Australian airline Qantas and Samsung will soon allow passengers to watch movies in virtual realities on flights.
The collaboration will give passengers traveling between Australian and the U.S. the chance watch a variety of content with the Samsung Gear VR headset, according to BBC News.
Qantas group executive Olivia Wirth said the headsets will provide "favorite Hollywood blockbusters," though the amount of content currently available in the format has yet to be revealed. She added that production company Jaunt is helping create more content for passengers to watch.
The airline will let passengers use the headsets not only on flights, but also in first-class airport lounges in Sydney and Melbourne, TIME reported.
Some are still not convinced that flights and virtual reality make a good mix, such as Ben Wood, director of telecoms consultancy CCS Insight, who said people wearing Gear looking behind them and fidgeting constantly could be annoying to people not wearing the headset, BBC News reported.
Wood is also concerned with the safety of such an experience, saying that people wearing VR headsets "would be completely unaware of what is going on around them and presumably it would not be linked in to the in-flight safety announcements."
Wirth, however, is much more optimistic, saying that the technology "gives us a completely new way to connect with our customers."
Qantas will make the Gear VR available at lounges in Sydney and Melbourne in February, but passengers will have to wait until mid-March to start using the headset on certain flights between Australia and Los Angeles. The trial is currently scheduled to last for three months.
