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The past few times I've been to the movies it's been to Cinemark theaters since they added the cupholder-based captioning devices to almost all of their theater
by shade 13y ago
The past few times I've been to the movies it's been to Cinemark theaters since they added the cupholder-based captioning devices to almost all of their theaters a few years ago. They work well, but as the article noted, they're a pain because they're out of the line of sight and often don't want to sit still in the cupholder. When my fiancee and I went to see Les Miserables I spent pretty much the entire movie holding onto the captioning device with one hand to keep it positioned where I want it.
We have a couple of Regal theaters near us, so I'm definitely looking forward to trying this system out as well.
As for the comments on Glass -- yes, a real-time captioning device using Glass would be a killer app for me, and if it worked at all well it would be a "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" sort of thing. There would be some challenges to deal with (noisy environments, better speech recognition still -- Youtube's automatic captions still aren't there) but if they can surmount those, I'd be extremely interested.