Adventure Eye Video Systems, Carnival Cruise Lines ink exclusive camera-rental kiosk deal
May 26, 2010
Adventure Eye Video Systems has announced a multi-year exclusive agreement with Carnival Cruise Lines to provide its point-of-view scuba dive/snorkel video camera rental kiosk system to all of the line's "Fun Ships." Adventure Eye Video Systems manufactures and distributes turnkey, point-of-sale, wearable video camera rental kiosks for tour operators and retail establishments. The company's system facilitates the rental of point-of-view video cameras, so consumers can record and relive their outdoor recreation adventures. Under the exclusive agreement, Adventure Eye Video Systems will provide kiosks and cameras for Carnival Cruise Lines' guests to use during dive- and snorkeling-related shore excursions. Each ship will have three kiosks with 50 Liquid Image dive masks. Adventure Eye says the patented Liquid Image 310 Camera Mask is the first dive mask in the world that includes a built-in 5.0 megapixel, high-resolution digital D1 video/still camera. The all-day rental fee for a Liquid Image dive mask, which can record more than an hour of high-resolution, DVD quality video on a 4 gigabyte Micro SD/SDHC memory card (or 22,400 still images), will be $29.95. Initially, rental systems will be installed in 11 of Carnival Cruise Lines' 22 ships sailing to the Eastern and Western Caribbean and the Bahamas, with other ship installations to be announced at a later date. Implementation began in mid-May and is scheduled to be completed by November. The rental kiosk's hardware and software is scalable, so kiosks can be upgraded as camera technologies change. "We see this as a long-term partnership with Adventure Eye Video Systems and are looking forward to providing our guests with this unique way of capturing their 'Fun Ship' vacation memories," said Joseph Acosta, director of technical entertainment and A/V for Carnival Cruise Lines.