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The Regal Princess will set sail this November with a new "Medallion Class" experience. Take a look inside.
[...] Start by imagining a smart home, decked out with sophisticated tech and sensors. But instead of a residence for a few people, it can handle 3,560 guests at any time.
That's exactly what Carnival has done with the Regal Princess, the first ship in its Princess Cruises' fleet to get a massive technological overhaul as part of the Ocean Medallion project, first glimpsed back in January at CES.
Carnival's decision is yet another example of a company investing in cutting-edge tech designed to better serve customers and cater to their more sophisticated needs. From theme parks embracing virtual reality to airlines offering more advanced in-flight entertainment, vacations are increasingly going high tech. Now, Carnival is stepping up its game.
[...] "In theory, this technology will enhance the guest's experience," [The Sunday Times' Sue] Bryant said. "It makes it easier for crew members to recognize a guest and address them by name, for example, which is something that wouldn't normally happen on a big ship with a couple of thousand guests."
Each medallion and a related smartphone app will also streamline the boarding process, open your room's door, remember your wine preferences, let you book reservations for activities, send you invitations to events and allow you to make purchases from anywhere on the ship. It's like a digital concierge and planning guide. There is also an opt-in location service that lets you keep tabs on everyone in your group and shows you where they are at any time.
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(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday June 06 2017, @11:26PM
I am pretty sure that Carnival did not take a house, give it home automation devices, stretch it or build and aggregate more of it until it slept 3,560 people, and dropped it into the water. It would sink.
Since carnival didn't do that--I assure you--there's no reason to say that they did.
I know that there is this thing about having to explain things with car analogies with units of measure in libraries of congress, and I get that, I truly do. But random inane comparisons that fail at any semblance of parallelism should just stop.
Once you figure out how to explain smart cruise ships in a way that small minds can easily grasp (perhaps you could start with "smart houseboat" instead of "smart home"; at least houseboats float), then you can move on to NOT calling every non-gas-giant exoplanet "a (super|sub|nother) Earth" for the simple reason that each planet so described to date has resembled Earth approximately equally in the way that it resembles an asteroid, or a baked potato. That is to say, very little.
That is all.