For those who loved Tom Cruise’ 2001 big movie hit Vanilla Sky or for those who always feared traveling by air, you’ll want to read this. Airbus, the world’s leading commercial aircraft manufacturer, has recently made a patent application for a virtual reality isolation helmet that might change the way we think of flying.
With similar looks to what we’re used to seeing in Sci-Fi movies, the helmet would allow the users to fully immerse themselves in in-flight entertainment as it cancels out all other peripheral noise. Created by French designer Bernard Guering, the device includes a carrier and a helmet for at least partially housing the head of the passenger.
According to the patent application, the helmet is attached to the carrier and is movably mounted in relation to the it. Its most important feature is the capacity of the device to completely isolate the passenger from any exterior disturbance and create a sort of virtual reality. Its creators have designed it with several options, as the isolation can be a sound, visual and/or olfactory, total or partial for any of these aspects.
Each in-flight headset would come with a built-in video screen, glasses for better viewing and earphones designed to be used while watching films, listening to music or playing video games.
Will it become reality? It’s hard to say. “It is just a patent. In order to satisfy the needs of our airline customers and their passengers, our industry looks into the future a year and a hundred years ahead,” Airbus Communications Manager Mary Anne Greczyn told Yahoo. It turns out the company files thousands of patents for almost anything the design team create, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they all make it to production.
According to the patent application, the helmet is attached to the carrier and is movably mounted in relation to the it. Its most important feature is the capacity of the device to completely isolate the passenger from any exterior disturbance and create a sort of virtual reality. Its creators have designed it with several options, as the isolation can be a sound, visual and/or olfactory, total or partial for any of these aspects.
Each in-flight headset would come with a built-in video screen, glasses for better viewing and earphones designed to be used while watching films, listening to music or playing video games.
Will it become reality? It’s hard to say. “It is just a patent. In order to satisfy the needs of our airline customers and their passengers, our industry looks into the future a year and a hundred years ahead,” Airbus Communications Manager Mary Anne Greczyn told Yahoo. It turns out the company files thousands of patents for almost anything the design team create, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they all make it to production.
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