Premium Airline Beond to Offer Passengers Apple Vision Pro Headsets

[G5isAlive]

It honestly sounds like an SNL skit of ridiculousness

In tight quarters on an airplane, a user of this is going to be very unpopular

You might want to tell this person with actual use experience... he apparently missed the memo as did others that report a positive experience wearing the APV on planes.

On a Plane with My AVP

What are the best airlines for international flights for streaming video and music with the AVP? United is bad because it only allows basic web browsing and texting.

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[farmboy]

If Middle East luxury airlines don’t offer it today, I find it hard to believe this offer will last very long. Besides, what if something happens and plane needs to emergency descend or do dangerous manoeuvre? How would crew let passenger pull out their expensive Vision Pro and prepare for the emergency without damaging those $3500 devices in commotion and chaos? How about theft? Are they really thinking through?

It's a headset, not a cocoon. You can still hear the warnings and still notice the sharp descent or tight turn. The nature of "emergency" means the headset doesn't matter.

 

[farmboy]

Yuck, not sure I want to wear a lice and bacteria infected headband, let alone have my eyes exposed to whatever viruses, yeasts, diseases, and bacteria that have taken up residence in the visor itself.

It is estimated that the average human has ten trillion cells living in or on his/her body. Only one trillion are human.

 

[Abazigal]

It honestly sounds like an SNL skit of ridiculousness

In tight quarters on an airplane, a user of this is going to be very unpopular

Based on a few reports I have seen, the passengers generally seemed indifferent to this. One was by Ben Thompson of Stratechery, the other one was here.

 

[dlopan]

Yeah this isn't happening. Beond have 1 cranky old airbus and one on order, only 5 destinations and a low density luxury model. They will be taxed to hell for this soon and the investors will pull out. It's for people who can't afford a Learjet but think they can.

A 319 and a 321? Luxury? Yeah uh huh. Don't have a problem you'll be stuck in the Maldives forever.

 

[SteveJUAE]

I don't share your pessimism. For one thing, arguably the battery for the AVP is not the same as a battery pack for random use. It's better constructed for one with an aluminum shell that would likely reduce the fire risk, and for another it's the only source of power for the AVP. And it is firmly attached. The airlines have had plenty of time to evaluate the risk as it was announced over 6 months ago. But okay, let's say it escaped their attention until 2 weeks ago, hard to miss it then. And they were quick to respond to the Samsung galaxy note7 fiasco. I am not saying some airlines won't ban their use inflight, but my guess is plenty will allow it too.

Whilst it is likely some airlines will allow its use I think the general trend of concerns on batteries and power banks etc is likely to continue and strengthen in the aircraft industry IMO

Unfortunately you are mistaken the AVP is in part the same as a battery pack and it even has an extra port for use with other devices.

In terms of safety re falling between seats the AVP cable does not limit this any more than other devices

The premium materials used to build the AVP mainly for weight and aesthetics are likely to contribute little for crush tests

The airlines do not have to specifically evaluate the AVP as it simply falls in to one of the categorises already defined.

Enforcing many of the airline rules is left typically check-in staff and flight crew, its highly likely at present they are not aware of the AVP and how its powered, so it may slip their attention until it becomes more popular, if ever

Of course there is a simple solution to these potential problems and that is for Apple to release a direct power brick that can be plugged in

 

[VisceralRealist]

I heard Fyre Festival 2 will hand out free AVPs to all ticket-holders.

The plaything of the goofy-rich

 

[leicaman]

How do they get around prescription lenses?

 

[Hellokittystampmyfacein]

Airfares is Beond
what I can afford

 

[svish]

Interesting. Maybe other airlines will also follow.

 

[AlmightyKang]

A 319 and a 321? Luxury? Yeah uh huh. Don't have a problem you'll be stuck in the Maldives forever.

You can polish a turd you know?

Actually I have very few problems with the 320/321 series.

 

[darngooddesign]

I think watching a movie on a VPro during a long(er) flight is a perfect use case. I’d be more concerned about the fitting/setup process as that took a good 10 min for my demo at the Apple Store.

And regarding the comments about cleaning those between uses - how quickly have we forgotten that not even 20 years ago the only way to using audio/video entertainment was to use headphone provided by the carriers. And we all happily used them for decades …

This will probably an amenity you purchase ahead of time so you can do the scanning before the flight, and the soft bits like headbands and light seals will be swapped out between fights to be sanitized later. I wonder how they will handle the prescription lens inserts.

 

[darngooddesign]

Based on a few reports I have seen, the passengers generally seemed indifferent to this. One was by Ben Thompson of Stratechery, the other one was here.

Yeah, I can see airlines eventually requiring headphones just like then would with any other audio device. What would be really cool is for the environment matching your flight, like the aircraft is invisible.