Frankly, ban them full stop. I haven't consented for any part of my appearance being captured on them, just as many others haven't. Consent is explicit, not implicit.

One of my former classmates got locked up for trying it on with an underage girl in a cinema. I'm not saying Showcase is a hive of villainy, but for sure it's exactly the sort of place where you need to be particularly vigilant against predators.

One could set down the glasses

I read "privacy fears" which would make sense but since this is about big media companies, of course it's piracy fears.

Fuck privacy, who govrs a fuck about that?

Until I read your comment I also thought it said privacy lmao, of course that was too hopeful

Backrooms had a lot of zoomers having "babbys first steps at camripping" moments

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.

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.

dear highly upheld UK Courts, you must have misspelt "privacy".

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

The version of Brand New Day I saw was a cam rip. Person walked across the screen halfway through

Considering some of the bootleg movies I’ve seen in my time, the quality couldn’t be any worse than what they were doing before.

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.

Now they care :/

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.

They're getting worse at times, not even joking. Looking like they were recorded on a flip phone

Well yeah profit is at stake