Okay, this is amazing…
So the Microsoft Mixed Reality Portal is… well… meh. But last night my son and I loaded the Steam VR environment and what a difference (not being a gamer, Steam is foreign to me). It has a much nicer interface, much more realistic environment, and loads and loads of applications available in this portal. No comparison, really.
We also managed to get Google Earth VR up and running. I was stunned. Totally blown away, even more than expected. Click - drag - click - drag, fly - fly - fly, click… Boom. Going from an overall view of the planet, to a zoomed in aerial view of a city, to a fly-around 3D landscape, to a 360 degree street view, was just that simple. Gave me everything I was looking for and then some. In one instance I clicked to go to street view and didn’t notice it was an actual address… and I was teleported inside a shop in Jackson, CA. It took a moment for the surrounding images to come into focus, but once they did… I could read the price tags on the items in the shop. I casually walked out of the shop and back to the street, and off I went. The detail was amazing, I could read the menu’s in the restaurant windows.
Just incredible. This VR investment is money very well spent.
I’m going to spend days during this lockdown, revisiting locations I’ve been to in the past, and going to places I’ve never seen before. Just incredible. Can’t wait to do it in my virtual aircraft.
Since I really only created this thread to announce that the G2 was finally shipping in the U.S., and it has branched out into everything from motion sickness to Google Earth, and now has very little to do with MSFS2020 anymore, I think I’ll step out and let it disappear into the archives.
Thanx everyone,
Jim-Sim