Luxurious airline Beond has introduced it’ll provide Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional headsets to pick out passengers on flights to the Maldives by mid-2024.
Passengers will be capable to benefit from “unequalled onboard content material, coupled with immersive experiences showcasing the perfect of the Maldives,” based on a press launch.
The airline plans to offer its prospects with a singular stage of in-flight expertise and leisure, together with showcasing “beautiful resort locations and actions within the Maldives,” in addition to its current library of video games and films.
Beond’s Chairman and CEO, Tero Taskila, stated: “The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will rework the inflight leisure expertise, and we shall be first to supply it to pick out passengers.
“We’re working now with companions within the Maldives to organize really superb footage. The inflight expertise will construct anticipation for passengers earlier than they arrive within the Maldives.
“Providing the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is one other step in our imaginative and prescient of delivering a premium journey expertise to our prospects, from the begin to end of their journey.
“We’re proud to be the primary airline to deploy the know-how.”
Beond launched industrial passenger companies in 2023, debuting routes from Munich, Zurich, and Riyadh to Male, Maldives. It has introduced plans to supply flights from Milan, Dubai, and Bangkok to the Maldives by the center of 2024.
What’s Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional?
Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional hit shops within the US in early February, with the tech California-based tech large claiming the headset “seamlessly blends digital content material with the bodily world and unlocks highly effective spatial experiences.”
It’s the firm’s first entry into the VR area. On the identical time, the headset may also act as an add-on to a person’s on a regular basis expertise utilizing different Apple merchandise, because it syncs with the likes of the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Macbook to create an all-around interactive Apple expertise.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t come low cost. Solely presently out there within the US, the Imaginative and prescient Professional is on the market to buy for $3,499, with prescription lenses costing an extra $149 and studying lenses going for $99.
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