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VR 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 su

by untog 9y ago

VR 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 I'm surprised these AV systems haven't been replaced by cheap Android tablets - they'd be a hell of a lot cheaper and you could replace them very easily.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 ago
Many 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 ago
  Source? 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 ago
    You could both be an android tablet and run off a plug and not have a battery...
- grahamburger 9y ago
  On 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.