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This holiday season, the Official NORAD Tracks Santa site is back and better than ever, thanks to Radar the Elf. Radar is an AI-powered question and answer elf designed to enhance your Santa tracking experience by answering questions about Santa and NORAD in 133 supported languages.
Look for the little Radar image at the bottom left of the NoradSanta.org site
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One of the standout features of Radar is its ability to translate text on the fly, allowing for seamless multilingual interactions. Whether you're asking about Santa's current location or the history of NORAD's Santa tracking, Radar can provide answers in your preferred language.
Samples of Radar's responses in multiple languages
Radar also uses both indicated and stored language preferences, automatically translating messages based on these preferences across sessions. This means that once you've set your preferred language, and choose to "allow cookies", Radar will remember it for future interactions, making your experience even more personalized. Even without cookies, Radar will use the first language chosen as the preferred language with each new session.
Additionally, users can change their language while chatting with Radar at any time. Ask the same question in multiple languages and Radar will adjust accordingly, ensuring that you can switch languages to one of your preferences without any hassle.
With Radar the Elf, the NORAD Santa Tracker is more accessible and user-friendly than ever before. So, get ready to track Santa in your preferred language and enjoy a magical holiday season with NORAD and Microsoft Bing Maps. We have a few sample questions for Radar to get you started...
| When will Santa be at my house? | It seems Santa typically arrives between 9 p.m. and midnight on Christmas Eve, but only when children are asleep! |
| How does Santa get all the way around the world in just one night? | NORAD intelligence reports indicate that Santa does not experience time the way we do. It seems that Santa has this way of transcending time. We’ve estimated that he travels at the speed of starlight! |
So head over to the Official NORAD Tracks Santa site and meet Radar for yourself and try some questions like
- Where is Santa now?
- Does Santa ever get cold?
- Do reindeer eat cookies?
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Introducing Radar the Elf
NORAD is once again set to track Santa with the help of Microsoft Bing Maps and an AI elf named Radar. You can ask Radar anything you want to know about Santa and NORAD
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