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> Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie? I flew on an Emirates A380 recen
by mappu 7y ago
> Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie?
I flew on an Emirates A380 recently that had a front-facing camera in the IFE system. I'm not sure what its intended purpose was - perhaps to allow video calls?
I had no way to tell if it was in-use during the flight, but i assume there were already other cameras in the main passenger cabin with sufficient resolution to tell whether someone's eyes are open.
- samstave 7y agoEventually AI will be watching your stress level mannerisms and micro-expressions to determine if youre a risk to the flight.
- ddalex 7y agoIn the beginning, yes. But after a short while the AI would carefully watch you while playing non-skippable ads to gauge how to maximize revenue per customer.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoUnless you're a medieval king with 200 servants it's difficult to imagine yes. Maybe when someone is disabled? But then again sound would be enough.
- samstave 7y ago? What was this supposed to be to?
- epse 7y agoIt is for video calls. Depending on your class, you can video call the flight attendants
- jobigoud 7y agoWhay's the point of video calling someone in the same room a few meters away?
- WalterBright 7y agoWhen my house was built, I considered adding a wired intercom system. I could never think of a reason why it would be better than just yelling.
- AstralStorm 7y agoMany DECT phones have this functionality without being wired. Also there probably is a way to use SIP locally as an intercom between smartphones. Unlike an intercom they're portable. The main thing missing is voice or sound activated pick-up and hang-up, sometimes automatic loudspeaker mode.
- WalterBright 7y agoI rejected wireless intercoms at the time because every wireless thing I bought had horrible sound quality, like the worst walkie-talkie. Even with simple analog electronics, wired had good sound quality. I did install some speaker wires, but the times when I wanted to play music in one room and hear it in another are just about never. Guess I'm just not finding any point to home automation. Even if I had installed a home automation system, the intervening years would have turned it into expensive obsolete junk anyway. I've heard of people, when they try to sell their homes, having to rip it all out and put in conventional wiring. What did pay off was running Cat5 and RG6 cables in a star configuration. Wifi has improved greatly, but it's nothing like a wired connection for smooth, problem free operation.
- ghaff 7y ago>I did install some speaker wires, but the times when I wanted to play music in one room and hear it in another are just about never. I have speakers around my house, including on my deck, wired to a stereo receiver for music and I do use it. But Sonos didn't exist when I had the various renovations done when the wiring was added. If I were doing it today, I'd almost certainly just go with some sort of wireless system.