Flight Sim vs. Real Life - (Quiz)

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[@ethanfay6091]

The easiest way to tell, is that sims will always be much brighter than real life. You also have to look at small details like window glint/distortion.

[@AirCanada1086]

That’s also how I guessed it

[@icekidMEMER]

​@@AirCanada1086 same

[@leoalwan6919]

was ez

[@Hipper23]

Yeah also if the graphics are rubbish, you can tell it's irl

[@awesomeman116a]

@@Hipper23 Shh

[@starmaker23871]

Real life : *phone camera quality* MSFS : *8K*

[@Marshall1q.]

fr

[@rarityadf11f]

FR

[@starmaker23871]

What happened during 3 days..? Thanks for the likes guys!

[@GGGaming-by9vz]

​@@starmaker23871 fr

[@ytchannel6569]

the clouds give it away for me

[@boogiegaming1806]

Moving cars :real Non moving cars : sim Camara quality:real Realism:sim

[@GardenData61371]

Hotel: Trivago

[@tanks_alot4674]

Clouds detail of each one: sim Clouds that look blended: irl

[@kianandtheviolin]

Cars move in the sim, also the easiest way to tell is that the sim doesn’t have vibrations if you look at the window

[@juanleon3875]

@@GardenData61371 Hotel: Trivago

[@mini046]

The clouds are more fluffy in the sim

[@DruggyShrek]

in my opinion thier both the same, becuse irl if thier are massive tall coulds with the sun beaming on them, they look pretty goddamn fluffy.

[@SpeciaListWasTaken]

I would call them dense not fluffy

[@erikaitsumi3004]

Real Life really needs to upgrade it's graphics

[@leobyrod8307]

For sure

[@trukmikaelson9525]

AGREE!!!! LMAO🤣

[@speederLB]

Hahaha😂😂😂

[@arielkunz2461]

😂😂😂

[@michaelwisdom456]

😂😂😂💔

[@brotogamestv]

Real Life needs a graphic Update 💀

[@benjaminburnes2007]

😂

[@TheGameKiller_12345]

😂

[@romka6965]

May be camera quality update?

[@zildjiangalliher6320]

I blame Elon for not updating 😂😂

[@DesignerDrew]

Thats what im saying lol

[@LucaD-hp4kp]

you could tell the difference easily because of the quality. Msfs was very high quality and real life was probably recorded by someone's phone camera.

[@SirAxel.]

I got all of them right except for the one with the snow. The easiest way to tell is that the flight simulator is always looking more polished.

[@goldenrim952]

The clouds gave it away for me ngl

[@hello_person_wathing_beatSaber]

same

[@roblox1387]

Same

[@sebastianmcdermott234]

same msfs clouds are too fluffy and nice looking

[@TheCasualSirenEnthusiast]

Same

[@choppchopp9975]

For me it was the colours of the sky that gave it away

[@theunrecorded3997]

I could tell the last one was MSFS because I literally saw a car disappear💀

[@robjustil8722]

where?

[@moomoocow4795]

the bottom right of the screen

[@mtbeyker9404]

fr🤣

[@iamjman56]

Same bro😂😂😂

[@iccyboi1541]

Damn ur attention to detail is immaculate

[@llepicub]

#3 legit tripped me up. The lighting is too dark, the clouds are not puffy enough. And the terrain is far too blurry to be the sim. And yet it is

[@Greysanimatronicproductions]

I like looking for details like cars or people moving, it really helps

[@kiwi_fartist]

i think the best way to differentiate them is by looking for imperfections, flight sim just is a little bit too perfect

[@akosabraham7914]

The plastics and screws in the cockpit gave it away

[@jackbuck7480]

You can also look at the roads, flight simualtor doesnt have traffic

[@C0ncep1t]

@@jackbuck7480 It does, but it's very little.

