Category: Travel

The travel industry has come a long way from the travel office to the travel website to the travel app. Business travelers are especially liking these trends. Travel apps are a great downloading favorite now a days, making mobile a necessity for every traveler.

Volkswagen and Microsoft launch augmented reality glasses project

Sam Lambert
augmented reality glasses - technology

The companies are working to use the HoloLens 2 to bring AR into the driving experience. Volkswagen and Microsoft have announced that they will be collaborating on a HoloLens 2 augmented reality glasses project that will bring the experience right into a driver’s own vehicle. The idea is to provide a holographic display of relevant information right when the driver needs it. The augmented reality glasses project would bring technology closer to being able to provide information such as traffic conditions, weather reports, shopping recommendations and highlights of points of…

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Burning Man is exclusively a free virtual reality event in 2021

Julie Campbell
Virtual reality event - Virtual Burn 2021 Teaser BRCvr - Burning Man Project

The world-famous desert festival has gone entirely digital this year and is accepting donations. Burning Man has announced that it will be a virtual reality event in 2021 that will be free to everyone but that will be accepting donations for anyone who wishes to do so. The VR experience will allow people to wander the landscapes and the art from their own homes. The decision to turn Burning Man into a virtual reality event this year was due to the threat of the COVID-19 Delta variant. This is the…

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Australia tests NFC technology for travel visa into country

L. Green
NFC technology - Person scanning mobile

The country’s Department of Home Affairs is piloting a Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) application. The Australian Department of Home Affairs has announced that it will be testing a new Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) app using NFC technology for a contact-free entry visa. The use of near field communication will help to quickly verify and authenticate a traveler’s credentials. The NFC technology would work through an enabled mobile device in conjunction with the individual’s passport. The application will use both near field communication and optical character recognition (OCR) to read, capture…

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Air India passengers flying out must show mandatory QR code for negative COVID test

John Montgallo
Mandatory QR code - Air India plane

They will need to display a quick response barcode proving a negative RT-PCR report. International passengers flying Air India out of India are required to carry a negative RT-PCR test report and the mandatory QR code linked with that original report. The requirement is mandated to help reduce the instance of forged or false negative resorts. A significant number of faked negative reports were being carried by passengers travelling out of India. The mandatory QR code linked to genuine test results is meant to make it more difficult – if…

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