Innovations The airplane is preparing to land. Please remove your virtual reality headset.
To Skylights, that’s the future of in-flight entertainment.
The French start-up company manufactures a headset with a built-in screen that claims to offer a “middle-row movie theater field of view” for watching high-resolution 2-D, 3-D and virtual-reality content. On Thursday, Skylights released the second iteration of the wearable device, called Bravo, which airlines can rent and loan to their passengers for a fee.
Skylights has trialed the headsets on a handful of European airlines over the last year, including Air France, KLM and low-cost carrier XL Airways. In July, the company established an office in Palo Alto, Calif., with hopes of expanding into the U.S. market, said Laurence Fornari, the head of sales.
Skylights already has agreements to show films from 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks, Fornari said, adding that the headsets currently offer about 60 movie options and can run for six hours on a single charge.
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