Sunday 28 August 2011

Subtitling Glasses for the Hearing Impaired Show Captions Directly to Your Eyes

There are a lot of people out there dealing with some degree of hearing disability--one in six, by some estimates--and that audience is typically underserved when it comes to cinematic experience.

Some films are screened with subtitles, but often at odd times. But Sony is working up a fix in its UK lab: a pair of glasses that places subtitles right in the users field of view.

Source:
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-08/sonys-subtitling-glasses-hearing-impaired-project-film-dialogue-directly-set-specs

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