Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics
This screenshot from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 showsa biplane banking to the left.In 1999 Bill Gatespenned a moving tribute to the Wright brothers. He credited their winged invention as “the World Wide Web of that era,” one that shifted the world into a global perspective. So it’s only fitting that Microsoft later became the force behind Flight Simulator.
And, like the Wrights’ original Flyer,
the game’s legacy has extended beyond flight to embody the shift of perspective that flight allow...
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