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I don't know about you, but I find that to be dystopian and weird. Nothing against windowless airplanes but damn, that thing is weird and scary. It's straight out of Black Mirror [1]. One of these days some PM will have the great idea to overlay some promo bullshit on top of it and in the future basically make you watch 'safety' messages or ads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

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Note that you can turn it off at any time. And there are no ads there, it's just a pure 4K 60fps stream from the bridge with some artifical railings rendered on top. There are even 2 cameras, one for each side, and you get the view in the correct direction.

My position is also to not remove any windows, but give the 90% of passengers without a window seat a window seat.

> Note that you can turn it off at any time. And there are no ads there, it's just a pure 4K 60fps stream from the bridge with some artifical railings rendered on top. There are even 2 cameras, one for each side, and you get the view in the correct direction.

I'm not saying that your wrong or that's it's not interesting/cool, I'm just saying give it a few years and some profit forecast misses and then we'll talk.

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