Hey Cruisers, i'm Sheri with
Cruise Tips TV we have a very special
episode for you today in place of our
weekly blog very exciting news from
carnival corporation this past few weeks
and we decided that there were so many
questions about this exciting
announcement that we wanted to do an
entire episode I I'm going to be reading
from some extensive notes and articles
here to provide you guys with
information so please forgive me for
glancing down at the paper on occasion
but we're talking about today is
carnival corporations new ocean
medallion if you were plugged into the
news or following the consumer
electronics show in las vegas
you've probably heard that something
very unusual happen and that is that was
the carnival CEO Arnold Donald took the
stage at the key note speaker at CES
which is very unusual for a someone
who's outside the tech world to get top
billing at a show like that and one of
our subscribers i'm not sure i can say
that's right but i'm going to try beetle
urban gardener gave us the best article
from USA Today from an actual tech
columnist who got to try out the ocean
medallion prior to the launch and prior
to the conference and we are just so
elated because there's so much real
information in this article so thank you
very much as always you are wonderful
subscribers for giving us this
information and we're going to be
summarizing and answering some questions
about this item as we go
so what is this thing it is essentially
a wearable it is the size of a token
that you can put in your pocket you can
wear this necklace you can wear it as a
watch you can buy keychains coats and
whatever that you are going to be able
to take with you on your cruise of
course that doesn't give you any
information so i'm going to explain it
further the ocean medallion actually is
something that is just this incredible
technology but it's totally secure it
can do anything from unlocking your room
door when you walk up to it you buying
whatever you want on the cruise ship to
helping you to keep track of past orders
and finding your friends so it's it's a
whole lot to understand though because
everyone's thinking okay
is this thing like Disney's Magic Band
well it is and it was made by the same
creator but it goes quite a bit beyond
that so basically what it does is it
takes gps like navigation and all types
of other technology to help your cruise
to be more personalized and special so
we mentioned that it's no bigger than a
quarter it's this tiny thing you see me
ad for it looks really fancy and
extravagant so one thing that people
want to know is is the same free and yes
it is actually free and let me tell you
how you actually get one of these before
your cruise carnival corporation will
actually mail you the medallion in a
nice little box and if you are allergic
to metal they will even send you a
little plastic wrapper to go around the
outside so it doesn't irritate your skin
I want to find the exact information
here on how you get it before your crew
think it's really fascinating
let's see here all right the medallion
is free to all passengers and comes the
plastic band to wear on your wrist you
can purchase additional accessories that
will display your medallion as a watch
necklace or kitchen which we thought we
thought they're probably be something
here that you could buy to go with it to
make it look more cool and there is no
extra cost for the device and there is
no extra cost for medallion class
cruises it is also not mandatory that
you take advantage of this technology is
totally optional if you feel like this
is Big Brother you do not have to
participate you do not have to wear it
ok we talked a little bit about the fact
that you can track passengers around the
ship
it's not a GPS system but what they're
saying is that you can select an option
allows you to locate your travel
companions via the medallion or on your
smartphone so probably using the app on
your smartphone or the smartphone or
these kiosks around the ship that will
help you can locate your friends
ok so when is this puppy coming out
what's going on why are we talking about
something that's not even coming out for
almost another year
well that is because they're having to
retrofit all these ships with all the
technology that will be involved in
enabling it so what we're going to see
is
remember on Princess Cruises regal
princess first ship to get this we're
going to see the medallion classrooms to
start and then it will expand to royal
princess and caribbean princess in early
2018 and ultimately data plan according
to Donald is to utilize the technology
on the entire fleet in the carnival
corporation family so we're going to see
it's in carnival home America canard
seaborne Kosta piano UK and piano
Australia of course we don't have all
the details on when those are going to
be coming out i'm sure that there will
be a lot of information released
throughout 2017 but that's a little bit
more information about what's going to
be happening
another thing that I thought was really
cool is that they are going to be
improving the Wi-Fi on all of the ships
with the ocean medallion so that's
pretty awesome and these little doodad
