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> In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too. Wow, marketing fluff much? They just want to add something to check for closed eyes. Not exactly facial recognition.
It’s tough to defend CNN... but it has to recognize faces to do that right? :)
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Can’t they just put “are you still there” button like Netflix? Would be cheaper and less creepy.
It would also have less false positives. I sometimes close my eyes and just listen to the audio, for TV documentaries for ex. and there are also radio programs.
> The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design. Um, what > In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too. > The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you've fallen asleep, it'll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE. This could be the worst idea ev…
I specifically put on mediocre movies to help me sleep on flights. I often wake up when they finish. I can't be alone here.
By far the best sleep I've had on an aircraft was an Alitalia flight in the early 2000s, a 747 from Italy to Hong Kong, economy class. The upholstery was thin worn-down carpet, the seat felt like plywood with metal reinforcements in important places, hopes of in-flight entertainment were confined to headphones operated by a wheel-dial fixed the the seat, there was nothing as fancy as a button. But it was spacious, spacious enough to allow use of its utilitarian space having a nice sleep.
An unlikely benchmark, but a benchmark for getting it right. A simple seat, space to adjust legs, and an adjustable headrest. That's all. I am happy with carpet, plastic/fake leather padding is sticky and therefore uncomfortable, as well as taking up precious millimeters which add up. Carpet is fine.
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It is for video calls. Depending on your class, you can video call the flight attendants
Whay's the point of video calling someone in the same room a few meters away?
> The designers are considering adding facial recognition technology to the design. Um, what > In fitting with the trend towards more personalized, data-driven flying experiences, New Territory is keen to add facial recognition technology to the mix too. > The idea is that as the seat wing recognizes that you've fallen asleep, it'll automatically turn off the movie playing on your IFE. This could be the worst idea ev…
Many modern cars already have something like this to see if you're falling sleeping while behind the wheel and will start vibrating the seats and steering while sounding alarms to get you alert again.
That being said, it's definitely over engineered compared to a "are you still active" button on the screen.
All the seats need is wings for the headrest so I don't wake up as my head falls the instant I go to sleep.
I always lean forward on the tray table. I find resting my head / getting it horizontal is far more important than anything for the rest of my body. Is this just me? I get the sense that very little is optimized for this. The next person reclining their seat makes it harder to fit my head on the tray table, for example. Conflicting resting positions!
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I specifically put on mediocre movies to help me sleep on flights. I often wake up when they finish. I can't be alone here.
Boring meetings have the same effect on me. The main challenge is, not to snore.
I didn't get the job offer :-)