Release The Captions - My ideas

When I began looking into this closed caption system and the problems inherent with it my original idea was to try and develop or find if you can take polarized glasses and wear them and display subtitles, or reveal subtitles on the movie screen or just below the movie screen. As great as this idea is, it turns out that it's not as easy to do that with light. As you can see in this little clip here, when you have polarization it removes light - it doesn't add light. And so you can't add subtitles to that, you can't have subtitles being displayed without removing some sort of light. And so even if you used the technology infrared to do it you would see the bottom half, you might see the subtitles, but you would see the bottom half of the screen all in red or it would be bright bright white. So, that's not really a good option. Another idea was to use your iPhone. Basically to develop an app that would allow the subtitles to be wirelessly received through the theaters own app. You would basically punch in or tap in 'I'm at this showing, Yeah, I want to view the closed captions' And you would have a little arm that would then connect to the phone and you could set it up for yourself. The problem with that is it still has the existing technology problems or focal problems that CaptiView has. It even has another problem inherent with that too which if you're putting it in front of you and somebody walks by they could bump the phone out of that little clip and then it would just fall and then you've got a damaged phone. So there's lots of little problems with it. Not just the focus part. As good of an idea it is, it's just not the best and it's something we've already kind of seen that we really want to try to improve upon. It's a good idea, but it's got some pretty glaring problems with it. A new thing that has crossed my mind with this whole closed caption problem is really actually Google Glass. The way Google Glass kind of works is you have that little transparent glass piece in front of your eye and there's a projector in the band of the glasses that then shoots through a prism that then bounces the light back in to your eye and it appears in focus. That is one of the huge problems inherent in these other technologies - is that focus problem. Where you have shift your focus from this thing that's a few feet in front of you to the movie screen which is like 20 feet in front of you. So that right there, Google has kind of toyed around and figured it out, and that's amazing. But the problem with Google Glass though is that it's got a camera built in as well. And also it's not really allowed in a lot of public places, because people get really unnerved when they see it and so as good as Google Glass is there's some problems there too. And so one thing that I think would be great would be if Google, and this is totally hypothetical and I'm just throwing this out there, but if Google wanted to make a separate pair of it that didn't have that camera and was simply paired to movie screens so that you could put them on, view the subtitles and then return them to the desk. As far the system of 'Well how do I get these things, wether or not you leave some money down for them or your driver's license down for them - that's a whole separate issue. But I think Google Glass is one of the best ideas or things to that could be introduced to this problem. And I would love to see where that could go.