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 assist, 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 assist was certainly coming, and that, in Government Producer Martial Bossard’s phrases, it will be “spectacular.”
And when you nonetheless received’t discover point out of VR assist buried anyplace within the advertising and marketing materials, the studio confirmed off VR assist in motion in the course of the MFS 2024 Preview occasion, letting press and creators fly round utilizing a Pimax Crystal Mild headset.
In accordance YouTuber ‘theVRpilot’, VR assist will embrace fastened foveated rendering, and you’ll test it out in motion of their video beneath:
Moreover, the studio detailed a variety of 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 will mainly get each rock on Earth now; it’s unbelievable. We up to date the aerial imagery for your entire world, and we arrange a group 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 stage of floor element. No person else has something like this,” says Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, Jorg Neumann.
The sport can even embrace worldwide ship visitors, helipads, glider airports, oil rigs, vertical obstructions, and “dozens of animal species worldwide.”
