3-D movies in the air? Alaska Airlines adds virtual reality to in-flight entertainment
The Seattle-based airline has partnered with SkyLights, a French-American immersive-media company, to offer VR headsets and noise-canceling headphones to first-class customers on 10 flights that go between Seattle and Boston, and Boston and San Diego.
The users can watch 2-D and 3-D films such as “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” or “Ready Player One.” They can also click into 360-degree, head-tracking virtual-reality videos.
SkyLights’ lightweight Allosky VR headsets have been adopted for tryouts on other airlines, ranging from Joon and XL Airways to Lufthansa, but Alaska Airlines’ experiment ranks among the most ambitious yet. It follows months of testing and tweaking by Alaska’s Guest Advisory Board, which includes some of the airline’s most seasoned frequent fliers.
A SkyLights representative will be onboard for each of the flight tests to provide support for passengers and flight attendants.
“Before launching VR content, we ran in-flight user tests, in which there were no reports of a passenger that experienced VR sickness.”
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