[@bbrenddon]

Yes and I got them all

[@sezuin_6577]

Flight sim always has the same trees everywhere

[@gilbertbrown2636]

You can tell because msfs graphics compared to real life is too... *_perfect_*

[@GeneralAviationist]

To tell real life is really easy 1.Blur and brightness if brightness is low its real 2.aircraft reflections 3.details

[@EDMRemakesFL]

tbh i think the biggest difference is video games tend to try and replicate what real life looks like to us, but videos don’t capture what real life looks like as effectively. Low res cameras + bad lighting can make any normal day look poor quality which wouldn’t happen in a sim aiming to look as realistic as possible

[@johanbohan6238]

for some reason i have the godly instinct of telling if its a game or not

[@aceracing7]

Yeah same

[@mikhailtolstov8740]

Same

[@ziepex7009]

@-warthunder- fr

[@orcinuszeus]

same I could tell because of th clouds and the brightness

[@Nottheguyyouwantedasvillain]

yeah same we are same

[@cycloid2326]

The lighting gives it away every time. MSFS has much more uniform lighting than the harsh shadows and glare in real life.

[@miabee6267]

The clouds are a dead giveaway if you pay attention enough.

[@scaranoniccolo9058]

I got all right, but the resolution of MSFS is actually fantastic! You only have to use a pc that can handle such a masterpiece ❤️

[@Ryu1478]

If they made the game a bit darker then it would be real life at that point

[@jatinbajaj8075]

I mean they want to design a game that looks as real as possible to the users rather than making it super realistic , We remember our flights as colourful as possible

[@FinlandBall227]

​@@jatinbajaj8075USA: Colorful UK: Colourful

[@SomeoneYouHate]

I never played the microsoft flight sim but ussually the games at the start ask you pick the right brightness. And most of the time people don’t know how to do it properly and end up with way worse looking games than they expected

[@SomeoneYouHate]

@@FinlandBall227 what does that have to do with anything

[@FinlandBall227]

@@SomeoneYouHate little joke i made about the colourful

[@roger_that0459]

Easiest way to tell, the flight simulator always has the smoother look

[@DrakeDHDerr]

Its the louds for me

[@SpaceflightSimulator]

@@DrakeDHDerr Same the clouds are so bulky in MFS

[@Aviationlover53]

It’s scary how realistic the mircrosoft flight sim is, but I can tell which one is real and which one is the sim

[@hvip4]

- Depth, a lot of the vents, ridges, bolts are just flat in flight sim. - wing flex - too consistent in flight sim, sporadic irl - moving cars - the warped glass effect

[@haph2087]

I got them all right. It’s all about lighting. The clouds are good, but not quite right, window reflections (and especially distortions) appear to not be present in the simulator, and the sameness of the buildings on the ground can be key as well. Whether or not one’d notice when not looking for it is a more interesting question. Would you catch on to small details like this unprompted?

[@notsobreadd]

Also the buildings and how flat everything looks. The panels on the engine irl have more depth then the ones in game.

[@Progamehunter-wn4xt]

Moving car in background helps too

[@sosa3559]

The biggest giveaway is the vibration in real life versus MSFS. In the sim the camera mounted in the cockpit doesnt shake or move at all which would pretty much be impossible unless it was on a gimbal in the irl clips you can see a slight shaking

[@Smart_Gamer416]

ye same here.

[@Final-On-YT]

Msfs is going to become real life at this point

[@owenfaccinetto9212]

😂 😂😂

[@EmeryE2]

Underrated comment

[@SWAT_Bro12]

Fr 😂

[@ibrahimahmed9220]

Sims having better quality than real life

[@owenfaccinetto9212]

@@ibrahimahmed9220 AHAHHAAHH ONG BRO SO TRU 😂

[@PolandAviation69420]

Real life: With Refractions MSFS: No Refractions

[@BWB_Cubing]

I feel like simulators often look like there is a sort of tension in the objects that isnt really there irl Idk its weird

[@reblanium]

