In-flight entertainment

A young passenger wears Rokid Max smart glasses during a flight. Rokid Sick of those tiny seatback screens on long flights? Thanks to a new partnership between Rokid and Hainan Airlines, that could become a thing of the past. Instead of small, glare-streaked LCDs, you could be enjoying a giant virtual display when you don futuristic smart glasses while flying. China’s Hainan Airlines loaned pairs of Rokid Entertainment Kits to passengers of flight HU7874 on February 7, 2024, which made it the world’s first AR flight…

Andrew Martonik / Digital Trends At this point, it’s easy to take for granted that we have fast and (mostly) reliable Wi-Fi in airplanes no matter where in the world we’re headed. (Some airlines even offer it for free.) But things have changed a lot since in-flight Wi-Fi was first introduced over two decades ago and became truly widespread just 10 years ago. Just like our habits in using the internet — both Wi-Fi and 5G — have changed on the ground, our demands in the air are strenuous, and we increasingly are…

By now it’s just assumed that every single time you fly economy class, the experience is going to be worse than the last time you flew. We wouldn’t be surprised if one day using an armrestcame with extra fees, but United hopes that cramped seats and poor service will be happily ignored if passengers get to spend an entire flight with their eyes glued to a 4K OLED screen.You Could Soon Get Cash Back for Your Canceled FlightLast year, Panasonic’s Avionics introduced its Astrova in-flight entertainment system, which was a…

Photo: STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP (Getty Images)The flight from LAX to DFW did not go as planned. Emerson Collins, an actor from Los Angeles, remembers the noises started before the plane even took off: strange grumblings, a weird sound like somebody was on the verge of throwing up. They were coming from the plane’s loudspeaker. Flight attendants assured passengers it was a technical mixup. It was presumed that once the flight got underway, the noises would cease. Instead, they continued for hours: weird guttural moans and…