closed captioning for the hearing impaired

An “audio radar” hardware device could theoretically bring positional audio and distance cues to both deaf gamers and people who just play games with the sound off. Maybe someone should crowdfund it??

Dec 23, 2019

Design, Games, UI / UX

audio radar, captions, closed captioning, closed captioning for the hearing impaired, closed captions, deaf, RADAR, subtitles, zombie, zombie hallway

Background: Closed captioning (e.g. [Wind howling] or [Ominous footsteps] in a movie) supplements traditional subtitles with information beyond just dialogue. For a movie, this information is usually sufficient: a viewer doesn’t usually need to know exactly how loud the wind was howling, or which direction the footsteps are coming from. The issue: Unfortunately, in video…