Actually, Movie theaters in Japan do have assigned seating. You purchase movie tickets while viewing a display of the theater with available seats indicated.
As you say, unless this is done worldwide, this technology won't do much good. I see more benefit in the technology that blinds CCDs thus making videotaping off the screen impossible.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Actually, Movie theaters in Japan do have assigned seating. You purchase movie tickets while viewing a display of the theater with available seats indicated.
As you say, unless this is done worldwide, this technology won't do much good. I see more benefit in the technology that blinds CCDs thus making videotaping off the screen impossible.