Friday, April 27, 2012

A new way for those with hard of hearing and vision loss to view movies

Now when I first saw this article on the hard copy version of the Fresno Bee I was thinking that it was dealing with some kind of new 3-D wear for maybe a television or movie theater, something that I could be able to slip over my glasses and be able to watch a 3-D movie with out having to try to put those Real 3-D over my own glasses at all. However when I at last read the article, I didn't realize how wrong I was on the entire thing.
 
These glasses (as you can see by the pictures above, are for those that are hard of hearing (not selective hearing), and have trouble seeing. Plus the really cool thing is that it works for all of the movies that are in the theater there too. What the glasses do is provides subtitles for those that can't hear the movie too well, though in this case the only one that will be seeing the subtitling is the person wearing the glasses in the first place, no one else around them will be seeing anything and can enjoy the movie with out any problems at all.
 
The whole system works on a wi-fi set up which I honestly think is great, except for having to wear the pack that goes with it in order to be able to get the system to work right, plus there's the limited number of glasses that are available in order to watch a movie that you would like to see. This is only because of the cost in making them, and the fact that they happen to be so limited on how many theaters actually have them in the first place. After all they might either be in use or recharging (yeah they've got to be recharged in order to be able to pick up the signal for the text to be seen on the lenses), which will limit how many are available at any given time.
 
Personally I happen to think that this is a great idea and opens up more movies (like next Friday's Avengers) for those that were limited before, plus they can also be adapted for 3-D and IMAX as well (or at least from what it said in the article). Though personally for me I would love to be able to see them make a set of Real 3-D lenses that are clip ons so that I don't have to try to fix big Real 3-D glasses over my own which can be a real big pain in the ass (had to put on the paper ones with the old red and blue lenses and I had to take them off every 15 minutes and it totally sucked). If they made clip on ones then I could just put those on my glasses like I do for my shades, however since I know that they're not going to do that any time soon (though I will be looking for the company that does the Real 3-D and suggest it to them in the first place), I just have to live with putting the Real 3-D glasses over my own glasses.

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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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