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Airports Open Virtual-Reality Lounges to Occupy Angry Travelers
Canceled flights don’t have to mean sitting at the terminal bar watching football.
A Gameway lounge at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Source: GamewayAs airport time killers, cocktails will never lose their most-favored status. But the race for novel concessions inside the terminal is becoming more, well, playful. Especially when it comes to mollifying less-than-happy passengers.
Last month, the first U.S. airport video game lounges opened with three dozen Microsoft Corp. Xbox rigs at Dallas-Fort Worth International, while John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York is hosting the first virtual-reality “experience center” this summer for the 70,000 travelers who traverse Terminal 4 each day.