The quick approaching Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is touchdown on PC and Xbox consoles November nineteenth. Whereas it wasn’t clear at its preliminary unveiling final summer season whether or not Asobo’s next-gen flight sim would come with VR help, the studio says it’s positively coming, and even confirmed it off in motion.
Asobo confirmed in a developer Q&A earlier this yr that VR help was certainly coming, and that, in Govt Producer Martial Bossard’s phrases, it could be “spectacular.”
And whilst you nonetheless gained’t discover point out of VR help buried anyplace within the advertising materials, the studio confirmed off VR help in motion throughout the MFS 2024 Preview occasion, letting press and creators fly round utilizing a Pimax Crystal Mild headset.
In accordance YouTuber ‘theVRpilot’, VR help will embody mounted foveated rendering, and you may test it out in motion of their video under:
Moreover, the studio detailed various new options coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 at launch, together with worldwide Aviation Careers, a Problem League system, and a brand-new World Photographer mode.
Upping the realism, developer Asobo boasts an all-new enhancement of the bottom element.
“We are able to principally get each rock on Earth now; it’s unbelievable. We up to date the aerial imagery for all the world, and we arrange a crew of specialists that collect digital elevation maps from throughout the planet. The results of these final 4 years of labor is that we now have an unprecedented degree of floor element. No one else has something like this,” says Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, Jorg Neumann.
The sport may even embody worldwide ship site visitors, helipads, glider airports, oil rigs, vertical obstructions, and “dozens of animal species worldwide.”
