulator said the tem is trying its “darnedest”
to add VR support to the
program.  

“Right after the E3 trailer came out there was a lot of
people making that exact assumption, that ‘Oh yeah, this better be
supporting VR right from the get go.’ It honestly wasn’t our plan.
But we are listening, and we heard it, so we will try our darnedest
to make it happen. Whether or not we’re going to pull it off for
launch, we can’t commit to that at this point in time, but we are
aware of the desire […] We will try to prioritize that over other
things,” he said in the audio interview^[1]. 

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Microsoft’s flight simulator was revealed earlier this
year

Earlier this year Microsoft announced the impending launch
of Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 10 and its Xbox gaming
console. The program relies on aerial imagery from Bing Maps that
have ultra-high resolutions and machine learning technology from
its cloud Azure, which creates 3D scenes from the
imagery. 

Since announcing Microsoft Flight Simulator at E3 2019,
game reviewers have gotten their hands on it and according to
media reports^[3]
have raved about the accuracy of the mapping and the realism of the
graphics in the flight simulator. 

Microsoft touts accuracy 

In a blog post^[4], earlier this fall
Microsoft touted the new flight simulator with Mike Nelson,
Xbox Wire Editor saying the Flight Simulator is so accurate that
“Visual Flight Rules are totally applicable.”  He meant that
Microsoft^[5]
was able to recreate the world so accurately that gamers can
navigate using known roads, rivers, and lakes to find their way
around. 

“What’s astonishing here for MSFS is
that this is all reproduced on a global scale, allowing you to
truly see the world from the comfort of your virtual cockpit,” he
wrote. “Microsoft Flight Simulator is shaping up to
not only be a tentpole example of how to create a flight simulator
today, but also work as a fantastic learning tool for the classroom
and for those that want to ‘see’ the world without leaving their
house. It’s all here and it’s all very impressive to
behold.”