Joey Sipos, founder of Glider Sim, has built a paragliding and hang gliding simulator that combines realistic flight physics with global terrain, using Cesium for Unity and Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles.
The simulator is available on Steam and Meta Quest VR, and it’s being used by both flight schools and casual explorers. In the article Joey shares how Cesium helped him scale from manually built maps to streaming the entire Earth, enabling multiplayer, real-world launch sites, and dynamic weather simulation: Glider Sim Players Fly the World with Cesium – Cesium