Got all of them, if it looks like someone recently cleaned the widows or applied fresh paint it’s not real lol

[@ElliotsLegoCreations]

Same

[@thegoat-ishere4414]

Not the best way of telling the two apart. The way I got all of them is looking off into the horizon, real life is distinct and different from sim horizon

[@hush6149]

@@thegoat-ishere4414nope the windows are a great way of telling the two apart lol

[@freddie5730]

Same

[@I_like_a10]

Pro tip: Just look at the clouds, in MSFS clouds are usually brigter, and smoother

[@13B-POWAH]

also parallax shift in the glass

[@idiot.tezza_]

I only guessed them by the resolution, if the video were a bit too blurry, then it real life.

[@saivedanth1605]

i got all right, its the graphics that makes it different

[@user-iu4gd6be6x]

Why does the flight sim look more real than real life 😮

[@DruggyShrek]

One is recorded with a phone camera and one is 8k game footage, if you were in the pilot pov irl would look much better

[@quillzarlation]

@@DruggyShrek Still wouldn't look 8k hdr bright and shiny though

[@TrickDoesAThing]

Got them all. It was easy to tell the difference because of the colours. MSFS was always much brighter and greener that the real life footage, which was much more muted.

[@coalthedergsune]

yo a fellow furry here, you got a nice channel.

[@TrickDoesAThing]

@@coalthedergsune Hey and thank you ^^

[@coalthedergsune]

@@TrickDoesAThing you're welcome

[@legolooper]

Why is MSFS looking better than real life now 😂

[@user-pj7xm1gj2g]

Yeah true

[@amireasy6419]

Fr 😂

[@Max9_captain]

😂

[@CorfuKerkyra-ChrisGame]

Yeah😂

[@Pranav_204]

Yeah why

[@General_Madness]

Is it just me or does msfs look better than real life

[@unfreezedfreezer9455]

Phone camera quality

[@zenthous9568]

You can easily tell from the volumetric quality on the clouds

[@Kiara-qn5bb]

All of them games usually boost the color of the image to make it look better.

[@specialedson1]

Flight sim looking better than real life

[@Vulture_edm]

#3 had me fooled through and through tho…

[@leongraf6284]

Real life needs a graphic update because it looks like shit

[@cosmonut-fr]

real life kinda depends on the camera that is being used, but from our eyesight, I think real life takes the cake

[@averageinternetuser286]

No camera is able to replicate the quality of a human eye

[@cosmonut-fr]

@@averageinternetuser286 no 🤡🤓

[@Bowsendo64]

Why does msfs look better than real life 😂

[@FranktheHogRider]

Last one almost had me, but I saw the box truck I was looking at disappear

[@AviationCrashes69]

I got everything right! I’m not kidding, you can notice the difference between a sim and RL

[@TheAviationGeek8133]

Yeah, I also got them all right.

[@wayanyogasegara6342]

Same here..

[@lambda653]

Yeah that's because Microsoft flight isn't photo realistic

[@ARandom_Toad]

Lower resolution and fps = real life

[@aircrashinvestigation5154]

Best thing is to check the roads

[@mafin_official]

The strategy is to completely ignore the plane itself and just focus on the clouds.

[@yourfriendlycommenter9724]

yes my bruda you got the strats

[@mafin_official]

@@yourfriendlycommenter9724 yeah MFS is a flight simulator, not a cloud simulator.

[@mariozapata6128]

yup

[@Genlord125]

I can always tell the difference because the clouds in Microsoft flight simulator are less natural looking making it appear as a aimulation

[@Troberre75gt]

I like how flight sim is better quality than real life

[@epicfrenchfry717]

why does the flight sim look more real than real life

[@Bloxfruitsbros1]

IDK 😂

[@yungpedro17]

Because it’s directly downloaded where the flight videos are pixelated re uploads

[@simply_oat755]

easiest way to tell is to look at the way the camera moves, because of physics the camera will always jitter at least a little bit and the 2nd way i found worked was the clouds, all games use a set of randomly generated clouds meaning you can see a a lot of strange looking lines where clouds randomly stop

[@wongjowoganteng]

Games try to having the most fascinating graphics without thinking about realistic graphics.

