Royal Caribbean International has come up with a virtual train ride dining experience for its sixth Oasis-class ship, Utopia of the Seas, being delivered next June, according to travelweekly.com.
The experience will be designed to resemble a train dining car using real train parts, steam and a train platform. The virtual train dining experience will include a train station and bar leading to two train car façades. Dinner reservations will be displayed on a digital screen at the station like the classic split-flap displays used at train stations until the late 20th century.
Cruise-arabia.com reports that the restaurant will use large high-definition screens as train windows to take diners on virtual train rides throughout the world. Looking out of these ‘windows’, guests will see footage from the American West, France, the Baltics and other destinations gliding past, with food offerings to match the location.
“We could take you through a multicourse, multisensory experience that would allow you to visit multiple destinations through a culinary journey, visually see it and do it in a train experience on a cruise ship," said Chief Product Innovation Officer, Jay Schneider.
Schneider said Royal Caribbean did not want the windows to merely be screens. “We want it to be a window into the world through a train car.”
