Virgin Airlines in flight entrtainment console

Design Discussions general design discussion
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This came up on the c77 home page the other day, and I thought it was really well done, not surprising coming from Virgin.

The system offers

  • a QWERTY keyboard
  • Live TV (Dish Network)
  • Pay movies
  • 3,000 mp3 tracks and 20 radio channels
  • Open source video games
  • food ordering from the seat
  • wireless broadband internet.
  • Email/SMS/instant messaging/chat rooms, providing an airborne social network

I wonder how that last one will go over??? Would you use an in flight chat room?

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I think the IFE system that Cooper designed for Sony is functionally more usable, but the Virgin one is gadgety and cool looking.

http://www.cooper.com/content/clients/sony_trans_com.asp