I wonder why Google doesn’t bother competing with Microsoft in the flight simulation niche. All that Google Maps data would be pretty cool to use for that purpose, but instead we’ve got only this toy feature inside Google Earth.
I wonder why Google doesn’t bother competing with Microsoft in the flight simulation niche. All that Google Maps data would be pretty cool to use for that purpose, but instead we’ve got only this toy feature inside Google Earth.
High development and/or maintenance cost, low profit.
> I wonder why Google doesn’t bother competing with Microsoft in the flight simulation niche.
Because the competition is already fierce. There's MS Flight Simulator and X-Plane on the commercial side, Flightgear on the open source side and geo-fs.com on the free-to-play side.
There is not much Google can actually gain from making their own flight simulator.
"If you land correctly at Kai Tak you get emailed a job offer from a major airline" could work.
What would be the point?
Training drone operators ? It's literally one of the hottest segment now in the flying sector. Google Maps has one of the best urban map and now a flight engine.
Grand Theft Auto is now doing it, but Google Earth would make more sense because it can bring a more realistic environment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1szcl5i/google_...
I keep thinking about this and now your comment reminded me of it: did OpenAI have a "gym" 10(+?) years ago where autonomous cars were trying to navigate Los Santos in GTA5? If not, whose work was it and why did it come to an end?
Wasn't this gym thing a big task where some guy was trying to stand on a wobbly stick or something like that ? and then it indirectly helped SpaceX for their landing ?
I hadn’t thought about that, it’s a valid use case and likely to have increasing demand as drone deliveries become commonplace in the next few years.
Those will probably be automated
https://x.company/projects/wing/