MondoWindow challenging bloated $6 billion in-flight entertainment industry - turns plane into a 'geobrowser'

About MondoWindow

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MondoWindow provides web based, in-flight, location-aware content and entertainment to wifi-connected airline passengers. MondoWindow is a map that tells you where you are and what you’re looking at as you fly; it turns the plane into a geobrowser, availing the passenger of points of interest, audio, video, games, and social interaction from partners in the top tier of each respective content area.

History

The company was founded by Tyler Sterkel, a technologist and museum curator, and Greg Dicum, an interactive producer and journalist. The concept grew out of Greg’s Window Seat books, a series that helped airline passengers understand the landscape beneath them.

MondoWindow is the first product for the wifi-connected airline passenger. As such, it leads the disruptive charge in the $6 billion in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry—an inefficient, bloated sector that is the last major consumer media space still largely untransformed by the Internet.

Current Status

MondoWindow launched a beta at South by Southwest in March 2011. The core technology, for which a provisional patent application has been filed, was developed by Stamen Design. At present, MondoWindow is developing key partnerships while continuing on its product development roadmap. The goal is to launch a revised beta version to the general public in time for the start of the summer travel season.

via mondowindow.com

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