Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits of AI-enabled technology
I went into the article so you didn´t have to:
The glasses can help viewers with bespoke subtitles, for example, providing support for people with visual impairment or hearing loss.
I mean, anyone with money to shell out for pervert glasses is going to have better options to address visual impairment and hearing loss, but subtitles are kind of an interesting and valid use case.
How do you read them? On the screen? I’d find that annoying.
I was looking to see how that transcription feature worked, but since tech journalism is mostly marketing, I couldn´t find it discussed, but I’m guessing it kind of sucks, between latency, errors, and constant retroactive updates to the conversation.
Ideally the theater would be broadcasting the subtitles synced to the movie, because good subtitles are edited for space and timing, so a real-time AI transcription is always going to be a worse experience even if it is technically perfect.
I’ve also been thinking what a tremendous WASTE it is to have individual users transcribing media audio, when it could be easily provided at the source by the creator who does it exactly ONCE.
I went into the article so you didn´t have to:
I mean, anyone with money to shell out for pervert glasses is going to have better options to address visual impairment and hearing loss, but subtitles are kind of an interesting and valid use case.
Around here, cinemas provide official captions. No need to have an AI screw it up by mangling names or misattributing dialogue.
How do you read them? On the screen? I’d find that annoying.
I was looking to see how that transcription feature worked, but since tech journalism is mostly marketing, I couldn´t find it discussed, but I’m guessing it kind of sucks, between latency, errors, and constant retroactive updates to the conversation.
Ideally the theater would be broadcasting the subtitles synced to the movie, because good subtitles are edited for space and timing, so a real-time AI transcription is always going to be a worse experience even if it is technically perfect.
I’ve also been thinking what a tremendous WASTE it is to have individual users transcribing media audio, when it could be easily provided at the source by the creator who does it exactly ONCE.
There’s a mirror on a stick that you set up at your seat. It reflects the captions on a screen at the back of the theater.
Oh, cool. Found this with some other options:
https://circletranslations.com/blog/what-closed-captioning-movie-theatres-how-it-works
So it seems there really is no good reason to bring these glasses in to the theater unless you’ve made them your only pair of prescription glasses.
You don’t need cameras to generate subtitles.
True, but the display is there to show the subtitles, and it’s much better than looking down at a phone and distracting other audience members.
you can have a smart glass without camera make subtitles
the display is much more expensive than the camera so if there is any utility in there being a camer there is no reason to not have it
oh lol. there’s a lot of reason. It’s called privacy. we shouldn’t stop there though, we need to get “laws” on that list too.