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Re:The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Fly... by nervousvarun on Thursday November 10, 2022 @01:56PM (#33551332)
This "problem" goes away if you just have one of the feeds in the seat-back entertainment system be a wing mounted camera view no?
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Re:The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Fly... by kridsdale2 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:28PM (#33551758)
Maybe if you had it in stereo 3D and gave the passengers a VR display.
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Re:The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Fly... by tengbretson on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:53PM (#33553986)
If that were true, why would the person be on the plane in the first place? Couldn't they just watch a movie of their destination or zoom call the person they were visiting from home?
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Re:The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Fly... by nordsieck on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:50PM (#33554742)
> If that were true, why would the person be on the plane in the first place? Couldn't they just watch a movie of their destination or zoom call the person they were visiting from home?

It can be the case that both:

* watching a video of the plane moving through the air is an effective way to mitigate some of the discomfort of flying

* meeting face to face with someone is valuable enough that it's worth taking the flight

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Re:The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Fly... by ikrenji on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:17PM (#33555027)
? people go on planes to get to places not to experience flight itself per se. i don't mind sitting in an enclosed room for x amount of hours while it gets me half-way across the world for cheap
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