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Can someone explain to me who these customers are? Who is buying these seats from Lufthansa?
Lots of senior-level business people, wealthy individuals, individuals who may not be wealthy but aren't penny-pinching and have lots of frequent flyer miles.
Personally I'm not a fan of Lufthansa specifically but I've flown businesss class quite a few times (although not routinely).
With VR goggles, everybody can have the business class experience while paying for economy.
Here Mr Businessflyer, enjoy your virtual glass of fine wine.
Appearance is everything, as this study shows:
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...
> In a sneaky study, Brochet dyed a white wine red and gave it to 54 oenology (wine science) students. The supposedly expert panel overwhelmingly described the beverage like they would a red wine. They were completely fooled.
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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
Do you know of an equivalent in metric? (just asking for the other 7.650 billions humans)
Perhaps someone will take note and fill this serious void.
This just looks entirely pointless and the product of a marketing team with too many staff.
For Meta this is great because it exposes lots of people to their product. And since it's business class many of those people are either influential or at least open to buying a $250-$500 headset to show the same experience to their kids at home. For the customer it's interesting because flights are often somewhat boring, so having the option for a whimsical distraction is nice. When the novelty wears off after 30 mi…
It is a product for the sake of being a product. Literally a "meta-product". There is no real practical use out of commercial exhibitions. Nobody is gonna use this thing to decide which class to book or anything, and using such a thing for real training is laughable unless this is where we are with cost-cutting. It is an absurdity born out of marketing boredom and a desperate need (from meta's part) for making some product with VR headsets. Only thing I am surprised is that AI is not mentioned. Such "products" are usually "AI-powered".
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For Meta this is great because it exposes lots of people to their product. And since it's business class many of those people are either influential or at least open to buying a $250-$500 headset to show the same experience to their kids at home. For the customer it's interesting because flights are often somewhat boring, so having the option for a whimsical distraction is nice. When the novelty wears off after 30 mi…
This is for showcasing/simulating a fly environment, not for using during an actual flight. Nobody would risk such a thing during an actual flight, not now and not for the foreseeable future, for obvious reasons (safety, motion-sickness etc). It is a product for the sake of being a product. Literally a "meta-product". There is no real practical use out of commercial exhibitions. Nobody is gonna use this thing to deci…
I can't think of any obvious reasons. People are allowed to take their own headset onto the flight, why wouldn't the airline lend a quest 3 to people in business/first class?
Lufthansa has the least amount of seat space in any plane I've flown in. But sure, goggles.
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This is for showcasing/simulating a fly environment, not for using during an actual flight. Nobody would risk such a thing during an actual flight, not now and not for the foreseeable future, for obvious reasons (safety, motion-sickness etc). It is a product for the sake of being a product. Literally a "meta-product". There is no real practical use out of commercial exhibitions. Nobody is gonna use this thing to deci…
>Nobody would risk such a thing during an actual flight, not now and not for the foreseeable future, for obvious reasons (safety, motion-sickness etc). I can't think of any obvious reasons. People are allowed to take their own headset onto the flight, why wouldn't the airline lend a quest 3 to people in business/first class?
but yeah sure VR inflight experience is the most important investment right now.
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
It's called "My company bought the tickets for me".
I live in NZ, had no experience with long haul travelling until my first flights into Germany, so I really had no idea it could differ from airline to airline that much. I assumed you'd get stuff like that on RyanAir etc. but never thought of Lufthansa as a budget airline.
And yeah, I learned about Seatguru _shortly afterwards_ which is why I _now_ know that Lufthansa really is the worst.
Appreciate you criticising me for not being omniscient about all things flying beforehand, it really contributes a lot.