Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals
All Nippon Airways (ANA) showcases its HONU aircraft configuration and ANA Avatar application at JATA Tourism Expo 2018 from 20 to 23 September 2018.
HONU aircraft configuration
HONU is the affectionate name of ANA's A380 aircraft which will be deployed on service to Honolulu from Narita sometime in spring 2019. There will be three A380 aircraft in different Hawaiian green sea turtle or honu-themed livery colours, of which the first A380 aircraft has completed construction recently at Airbus.
ANA's A380 aircraft has 383 Economy Class seats on the main deck. Known as ANACouch ii, each Economy Class seat has the foot rest extended from the front of the seat such that a passenger can stretch his foot and sleep on the seat. A normal Economy Class passenger on other wide-body and narrow-body aircraft does not have the privilege to extend his legs along on a foot rest.
The A380 aircraft has 8 First-Class seats on the upper deck that looks like an office and rest corner while there are 56 Business Class seats and 73 Premium Economy Class seats on the upper deck.
ANA Avatar Application - the future of experiencing travel remotely
The most popular product of ANA at the travel exposition is the ANA Avatar application. In March 2018, ANA announced it will launch ANA Avatar Vision, which will use Avatar, to address social issues and create new services for the benefit of humanity and the application allows anyone in the world to easily connect to a remote avatar, and will form the basis for the world's newest form of physical transportation, according to ANA in its statement at ana-avatar.com.
An avatar is a robot that is remotely controlled by a human. It ideally enables a person to "see, hear, feel and interact" freely in a remote environment in real time through the integration of multiple exponential technologies.
At the JATA Tourism Expo 2018, the ANA Avatar application allows visitors to use the application for free to view an office in the US that has installed the avatar, thus learning about the technology that will eventually allow people to move and communicate as if they were actually in those locations.
By April 2019 when the full ANA Avatar application and avatar are launched officially for commercial uses, users need to pay ANA after downloading the application via handphone, laptop, PC, digital TV, tablet for using the application to view overseas tourist destinations, for example, without the need to buy an air ticket to fly to the airports in order to reach the destinations.
Kevin Kajitani, the ANA Avatar Co-Director, illustrates how to use the application and avatar in the pictures above. He illustrates further. If a user wants to see a foreign museum's artefacts during closing hours, he can view them online from the comfort of his home, only if the museum has an ANA avatar robot.
The application allows mobile teleconferencing, live streaming and much more at the touch of a mouse or button.
Visitors can view an Okinawa aquarium at the ANA booth due to the installation of an avatar in Okinawa.
ANA avatars have been installed under trial basis in Tokyo, Oita and Hiroshima. More cities in Japan will see more installations of avatars as soon as the application is fully-developed.
ANA hopes to market the robots and application through its sales and ticketing offices worldwide in due course. These services will benefit busy white-collar workers in foreign cities with high-rising costs such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Buenos Aires and Africa in time to come.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals
All Nippon Airways (ANA) showcases its HONU aircraft configuration and ANA Avatar application at JATA Tourism Expo 2018 from 20 to 23 September 2018.
HONU aircraft configuration
HONU is the affectionate name of ANA's A380 aircraft which will be deployed on service to Honolulu from Narita sometime in spring 2019. There will be three A380 aircraft in different Hawaiian green sea turtle or honu-themed livery colours, of which the first A380 aircraft has completed construction recently at Airbus.
ANA's A380 aircraft has 383 Economy Class seats on the main deck. Known as ANACouch ii, each Economy Class seat has the foot rest extended from the front of the seat such that a passenger can stretch his foot and sleep on the seat. A normal Economy Class passenger on other wide-body and narrow-body aircraft does not have the privilege to extend his legs along on a foot rest.
The A380 aircraft has 8 First-Class seats on the upper deck that looks like an office and rest corner while there are 56 Business Class seats and 73 Premium Economy Class seats on the upper deck.
ANA Avatar Application - the future of experiencing travel remotely
The most popular product of ANA at the travel exposition is the ANA Avatar application. In March 2018, ANA announced it will launch ANA Avatar Vision, which will use Avatar, to address social issues and create new services for the benefit of humanity and the application allows anyone in the world to easily connect to a remote avatar, and will form the basis for the world's newest form of physical transportation, according to ANA in its statement at ana-avatar.com.
An avatar is a robot that is remotely controlled by a human. It ideally enables a person to "see, hear, feel and interact" freely in a remote environment in real time through the integration of multiple exponential technologies.
At the JATA Tourism Expo 2018, the ANA Avatar application allows visitors to use the application for free to view an office in the US that has installed the avatar, thus learning about the technology that will eventually allow people to move and communicate as if they were actually in those locations.
By April 2019 when the full ANA Avatar application and avatar are launched officially for commercial uses, users need to pay ANA after downloading the application via handphone, laptop, PC, digital TV, tablet for using the application to view overseas tourist destinations, for example, without the need to buy an air ticket to fly to the airports in order to reach the destinations.
Kevin Kajitani, the ANA Avatar Co-Director, illustrates how to use the application and avatar in the pictures above. He illustrates further. If a user wants to see a foreign museum's artefacts during closing hours, he can view them online from the comfort of his home, only if the museum has an ANA avatar robot.
The application allows mobile teleconferencing, live streaming and much more at the touch of a mouse or button.
Visitors can view an Okinawa aquarium at the ANA booth due to the installation of an avatar in Okinawa.
ANA avatars have been installed under trial basis in Tokyo, Oita and Hiroshima. More cities in Japan will see more installations of avatars as soon as the application is fully-developed.
ANA hopes to market the robots and application through its sales and ticketing offices worldwide in due course. These services will benefit busy white-collar workers in foreign cities with high-rising costs such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Buenos Aires and Africa in time to come.
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