Last year, we told you about the Outerra engine, an ambitious plan to build a system for video game developers (and other software applications) that could make use of entire worlds.
https://lastchance.cc/this-game-engine-wants-to-build-entire-planets-5862109%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Anyone who has played an open-world game like Skyrim, or a shooter like ArmA, will be going wild at the possibilities inherent in such tech. Let’s just hope that, when you start adding the code of an actual game to it, Outerra is able to maintain at least some semblance of both its scale and its looks.