[@F3RR0US1]

for the last one if you look at the bottom you can see the truck disappear

[@carterpenland]

When Microsoft light simulator 2020 looks better than real life

[@diamondwhite5208]

Bro wakes up every morning and shines his nose

[@Jns_113]

What gave them all away for real life is the air vents

[@SparlsOfficial]

It's always the terrain and foliage that makes it wildly easy to tell

[@AirWasTaken]

Since I have MSFS myself, I felt like I got an advantage here. I got 6/6.

[@Freddynightmares]

Yeah me too but I got 4

[@Kadesh86]

@@Freddynightmares me too but I got 5 :))

[@Official_zaDpi]

I even don't but I got 6/6 too

[@thecomedypilot5894]

I have MSFS but I only got 4

[@ronn5229]

Im on a Macbook 😢😢😢😢

[@osoreru4381]

MSFS focuses on maximum perfection, good reflections with no dust, clean cities where everything seems right, it doesn't have the imperfections real life has, things like dirty stuff, prominent shadows, long range blur, etc

[@MEMEZILLA995]

They focused on that so much they forgot to perfect the plane physics lol, no hate though

[@JoinEliteClan]

@@MEMEZILLA995thats cause u use the basic planes for example the asobo a320neo, the fenix a320 is a better option

[@Randomgamer089]

Also the msfs cloud have more of a marshmallow look

[@ChickenTheEasyJet]

it was pretty dif but the reflection gave it away

[@TheLosAngelesDicekingGod1]

the texture was off on a plane so ik it was simulator and they don't really pay attention to small detail on a plane like ventilators

[@samsdu1429]

MSFS has basically transparent windows, as if they did not exist. Surfaces are also much smoother and shiny, that's how you can tell the difference.

[@iamr4mi]

and does not over expose at all

[@ZiyxdYT]

I literally knew the last one was msfs because I saw a truck as normal just driving and it suddenly disappeared.

[@FloppyTHING9]

I didn’t see it the first time, but I definitely see that truck now!

[@Littlefish1239]

Lol

[@maximum-lq7co]

WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE

[@Gizzle605]

Trucks disappear in real life too 😂

[@Aksel547]

The first two airlines are my absolute favorite!

[@Hollow_Scythe958]

No lie it’s pretty easy to tell no human being can hold a phone that still on a airplane experiencing turbulence

[@RealBadWolf]

Clouds need a serious redo in mfs

[@tarundas123]

They look great tho

[@Westjet1450]

@@tarundas123 People say that but they really dont

[@burgadahz17]

​@@Westjet1450at the least they are waay waay much better than xplane

[@Westjet1450]

@@burgadahz17 eh

[@hah5663]

@@Westjet1450 they are

[@GT86_S5MK]

Love it when a game looks more realistic than real life.

[@catsrule5p892]

But it don’t

[@MadSupra354]

Self report

[@smirkyglint5437]

Something can’t look more realistic than real life but it can look more beautiful

[@hughpenner5051]

@@smirkyglint5437 it’s the other way around for me.

[@smirkyglint5437]

@@hughpenner5051 no something cant be more realistic than real life if you think otherwise you dont know what realistic means

[@sawyermccall2370]

Got all of them, something about the clouds and lighting

[@herfanin]

The way that I can tell is the clouds in Microsoft flight simulator are too perfect to be real.

[@GhostHunter9137]

This game is more realistic than irl

[@AviationFanAmerican]

It's not

[@FrostyLemon.]

