The official Santa Tracker from American Aerospace Protection Command (NORAD) has been refreshed for 2024. The tracker has existed for over 20 years and has obtained a number of contributions from Microsoft.

Microsoft has added a brand new AI-powered chatbot referred to as “Radar The Elf” this 12 months, which takes questions and solutions to boost your Santa monitoring expertise. Christmas elves are sometimes depicted as diminutive creatures with pointed ears and colourful apparel. They reside with Santa on the North Pole and act as his helpers.

To begin utilizing the chatbot, click on on the radar button on the backside left nook of the tracker webpage. A chatbox will seem the place you possibly can ask questions in pure language, and the chatbot will reply accordingly. For example, you possibly can ask questions like “The place is Santa now?” or “Does Santa get chilly?” or “Do reindeer eat cookies?”

Microsoft’s Radar the Elf can reply questions on Santa and NORAD in 133 languages. It additionally helps real-time language translation, permitting you to have multilingual interactions. The chatbot will regulate robotically should you ask the identical query in a number of languages.

You possibly can set your most popular language and permit cookies on the web site; Radar will bear in mind the language preferences for future interactions. “Even with out cookies, Radar will use the primary language chosen as the popular language with every new session,” Microsoft stated in a weblog submit.

You can too click on on any of the homes on the tracker webpage to entry the library, play video games, discover Santa music, watch movies about Santa, and extra. NORAD Santa Tracker will go reside in about three and a half days when Santa will begin his journey from the North Pole to journey world wide and ship presents to kids alongside the way in which.

For those who’re questioning how Santa will pull off the feat in a single night time, “NORAD intelligence experiences point out that Santa doesn’t expertise time the way in which we do. Plainly Santa has this manner of transcending time. We’ve estimated that he travels on the velocity of starlight!” the chatbot responded.

The Santa Tracker can also be accessible as an app for Android and iOS.