The new Microsoft Flight Simulator is considered a spectacular technical achievement and was one of the sensations of the gaming year 2020. The real star of the game, however, was the realistic flight feeling or the many highly detailed aircraft models and airports, but the game world - a digital twin of our world in 3D, created with an AI-based technology by the start-up blackshark.ai from Graz.

What the Graz-based start-up blackshark.ai created with the help of satellite images and artificial intelligence is unparalleled: a digital twin of our earth, all buildings and vegetation in 3D. The CEOs of Nvidia and Microsoft also wondered how such a thing is possible. In the podcast, blackshark CEO & Co-Founder Michael Putz talks about the journey of his company, which started out as a games company and now finds applications for its technology far beyond the boundaries of the virtual gaming world.