​@@AviationFanAmerican it is though it looks better than real life

[@Final-On-YT]

@@AviationFanAmerican r/woosh

[@frankoceanfan3157]

@@FrostyLemon. nope😊

[@owenfaccinetto9212]

Bro I never actually realized how realistic the game was 😭 😂

[@EmeryE2]

It’s all about the IRL camera quality

[@TrainsQLD]

All except for the last one

[@MrMask-cf7eo]

How did you get them right? Me: The graphics looked too good

[@_REVERIE]

So freaking pretty! Very close to real; but there's still some subtle tells that give away that it's the sim. Mainly how clean the air is among other things. 😅

[@VictorGavazyuk]

You can look at people walking around and if cars drive awkwardly or not

[@yashrajdeo1108]

The first one legit looks like flight sim.

[@Aviationcoverage]

Bro got sun burnt 😂

[@Felixfan91]

I know right

[@jouniviljanen7388]

i recognized all the rl and msr differences without even waiting because it's quite obvious from cockpit windows, and camera quality

[@Mohamed-be7pv]

All of it bro it’s just the camera quality and brightness

[@MexicanAvgeek]

Bros name is Medium Rare 🤣

[@mathewmillhouse5907]

The flight Sim videos load in at a better quality fs

[@kingcaper7816]

5/6 Number 3 got me, I thought the haziness in the distance and looking at the dash of the plane it looked real but noticed the window at the last second was too good 😭

[@sojufighter8451]

I got them all. Real life was harder to tell, but flight Sim I could tell immediately

[@pragmag2655]

All except the 1st one

[@dxrkinfuser_44]

Aaron you should do a fastest flyby past an aircraft carrier or smth coz the clip at the start was so good. Btw record it from the pov of the carrier if you can (when the giveaway at. Rlly could do with a stick or racing wheel or even just a series x)

[@king_cameraman02]

The flight sim looks more realistic than real life 💀

[@AlfaTheRaccoon]

it doesnt...

[@AlfaTheRaccoon]

@@funplazy145 how so, the cockpit doesnt move, the map is blocky, the wings are glosst, and the quality is just too high compared to irl. I could tell every time.

[@AlfaTheRaccoon]

@@funplazy145 and no it doesnt its so plastic and too high quality compared to irl recordings

[@Kingbron007]

@@AlfaTheRaccoon 🤓☝️ bro shut up no one cares

[@weevil5]

got all of them right but wow, the graphics are insane

[@julianezekielmendoza6179]

Saw this video before and never played MSFS back then. I got all of them correct just because I know what MSFS looks like. But when I first watched this, I actually got 2 wrong. The fact that sometimes you actually have to think about which is which is crazy

[@thebaseballcow2024]

In MSFS, the plane’s condition always looks really good, where as irl, the planes have a less perfect looking appearance so it’s easier to tell if you know what I mean

[@dr.yamato1506]

I full on used the clouds lmao and got perfect hahaha wish the same for my final exam...

[@certifiedmanul]

The clouds give it away half the time

[@user-mn3mz4kn5y]

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉 you have officially passed the virtual reality test so you know that the real life is a simulator

[@jacobvanderwilk3558]

White van in last clip: *casually despawns*

[@soggypancake001]

where nvm i see it

[@theelectrix5699]

That’s actually impressive.

[@SniperCon210]

Dang, I didn’t know msfs is more realistic than real life

[@kotybenedict2640]

All of them. You can tell which ones are flight simulator because everything is unusually shiny and there's no smog 😂

[@zacthefrog]

The flight sim ones looked too clean lol

[@ExoWiz]

We need a graphics update!

[@elliotduke961]

Somebody filmed real life with a pringles can

[@CMNUnknown]

In the last one you can see a bus disappear on the road 😂

[@danemilhuisen389]

5/6, msfs looks too real to be true

[@dubellest2282]

100% passed. The fidelity is what gives it away

[@managed9348]

I really picked flight sim on the first one😭

[@jwalenmanoj5533]

My way telling the difference is to look at which one looks more real than real life if it looks better then it's the sim 😂