Closed-caption devices at yer regular mall theater, a report.

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(I saw a Wrinkle in Time at Lloyd Center.) The device is eyeglasses with gadgets on the stems and a receiver attached by a cord. The gadgets project the captions onto the glasses.

Reading the captions wasn't great - kind of felt like fighting a magic eye puzzle - but it was also good enough that I kept them on through the film, even tho the glasses were uncomfortable and i'm a cryer-at-movies

To get the device, I had to wait in line for the box office (we prebought tickets) and fill out a paper form with name/address/phone/movie/showtime - there were several people signed up on the same form (so you don't get a picture) but only 1 for today

I did get the boyfriend to try them over his glasses before the movie started. (The device told us CC was on and what screen we were synced to.) It was tricky to get room between his glasses and the CC glasses to project the text on, but he was able to do it. For science, I should have tried again during the movie, but it's a big tangle of equipment and I was actually watching the movie.

This post was originally a twitter thread.