will not be using data roaming packages
their local so there's not gonna be any
extra fees involved with using the
devices as long as they're part of the
network and they're also going to be
working at the private islands
eventually to another cool thing it
sounds like they are not they're not
touch screen devices so when you look at
this little thing what you're going to
see it's basically just you know a
little plastic cover
there's no on and off button there's no
need to charge it there's no menu to
navigate so it's not something that
you're going to be happening on and
looking at to operate it's just going to
be carried with you to enable the fact
that you're in the medallion class
cruiser and it's going to store all of
your information on it so that's and
that's a little bit confusing when I
first thought I thought why is there
this little prince of logo on it looks
really funny but now i understand that
they're probably just going to be
putting something kind of generic
according to the cruise line on the the
plastic face of it so we mentioned that
they're going to be doing a massive
revamp from balusters it sounds turn it
on a leash it's not like you have to
install a really big network of sensors
and experiential computing devices so
that's going to be a lot of work and
probably why this is coming out so very
slowly because they have so much more to
do so what will it do for us
what are we going to be seeing that will
help our cruises to become more person
life what carnival corporation is saying
that will happen is that you'll have a
number of things that can happen number
one you'll be able to personalize your
dying variants little bit more maybe
checking out menus in advance from your
personal device and placing orders for
delivery anywhere you plan to be with
sounds really cool maybe pull side maybe
cabin maybe even having delivery to the
theater at a casino of drinks and food
and things like that you can know your
dietary restrictions there in advance i
think that sounds absolutely wonderful
what else will it do well it will open
your cabin door as you approach I mean
we're not even talking about scanning
this thing in front of the door it just
knows you're coming and opens the door
for you which sounds really cool it
sounds like it may also be able to turn
on your lights for you and one thing
that I thought was pretty interested in
reading this article interesting
ingredients articles that also means
that the cruise ship can turn off your
life when you're not in the room and
that can see them an enormous amount of
energy
what if they can turn off your lights
and your air conditioner when you're not
there that is energy-efficient and
that's a cost-saving sometimes i really
like that I think that's awesome that's
another thing that it will do for you
let's look at some other things so one
of the things I'm most excited about
that will be an interesting concept on
this is how they use it to make
embarkation and disembarkation smoother
and better and faster especially on
these giant ships with 3,500 people on
them how can they make it faster there
are promises that that is going to
happen we don't know how just yet but
they are saying that embarkation and
disembarkation are going to be pretty
amazing so a lot of you have expressed
concerns about safety and I want to give
you kind of the official statement from
the carnival corporation on the safety
and personal information essentially
what they're saying is that it is
associated to your guests ID but the
medallion itself contains no personal
information whatsoever so your personal
information is encrypted and it's kept
in the cloud so let's just say you lose
it you drop it in the pool you drop it
in the hallways and it's nowhere to be
found
you could go to the customer service
desk and have a new one issue to you and
have it reacted be activated immediately
or
going to these articles you could
actually be activated yourself which
sounds pretty cool to me so that is
pretty exciting i want to just go
through my articles here and just make
sure I haven't missed any of the perks
of course if you have read more about
this and I haven't you know a little bit
more about what's going to happen with
the device please be sure to leave it in
the comments below we'd love to hear
from you i know that news is coming out
about this as we speak this is really
incredible technology guys from carnival
in fact listen to this at the consumer
electronics event in vegas carnival
corporation built a 14,000 square foot
virtual cruise ship to show this thing
off and to show people how it works and
i think that is so exciting i really
wish I would've known I would have loved
to have been there probably wouldn't
have been able to anyway with working so
busy right now but I think it's so cool
love to see how the Bluetooth and NFC
technology is going to make our cruising
experience better and maybe we'll get an
opportunity to go check it out on regal
princess when it debuts hope this has
been helpful hope that you all have a
better understanding what the ocean
medallion does if you've learned more if
you have helpful articles
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