Microsoft has unveiled AirSim, a flight simulator that companies can use to train and control drones. The simulator allows developers to imagine “what-if” scenarios that would be unsafe to test in real life – such as what happens when a drone’s view is obscured.<\/p>\n
Microsoft also hopes the technology will be tested by civil aviation regulators to see how the drone behaves in extremely heavy rain or cope with a loss of positioning data.<\/p>\n
The project runs on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure, and Microsoft has given U.S. firm Airtonomy early access to the platform.<\/p>\n
Microsoft believes the technology will be used to train the AI systems that fly autonomous aircraft from air taxis to delivery drones.<\/p>\n
Introducing the product, Gurdeep Pall from Microsoft explained its importance and what it will offer the metaverse, a convergence for the virtual and physical worlds.<\/p>\n
According to Pall, the project demonstrated “the power of the industrial metaverse – the virtual worlds where businesses will build, test, and hone solutions and then bring them into the real world.”<\/p>\n