How to Track Santa This Christmas Eve Using AI

If you’re a parent of young children, you’ll probably hear this a lot on Christmas Eve: “Where is Santa right now?” With tracking tools like the NORAD Santa Tracker And Google Santa Trackingeveryone can know when Santa Claus will arrive. Plus, there are now new AI tools to bring holiday magic.

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

Follow Santa with NORAD

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) got the very first Santa tracker in 1955. While previously it was just a boring animation of Santa’s sleigh and reindeer flying across a map, NORAD added tons of features since thenlike fun mini-games, videos, stories and Christmas music.

Recently, NORAD’s Santa Tracker partnered with OpenAI to introduce new AI-based features. These include a picture generator that turns your selfie into an animated elf character, a tool for generating toy ideas and converting them into printable coloring book pages, and a fill-in-the-blank storytelling tool that lets families add names, places, and other details to create a fun holiday story to read aloud.

Rather than a 2D model, NORAD’s Santa Tracker presents a 3D visual representation of Santa’s journey, on which the platform was built. CesiumThe open source 3D mapping library. It also uses Bing Maps Satellite Imagesmaking the globe more “realistic”.

In addition to the tracker, users can also view a “Santa Cam,” which features videos of Santa traveling the world to deliver gifts to each child on the sweet list.

The NORAD website features Santa’s Village at the North Pole, which includes a holiday countdown, arcade-style games, child-friendly music, an online library and various videos that can be viewed on the official NORAD website. YouTube channel.

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

You can also track Santa through NORAD Tracker’s social media accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter/XAnd Instagram.

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

Track Santa with Google

Google Santa Tracking launched in 2004 and simulates tracking Santa Claus. The website features a live map of Santa’s current location, his next stop, a live video feed of his route, and the estimated arrival time for each location. It also shows the total distance Santa has traveled so far and the number of gifts he has delivered.

Throughout December, the page functions as Santa’s Village, where users can play mini gamestake quizzes, watch animated videos, and explore other interactive activities. For example, players can create their own elf in Google’s “Elf Maker” game and hold a concert with “Elf Jamband.” Kids can also learn to code with simple and fun tutorials like “Code Boogie.”

Additionally, users can take help from Google Assistant to find out where Santa is. You may ask: “Hey, Google, where is Santa Claus?” or “What’s new at the North Pole?” which lets you tune into Google’s North Pole newscast, where you can hear what Santa and his elves are doing that day. Google Assistant also lets you call Santa Claus himself.

This story was updated after publication.