how soon that opportunity arrive to us?
p.s. moderators feel free to improve the question to be more natural english sound lol
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What is the resolution presently?
sure:) but… lol
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today is different some place can have 15sm textures resolutions, some place have 10m terrain, but mostly is much more than 30m at terrain and i guess more than 100m some places. and somewhere there no resolution at all lol… because off places are fictions and not from real world. i’m talking about ultimate simulator of earth when modeled everything at super high resolution 1sm 1mm 1nm lol
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well there’s the home capability and then there’s the satellite imagery, and then there’s the steps in between - the editing, adding photogrammetry (or equal) and the streaming / caching of which the first part is up to Asobo (or whomever the developer will be) and the other up to the capacity and speed of the home user PC (back to the home capability)
I think Asobo is only going to get better at their part.
I think home PC capabilities are also about to expand significantly by 2025
I think better satellite and drone topographical data is coming to many places in the world but geopolitical exceptions are always going to interfere with that part of it.
The beauty of MSFS is as much what it demonstrates is possible in the near future, as what it can
already do compared to all previous iterations of flight sim.
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Eventually you will have enjoyed your experience days ago, the in home Tardis will be pricey I’m sure.
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probably never, 1mm is a pipe dream 
not even james webb can map our planet at 1mm if it were fitted with the cameras.
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Anyone watched Devs? Quantum computing so powerful you can know everything that was and will be.
We could have sims that were a perfect match of reality, we would just transfer our consciousness to the computer. No need for VR headsets.
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Never, because having that detailed resolution is just unnecessary for any real-world activity. My profession is GIS (Geographical Information Systems), I’ve created different kinds of maps and elevation models from satellite imagery. Granted, it was years ago but the best resolution we ever needed was 1m (1 pixel on the satellite image covered a 1x1m area). I can see use cases where resolution may go below this, maybe 50cm or even 10cm in case of aerial (not satellite) imagery, but no matter your camera gear, your processing power and your storage capacity, mm accuracy is just not feasible for anything. I don’t think it will happen, surely not on a global scale, though I’m sure the world rendering in MSFS will improve over the years.
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everything new are pricely. first users usually military guys, then it’s come to medicine or banking then to cinema and stuff like this, and then it’s go for everybody not much pricely:)
for now it is. but tomorrow it can be not:) question not every time about we must have. some time must have become can have, and if new system will can regenerate everything include ants colony migration, they will do that. just question of time
yeah sure, but since you can’t see ants from a flying aircraft (and in case of airliners probably not even while on the ground) I don’t really see any necessity for such a high resolution.
In the mountains the problem with imagery also often isn’t the resolution but vertical areas. With satellite imagery from directly above you can’t acurately photograph very steep or vertical mountain areas. So the satellite pictures will always look warped and stretched until someone finds a better method to capture those images. But that won’t be a job for Asobo or Microsoft I guess.
In the end there’s enough left to be fixed with the sim itself and missing and extremly low-res Bing imagery and DEM data to be added. So I definitely don’t see anything close to what you’re describing happening in this version of MSFS. Let’s talk again in 10-20 years or so. 
When earth resolution will 1mm? quantum pc? -
No, Ryzen 12 Ultimate with GDDR5 RAM with the new Radeon RDNA5 chip release.
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There is no data on that scale available so it can’t be used.
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…why do bacteria always get left out of conversations like this? What have people got against bacteria?
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Ah interesting, they really will revert back to old tech in the future?!? 
- since my current rig is already past GDDR5, even past normal GDDR6 with GDDR6X 
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Leave it to the warlords for a while. They are so proud of their little advantages.
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When will the resolution be 1mm? Never.
There simply would be no senseful usecases for this. 1cm would be the closest to get, even more likely just 10cm.
Lower values won’t provided much but increasing the amount of data needed for something changing constantly.
Even if advanced technology will bring the needed amount of power to draw such high resolution terrains on 60fps the data would have to be collected somehow
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10CM would be outstanding but that’s a way off. 1mm is ridiculous, that’s rendering data points in blemishes on runway and road surfaces, a completely unrealistic expectation.
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He’s asking when the data will be available, and what computing power / data storage would be necessary to accomplish the task. He didn’t ask if it could be accomplished today. It’s a fun thought experiment, if it could be done, what’s necessary to support it, and what could we do with it?
Whether or not James Webb could do it is immaterial. James Webb is circa 1990’s technology (earlier maybe). It just took this long to launch it. I worked with folk doing analysis in prep for it to launch back in 2010.
Someday we will laugh and think what would we do without the tech that can do it, and how did they even learn anything without such modeling capabilities???
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