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Somewhat related. On the Pitch podcast a guy pitching VR headsets on planes said those seat back entertainment systems are heavy and cost the airlines $1b a yea
by bruceb 9y ago
Somewhat related. On the Pitch podcast a guy pitching VR headsets on planes said those seat back entertainment systems are heavy and cost the airlines $1b a year in fuel costs.
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/skylights-s02-ep04/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/skylights-s02-ep04/
Company: http://www.skylights.aero/ http://www.skylights.aero/
- mahyarm 9y agoI would think nowadays they should be lightweight android tablets and a small 10 lbs media/wifi server box
- untog 9y agoVR on a plane sounds interesting. But those headsets are pretty bulky right now, I wouldn't want to be juggling one along with food and everything else. I'm surprised these AV systems haven't been replaced by cheap Android tablets - they'd be a hell of a lot cheaper and you could replace them very easily.
- tomjakubowski 9y agoMany of those in-flight entertainment systems are Android tablets mounted onto the seatback. Sometimes if you're lucky you can bail out to the Android home screen on them.
- ricardobeat 9y agoSource? I doubt they would embed lithium batteries into the seats, and every device I've seen so far is powered on/off along with airplane systems.
- brianwawok 9y agoYou could both be an android tablet and run off a plug and not have a battery...
- grahamburger 9y agoOn a recent Delta flight the seat back screens were malfunctioning and had to be rebooted several times. The boot was a standard Linux text mode sequence. Debian, iirc. It would get stuck before the graphical interface loaded.