The Imersifi team is proud to have been awarded second place winners of the Airbus future of flight challenge. The challenge, which attracted more than 60 submissions from individuals, teams, and companies was posted on the HeroX crowdsourcing platform – generating more than 16,800 views. Airbus was looking for immersive, experiential ways in which a passenger can interact with the metaverse during the travel process, and how this exciting new technology could be applied to revolutionize the future of air travel.
The submissions were judged by 14 employees from across the Airbus Commercial Aircraft business in terms of user experience, creativity, and novelty, as well as ease of implementation. Five winners were then chosen to share a prize pool.
The winning entry was from Capgemini, an international information technology services company. Their proposal was for a virtual town square with many branching activities for passengers during flight. The Imersifi team is gratified that there is a significant amount of synergy between our Airbus-Verse Hub application and Capgemini’s town square, with many similar offerings for things such as passenger shopping and both addressing the needs of passengers when in flight.
You can find out what Airbus had to say about the challenge here.