Subtitle glasses could help deaf, foreigners at the movies

[Miss-Delectable]

Subtitle glasses could help deaf, foreigners at the movies - Engadget

Looking to expand the moviegoing experience as much as possible -- especially in this day and age of 103-inch plasmas -- a research team at the University Carlos III of Madrid has unveiled an upgrade for the problematic rear-window captioning system currently used by the deaf: a glasses-mounted subtitle screen.

Featuring a three hour battery life and a 50 meter range, the little clippy-screen isn't as hard-core as some other enhanced vision devices we've seen, but there's something to be said for doing one job well.

That range is pretty long though - no word yet on how the MPAA plans to deal with people sitting outside the the theater and reading the latest flicks for free.

 

[Foxrac]

I don't like this new product.

I rather to watch movies with OC supported, that no problem with me.

 

[Capmeister]

I was watching a show on the History Channel some time back... "The Private Voice of Hitler." Hitler's old "home" movies where without any sound, but this brilliant German man (he's deaf) who is an expert in lip reading has created a computer program that can read lips--even at an angle--and produce both voice and text for what the lips show. And it works amazingly.

If that kind of technology could be adapted to such glasses, imagine putting on glasses to use in public and understand what people were saying with ease--and perhaps being able to reply via some high-tech watch on one's wrist that would interpret signs as they're being made and give voice to them for hearing people who couldn't sign?

I don't think such technology is impossible someday.

 

[DeafSCUBA98]

I was watching a show on the History Channel some time back... "The Private Voice of Hitler." Hitler's old "home" movies where without any sound, but this brilliant German man (he's deaf) who is an expert in lip reading has created a computer program that can read lips--even at an angle--and produce both voice and text for what the lips show. And it works amazingly.

If that kind of technology could be adapted to such glasses, imagine putting on glasses to use in public and understand what people were saying with ease--and perhaps being able to reply via some high-tech watch on one's wrist that would interpret signs as they're being made and give voice to them for hearing people who couldn't sign?

I don't think such technology is impossible someday.

i agree with your statement.

no advancement techology is impossible.
even flying cars is possible to invent someday. just that you or the scienceist, engenieer, or etc.. have to work harder on it.. rather than give up.

however.. i don't like the idea of those glasses.. what if its bad for your eyes in the long run? and is it easy and very comfortable? thats something i don't know as they havn't noted that.

 

[Nesmuth]

I'm not comfortable with the glasses type of accommodations. You'll be getting nose grease from the last 10 users. But I still praise it as a stepping stone for maybe something better.

Richard

 

[Deaf258]

OMG! That's a nasty visual, Richard. 10x the greasiness, that's a petri dish for growing mass pimples on the nose. *shudder*

And 3 hours of battery life?? Forget it. Many hot movies are that long, a few even longer! How would the movie management keep them recharged for immediate use on the same day??