May 13th, 2021 Development Update

PARTNERSHIP SERIES – AZure Cognitive Services

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP

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FEEDBACK SNAPSHOT

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THIRD PARTY UPDATE

• As of 05/09, we have now approved 176 (+10) third parties into the in-sim marketplace and so far 85 (+1) have released 364 products (+8).
• In total, 934 products (+39) have already been released in 3^rd party stores and the in-sim marketplace. Beyond that, another 333 products (-8) from 3^rd party developers are in production (203 announced, 130 unannounced). In total, over 1,267 3^rd party products (+31) are either released or are in development.
• Airports:
  • 792 airports (+22) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 586 airports (+23) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 303 airports (+8) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 98 airports (-1) beyond the released airports have been announced.
    • 108 airports (+0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an airport is in production.
• Aircraft:
  • 150 aircraft (+5) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 38 aircraft (+4) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 23 aircraft (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 90 aircraft (+1) beyond the released aircraft have been announced.
    • 22 aircraft (+0) are not announced, but the dev let us know that an aircraft is in production.
• Scenery:
  • 295 sceneries (+11) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 280 sceneries (+12) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 23 sceneries (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 15 sceneries (-1) beyond the released scenery have been announced.
• Mission Packs:
  • 30 mission packs (+0) are either released or are in various stages of development.
    • 30 mission packs (+0) have been released on the platform so far in various stores.
    • 3 mission packs (+0) have been released in the in-sim marketplace.
    • 0 mission packs (+0) beyond the released missions have been announced.

SDK UPDATE

• General
  • The AnswerHub Q&A platform should go live within a month. We are experiencing some delays because we are collecting forum topics from the past 30 days to import into the platform and due to the website configuration.
  • The 3rd Party private section of the forum will then be turned into read-only mode once the AnswerHub Q&A platform goes live.
  • We fixed empty CG that was incorrectly set from user values.
• Documentation
  • We cleaned up the SampleMaterials sample.
  • We edited the Missions documentation.
  • We added a new tutorial for airport creation using the Airport Creation Wizard.
  • We made a major update to the Project Editor section, especially Marketplace Data & Exporting.
• Dev Mode
  • We are now ready to release the new Visual Effects editor, in a Beta version, with the next release.
  • We fixed a bug where recent projects list was not loaded when opening the Project Editor.
  • We added an “Open Recent” menu in the DevMode tool bar.
  • We added “Enable Terraforming & Water Flattening” in the DevMode option.
  • We added more precise gizmo control with shift key.

MARKETPLACE

Today there are 19 new products and 9 updated products in the Marketplace.