The Future of the digEplayer Is...Virtual Reality (VR)?
Sep 23, 2018, 8:21 pm
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The Future of the digEplayer Is...Virtual Reality (VR)?
Today on AS12 on way to Boston there was a film and camera crew on board with passengers testing and posing with new VR sets that will apparently replace the beloved, and perhaps hated, digiplayers. Congrats Alaska for making the great leap forward, if it indeed happens.
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Sep 23, 2018, 10:12 pm
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I wear glasses and in my experience with VR headsets, they tend not to work all that well with them. (I have a pretty strong prescription and the diopter correction dials unfortunately don't go far enough.) Hopefully whatever devices they're using will work better?
Sep 23, 2018, 10:35 pm
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Fascinating. I'll be very interested to see if this is more than a pilot project. I also have all sorts of questions ranging from whether they'll find a way to pipe in-flight announcements in, since situational awareness when using VR is by design just about nil, to how they'll design a simple enough user interface to be able to be easily used. Thanks for the report!
Sep 24, 2018, 8:00 am
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Sep 24, 2018, 10:39 am
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Alaska blog post on this
https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/vr-trial/
Ten flight trial starting yesterday on BOS-SEA and BOS-SAN.
https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/vr-trial/
Ten flight trial starting yesterday on BOS-SEA and BOS-SAN.
Sep 24, 2018, 11:56 am
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Fascinating. I'll be very interested to see if this is more than a pilot project. I also have all sorts of questions ranging from whether they'll find a way to pipe in-flight announcements in, since situational awareness when using VR is by design just about nil, to how they'll design a simple enough user interface to be able to be easily used. Thanks for the report!
Sep 24, 2018, 2:23 pm
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Can they livestream footage from a 360 camera mounted on the nose of the aircraft? It would be like flying in a glass airplane!!
Sep 24, 2018, 2:27 pm
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Its the brand of tablet that can be rented on longer Alaska flights.
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ainment/tablet
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ainment/tablet
Sep 24, 2018, 3:42 pm
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At first I had to think really hard what "VR" was.....then I finally figured it out.....while this ranks pretty high on the "cool scale".....I'm not sure I want to completely be unaware of my surroundings on an aircraft....especially if, for example, there is an emergency or I want to watch a movie while eating my meal.
Sep 24, 2018, 3:53 pm
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Its the brand of tablet that can be rented on longer Alaska flights.
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ainment/tablet
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ainment/tablet
Last edited by dayone; Sep 24, 2018 at 7:42 pm Reason: Typo.
Sep 24, 2018, 6:11 pm
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At first I had to think really hard what "VR" was.....then I finally figured it out.....while this ranks pretty high on the "cool scale".....I'm not sure I want to completely be unaware of my surroundings on an aircraft....especially if, for example, there is an emergency or I want to watch a movie while eating my meal.
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