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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

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Post by soco »

padolsey wrote: post #14

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…

And then reality hits: they will change the plane and all you've seen before buying becomes invalid. Swiss (a Lufthansa group member) makes you pay for your reserved seat, then constantly changes it at will - I fly with them often and I can't remember one single time where I kept the reserved place. So yes, it's a pointless PR exercise.

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

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Post by CoastalCoder »

amelius wrote: post #9

With VR goggles, everybody can have the business class experience while paying for economy.

How is Lufthansa for leg room?

That's the only difference I care about w.r.t. seating sections, and I doubt VR could help with that.

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

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Post by stevage »

padolsey wrote: post #14

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…

I don't think the intention is that potential passengers would ever experience this. It's for "partners" and training.

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Post by kirth_gersen »

SapporoChris wrote: post #20
EdwardDiego wrote: post #12

Lufthansa has the least amount of seat space in any plane I've flown in. But sure, goggles.

Given that legroom, seat pitch and such is something that can easily be researched before purchasing a ticket. Unless someone is forcing you to fly a particular airline, is this something to complain about? https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Lufthansa/fleetinfo.php

Yes. The information on choices can be freely available AND you can have your choices limited to a set of options that individually you find unsatisfactory. These can both be true at the same time. For example, what if their trip was for work and they weren't given any choice since the tickets were purchased for them?

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

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Post by bousenta »

stevage wrote: post #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.

Even if you’re one of the best engineers, doesn’t mean you have style.

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

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Post by blackoil »

stevage wrote: post #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.

Maybe they should buy EA. Considering the amount of money they are spending, financially it may be feasible.
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