Friday 28 October 2022, 12:25
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A state-of-the-art technological system has been installed at the Detroit, Michigan airport, called “parallel reality”.
Specifically, after passengers have scanned their boarding pass at the terminals at the airport entrance, they begin to see flight information on the screens. The innovative part is that on the same screen that tens or hundreds of people are watching, everyone only sees information about their flight.
Normally, a pixel on the screen sends color in all directions. Airport screens have multi-view pixels, nicknamed magic pixels, which can send out different colors in tens of thousands of directions.
When passengers scan their boarding pass, sensors on the ceiling match their body shape as seen from above. The sensors know exactly where the passenger’s body shape is in front of the screen and tell the magic pixels to send personalized information in that direction, which only that person sees.
In addition, people are welcomed by name and given all necessary information in their language.
The system will be developed so that all airport screens show personalized information: which direction you need to go to the boarding gate, how many minutes it takes to get there, any delays, where your baggage lane is, etc.
