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Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

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Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

#21

Lufthansa will do anything for its business class except make it any good.

What’s wrong with Lufthansa? It’s the only international business class I’ve ever flown. Had good experiences compared most domestic airlines in the US.

They canceled my flight to Dubai on the day of the flight with no alternatives offered/booked. I booked them because I thought they were reliable even if more expensive than alternatives. Never again.

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

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"With the technological improvements we currently see for headsets and software, I am convinced that mixed reality has the potential to transform many elements of the travel experience and drive scale." - Dr. Björn Becker, Head of Program, Future Intercontinental Experience, Lufthansa What does "drive scale" mean here? Getting more passengers into the same plane volume?

"cutting exhibition costs by up to 80% and making training more scalable." and "When Lufthansa launched Allegris, a new seating experience for long haul flights, in approximately 150 of its aircrafts, it needed a scalable way to promote the experience with partners around the world. Lufthansa also needed to train flight attendants and call centre staff, so that they could better serve customers and upsell them to Lufthansa's First and Business Class offerings."

--> sounds like B2B sales/communication and internal training.

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

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post #17

"With the technological improvements we currently see for headsets and software, I am convinced that mixed reality has the potential to transform many elements of the travel experience and drive scale." - Dr. Björn Becker, Head of Program, Future Intercontinental Experience, Lufthansa What does "drive scale" mean here? Getting more passengers into the same plane volume?

I assume drive scale means 'serve ads', which somehow translate into more flights?

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

#24

I get the hate, but I find this semi-interesting. I flew business recently and the airline had a '3d' walkthrough of their cabin (i.e. 360deg photos at multiple points), a bit like property market listings where you have to press a bunch of arrows to move around. It may seem daft, and you may not be able to imagine someone using this in its current iteration, but I reckon as VR-wear becomes less clunky, stuff like th…

Agree. It’s a little embarrassing, but when booking flights, I do spend some time finding out which seat may be the best for my taste and seatguru.com isn’t always enough. So this could be helpful.

Also, we need experiments with new tech to find out if and how to use it. Why not have an airline give it a go?

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

#26
I'm mostly surprised just how underwhelming this looks. Meta has buckets of money, and hires the absolute best engineers available, and what they can come up with is...this? It just looks so bad - ugly lighting, bad textures etc etc. If this is a showcase of the best that Quest can be, I'm surprised.

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

#27

If I could look down mid-flight and see what was happening below…ancient battles, modern news events…that would be a truly educational inflight experience.

That is an awesome idea. I really hope someone runs with it.

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

#28

How are passengers going to use it for the main type of usage of VR headsets? (let's not pretend most guys are buying it for a flight simulator/racing experience)

I'm pretty sure gaming is still a more common usage than porn.

That might change if the capture technology improves.

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

#29

Lufthansa will do anything for its business class except make it any good.

What’s wrong with Lufthansa? It’s the only international business class I’ve ever flown. Had good experiences compared most domestic airlines in the US.

Not a fair comparison. International flights tend to have more legroom than domestic flights because they're longer routes.

I recall Lufthansa at one time being a well ranked airline. However, they seem to have fallen.

They're not even listed here: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/skytrax-world-airline-awards-...

They're 15th here, but it is dated information.: https://www.worldairlineawards.com/worlds-top-100-airlines-2...

Re: Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality

#30

How are passengers going to use it for the main type of usage of VR headsets? (let's not pretend most guys are buying it for a flight simulator/racing experience)

I'm pretty sure gaming is still a more common usage than porn. That might change if the capture technology improves.

Stats are telling a different story...
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