It’s being touted as a breakthrough in promotional cruise videos. But Princess Cruises, with its “Sun Princess Video Tour,” is making a virtue out of a necessity.
The 15-minute video uses computerized 3-D animation to take potential cruisers on a video tour of the new ship. But what else is Princess going to show? The 100,000-ton-plus megaship is still being built and won’t enter service until December.
(However, the cabins shown are not computerized; they’re real–or at least real models.)
Promotional videos of cruise ships are becoming commonplace, but they can’t take the place of a good cruise brochure. In fact, this video has the look–albeit with a lot more high-tech flair–of those deck plans that almost every cruise brochure has.
It’s a reasonable substitute until the real thing comes along, but virtual reality this is not.
This video is not for sale, but it can be “borrowed”; call your travel agent for details.