{"id":10456,"date":"2021-01-28T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:01:26","slug":"virgin-hyperloop-unveils-passenger-experience-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2021\/01\/28\/virgin-hyperloop-unveils-passenger-experience-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Hyperloop Unveils Passenger Experience Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just months after their first passenger testing<\/a>, Virgin Hyperloop<\/a> today unveiled its vision for the future hyperloop experience. The newly-released concept video<\/a> takes the viewer step-by-step through a hyperloop journey, from arriving at the portal to boarding the pod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DP World, the Dubai-based leading global provider of smart logistics solutions, is a major investor in Virgin Hyperloop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sultan <\/strong>Ahmed <\/strong>Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO of DP World and Chairman of Virgin Hyperloop<\/strong>, said: \u201cShowing the passenger experience of Virgin Hyperloop is a glimpse of the future, following the success three months ago when people rode in a hyperloop pod for the first time. We have demonstrated the maturity of our technology. We are getting closer to commercialisation of what will be the first new mass-scale transportation mode in a century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDesigning a new mode of transportation from scratch is both an opportunity and a responsibility,\u201d said Sara Luchian, Virgin Hyperloop\u2019s Director of Passenger Experience<\/strong> and one of the first people to ride the hyperloop in November. \u201cHyperloop technology \u2013 and what it enables \u2013 is paradigm-shifting. It follows that the passenger experience should be nothing short of extraordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virgin Hyperloop worked with world-class partners across disparate industries \u2013 including Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)<\/a> for the portal designs, Teague<\/a> for the pod designs, SeeThree<\/a> for the video and animation, and Man Made M<\/a>u<\/a>sic<\/a> for the score and sonic identity\u00a0 \u2013 to design a comprehensive, multi-sensory passenger experience that surpasses that of any other form of mass transit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVirgin Hyperloop can accelerate the future of mobility on land. The new mode of travel at supersonic speed rethinks transportation and the perception of space, landscape, time, and distance,\u201d said Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.<\/strong>\u201cIn this day and age, Virgin Hyperloop taking off from our portals provides holistic, intelligent transportation for a globalized community to travel across vast distances in a safer, cleaner, easier, and faster way than airlines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far from a dystopian future where dark colors, stark lighting, and screens abound, Virgin Hyperloop\u2019s counter narrative is a more optimistic view of the future: a greener, smoother, safer, and more pleasant mass transit experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We leveraged decades of experience designing how people and things move across various modalities \u2013 taking some of the best aspects from aviation, rail, automotive, and even hospitality to create a new and better passenger experience that is distinct to Virgin Hyperloop,\u201d said John Barratt, CEO & President, Teague. \u201c<\/strong>Recessed seat wells provide a greater sense of space, while the raised aisle is a touch of the unexpected and unique. Bands of greenery and wood textures subvert the aesthetic of typical mass transit materials with something optimistic and fresh. All lighting in the pod\u2014including the unassuming information displays\u2014are dynamic and adjust based on traveler activity and journey milestones.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the typical touchpoints in transportation, Virgin Hyperloop also researched and incorporated findings from more non-traditional interactions, such as sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough proprietary research and a design thinking approach to creating sound and sonic solutions for Virgin Hyperloop, Man Made Music was able to address a myriad of potential challenges for this new mode of transportation, from how to evoke a sense of privacy and space to an enhanced sense of safety and calm,\u201d said Joel Beckerman, Founder and Lead Composer at Man Made Music<\/strong>. \u201cWe respond to sound quicker than any other sense, so sound actually drives the multi-sensory experiences. The sonic cues of the Virgin Hyperloop identity system serves as a guide for passengers throughout their experience while instilling confidence, safety, and clarity \u2013 you \u2018feel\u2019 it rather than \u2018hear\u2019 it. Just like a great movie score, it tells you the story. We know when we\u2019ve got it right when you don\u2019t notice the sound at all: the interface is humanized in ways that are both fresh and familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key pillar of Virgin Hyperloop\u2019s passenger experience is accessibility, ensuring that this new form of transportation will expand opportunities for the masses. While ticket prices will vary depending on the exact route, a recent study in Ohio <\/a>found that hyperloop fares would be more akin to the cost of driving, rather than flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s simple. If it\u2019s not affordable, people won\u2019t use it,\u201d said Jay Walder, CEO of Virgin Hyperloop<\/strong>. \u201cDaily high-speed transport is currently not feasible for most people, but we want to change that notion. Imagine being able to commute between cities that are currently hours apart in minutes \u2013 and the endless possibilities that opens up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On demand and direct to destination, the hyperloop system would be able to transport thousands of passengers per hour, despite the fact that each vehicle carries only about 28 passengers. This high throughput is achieved by convoying, where vehicles are able to travel behind one another in the tube within milliseconds, controlled by Virgin Hyperloop\u2019s machine intelligence software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following their successful passenger testing, Virgin Hyperloop is currently paving the way for the regulation and certification<\/a> of hyperloop systems around the world. The company aims to achieve safety certification by 2025, with commercial operations \u2013 such as those depicted in this video \u2013 beginning in 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just months after their first passenger testing, Virgin Hyperloop today unveiled its vision for the future hyperloop experience. The newly-released concept video takes the viewer step-by-step through a hyperloop journey, from arriving at the portal to boarding the pod. DP World, the Dubai-based leading global provider of smart logistics solutions, is a major investor in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10458,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions\/10458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}