How to follow Santa Claus on Christmas Eve using AI

If you’re a parent with young children, chances are you’ll hear a lot at Christmas: “Where is Santa right now?” I am tracking devices if NORAD Santa Tracker and Google’s Santa Trackereveryone can know when Father Christmas will arrive. Plus, there are new AI tools to bring some holiday magic.

Here’s how to follow Santa’s journey on Christmas Eve with the help of AI.

Follow Santa Claus and NORAD

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) had the first Santa tracker in 1955. Although at first it was just boring videos of Santa flying around the map with a reindeer, NORAD added tons of stuff since thensuch as fun mini-games, videos, stories, and Christmas songs.

More recently, NORAD’s Santa Tracker partnered with OpenAI introducing AI-driven innovations. These include a photo generator that turns your selfie into an elf, a tool to create doll ideas and turn them into printable coloring pages, and a storytelling tool that lets families add names, locations, and more to create a fun holiday story to read aloud.

Instead of being a 2D version, the NORAD Santa tracker has a 3D image of Santa’s journey, as the tower was built on. Cesium‘s open source 3D library. They also use it Satellite imagery for Bing Mapsmaking the world seem more “real”.

Along with the tracker tool, users can also view the “Santa Cam,” which features videos of Santa traveling around the world to deliver gifts to each child on a good list.

NORAD’s website features Santa’s North Pole Village, which includes holiday countdowns, games, children’s music, an online library, and a variety of videos that can be viewed at the NORAD office. YouTube way.

NORAD Santa tracker is available at noradsanta.orgor you can download the official NORAD Tracks Santa Claus app at Apple App Store or Google Play Store. This website is available in English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

You can also track Santa through NORAD Tracker accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter/Xand Instagram.

For more information, call 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6732), and speak with a volunteer from the organization’s call center who can inform you of Santa’s location.

Follow Santa Claus with Google

Google’s Santa Tracker was established in 2004 and follow Santa’s tracking. The website has a map of Santa’s current location, his next location, live video of his route, and estimated times of arrival at each location. It also shows the total distance Santa has traveled so far and the number of presents he has delivered.

Throughout December, the site functions as Santa’s Village, where users can play a small gameask questions, watch videos, and see other activities. For example, players can create their own elf in Google’s “Elf Maker” game and attend a concert with the “Elf Jamband.” Kids can also learn to code with simple and fun lessons like “Code Boogie.”

In addition, users can ask for help from Google Assistant to find out where Santa is. You can ask, “Hey, Google, where’s Santa?” or “What’s new at the North Pole?” which lets you watch Google’s North Pole Newscast, where you can hear what Santa and his elves are up to. Google Assistant lets you call Santa himself.

This article was edited after publication.