I remember some bizarre incident where multiple times the media and particularly the Daily Mail/Sun I think it was were posting up Arma 3 footage and trying to pretend it was real. They seemed pretty insistent, either it's a determined attempt at a troll and they're trying to keep up the LARP or unfortunately people really are that stupid.
Some people just aren't that great at spotting the details, there's also the first post mentality to consider like with Ukraine. They'll post about that shit as if it's real regardless and then ignore any backlash when they get called out. I've noticed at least the non-boomer types have gotten a bit smarter about this now but during Ukraine a bunch of them did fall for fake shit because they didn't take five seconds to see if it was verified as real.
It's so bad now depending on the topic you could probably troll the fuck out of people by pretending something is AI generated when it's not and see how many people fall for it.
I remember watching an old documentary about USN training flight simulators from sometime in the 1980s (Cold War era) and was fucking blown away by textured polygonal graphics and other stuff that didn't start arriving on computers until around 1993 at the earliest (in very low res as in Strike Commander). It was much better than the sci fi "future tech" imagery from the 1980s movies and anime and it was contemporary and out there. I can only suppose their current sims have awesome VR systems or something.
DCS is as good as it gets, Air national guard used/uses it for A10C conversion training and switchology upkeep. And the guys who made the Mirage 2k model have worked extensively with the French AF on further work.
Graphics only count for so much in a pro sim, a lot of the stuff trained there are emergency procedures and stuff that don't require flight time to keep up to date.
How are people so retarded that they can't see that these are obvious video game graphics?
DCS graphics aren't even that good. Nobody should be confusing this with reality.
I remember some bizarre incident where multiple times the media and particularly the Daily Mail/Sun I think it was were posting up Arma 3 footage and trying to pretend it was real. They seemed pretty insistent, either it's a determined attempt at a troll and they're trying to keep up the LARP or unfortunately people really are that stupid.
Some people just aren't that great at spotting the details, there's also the first post mentality to consider like with Ukraine. They'll post about that shit as if it's real regardless and then ignore any backlash when they get called out. I've noticed at least the non-boomer types have gotten a bit smarter about this now but during Ukraine a bunch of them did fall for fake shit because they didn't take five seconds to see if it was verified as real.
It's so bad now depending on the topic you could probably troll the fuck out of people by pretending something is AI generated when it's not and see how many people fall for it.
I remember watching an old documentary about USN training flight simulators from sometime in the 1980s (Cold War era) and was fucking blown away by textured polygonal graphics and other stuff that didn't start arriving on computers until around 1993 at the earliest (in very low res as in Strike Commander). It was much better than the sci fi "future tech" imagery from the 1980s movies and anime and it was contemporary and out there. I can only suppose their current sims have awesome VR systems or something.
DCS is as good as it gets, Air national guard used/uses it for A10C conversion training and switchology upkeep. And the guys who made the Mirage 2k model have worked extensively with the French AF on further work.
Graphics only count for so much in a pro sim, a lot of the stuff trained there are emergency procedures and stuff that don't require flight time to keep up to date.