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[Slidell]

"Bonjour! I invite you to go to your boarding gate. Paris Airports  wishes you a bon voyage," the attendant in front of you smiles. Except  he isn't really in front of you—he's not real. He's a hologram at Paris'  Orly Airport Hall 40.  Paris' smaller, secondary Orly Airport serves primarily flights  headed south towards Corisica. Recently its Hall 40 received a bit of an  upgrade. In addition to creating additional seating and room for 400  waiting passengers, they also installed these incredible Holographic  Boarding Agents (hint: it's the guy on the left.)

Now, these agents aren't the free-standing "Obi-Wan, You're My Only  Hope" sort of holograms we've been promised since the '70s. Instead, a  prerecorded video image is rear-projected onto a human-shaped piece of  Plexiglass to alert passengers when and where to get on their flight.  And while it won't be able to tear a ticket like a real attendant, Orly  authorities hope that they will provide a more intuitive means of  displaying boarding info. According to officials, the 2D agents have  received a generally positive. "Children like it, it's fun. They're  attracted to it and try to play with it," Didier Leroy, the airport's  director of operations, told the AP.

And hey, at least they won't strike like their flesh-and-blood counterparts!

http://gizmodo.com/5...boarding-agents

[Quinn]

Slidell, on 18 August 2011 - 07:13 PM, said:

And hey, at least they won't strike like their flesh-and-blood counterparts!

pwned

[groundog]

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[hallijonny]

Most of the passengers are trying to touch the Holographic Boarding Agent in Paris Airport. They are very surprised while touching the agent and feel like a video game playing while speaking with him. Latest technology behind the images are really fantastic. Children are trying to play with him,  The airport authority hopes will be more eye-catching and easier for passengers to understand than traditional electronic display terminals.