Sony’s subtitle-showing specs are great — if you wear contacts and hate 3-D. Stills captured from BBC video
Sony has an experimental pair of spectacles that will allow cinemagoers to see on-screen subtitles, even when none are being projected. The specs are for use primarily by the deaf and hard-of-hearing, and use LEDs to provide a heads-up display, superimposed over the movie. The words appear to the eye to be the same distance away as the movie screen, just like any other HUD.
The advantages are many. Not only can the hearing-impaired get subs on every movie, these specs could also be deployed to show different foreign-language subtitles to different viewers.
But the subtitles, as you can see in the BBCs video news spot, move. Unlike regular subtitles which always sit at the bottom of the screen, these follow the movement of the head. Get used to it though, and this could become a feature, eliminating the need to keep glancing down.
Of more concern is the never-ending pile of glasses we now need to watch a movie. If you have four eyes like me, 3-D movies already are out. Add these on top and you’ll have an unmanageable stack of lenses balanced on your nose.
Cinema subtitle glasses give promise to deaf film fans [The Beeb]
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