Wired: Disney's billion dollar bet on MagicBands
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From the Wired feature:
MagicBands, tech-studded wristbands available to every visitor to the Magic Kingdom, feature a long-range radio that can transmit more than 40 feet in every direction. The hostess, on her modified iPhone, received a signal when the family was just a few paces away. Tanner family inbound! The kitchen also queued up: Two French onion soups, two roast beef sandwiches! When they sat down, a radio receiver in the table picked up the signals from their MagicBands and triangulated their location using another receiver in the ceiling. The server—as in waitperson, not computer array—knew what they ordered before they even approached the restaurant and knew where they were sitting.
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It already was.
So I guess if Disney did cgi pubic hair, would it talk? Have super powers?
No, but the animatronic pubic hair will talk and recognize you by name via your Magic Band...
But then again, what do I know?
I'm curious (though dreading) seeing how these play out at DL and DCA. The traffic patterns are so different (It's a locals park). I'm sure I will adjust, but the potential disruption to the normal way people use the parks is going to be hell.
Thoughts, now that we're a year or so into magic bands?
Could it be possible that MagicBands will be a Florida-only thing? With four theme parks, two water parks and one bazillion rooms, WDW operates on a much different level than any of the other Disney resorts around the world.
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
--Fran Lebowitz
Maybe at first, this will be a Florida only thing, but I think this is a preview of the life we will all live in the near future. It doesn't only have to be used in a theme park/vacation setting.
Can you imagine wearing your magicband every single day as you go through your daily routines? It could be either kind of creepy, or amazing.
-Travis
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I think it's both. Like all progress it has good and bad. There are tradeoffs.
If you want the amazing, you have to take the creepy too.
It's a package deal.
Lord Gonchar said:
If you want the amazing, you have to take the creepy too.
It's a package deal.
That's how I proposed to my wife.
Hi
"It's a package deal." is not the same thing as "I have this weird deal with my package."
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