VR Movies Will Help Alaska Airlines Comfort Their Customers In Long Flights

Travelling in airplane may not be a pleasant experience for a lot of people, especially when it is cramped and crowded. Therefore, many airlines are trying to make their flights more comfortable and also entertaining to their customers, they are offering VR (Virtual Reality) to help the passengers avoid the pressurized environment inside the plane's cabin.

Alaska Airlines is upgrading customers’ experience of in-flight movies to a higher level by serving the VR movies.

Long flight can be exhausted for many people

They just made an announcement to inform that they will include the Allosky VR headset for their first class customers as a type of in-flight entertainment. Boston-San Diego and Seattle-Boston will be the first two routes to be piloted this program.

The new VR headset which is claimed to offer much better flight experience to passengers

The new VR headset of Alaska Airlines allows passengers to enjoy 2D, 3D or even 360-degree movies in Full HD resolution. Flight’s passengers will have access to films such as Read Player One, Three Billboards, and Ferdinand. Passengers can also choose among many short forward-facing 360° videos which mostly are acrobatics, classical music, and freediving.

The SkyLights VR headset has Full HD resolution per eye and it is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon. It also offers films from its partners Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and EIM (Entertainment in Motion).

SkyLights is getting more popular as the VR in-flight entertainment provider. Last month, it just introduced Skykids - a new VR system that was designed for children with the age from 6 to 12 on long-haul flights. This system is being tested on XL Airways - a French airline.

Even though SkyLight has already been teamed up with Air France and Corsair, Alaska Airlines still claims to be the first in North America to offer the Allosky headset for in-flight entertainment.