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Cities Prepare to Permit 307-Inch Screens Nobody Else Can See
RayNeo’s GT Max glasses have turned private viewing into a zoning problem, with officials preparing permits for auditoriums that exist only in their wearers’ fields of view.
The first applications reached municipal cinema offices after users reported 307-inch screens opening across their apartments, airplane rows and checkout lines. The forms ask applicants to mark the screen’s width, viewing distance and emergency aisle, though inspectors can currently verify only the person sitting very still and looking at nothing.
RayNeo has said the display remains personal. That distinction has not stopped residents from moving sofas away from blank walls, nor has it stopped neighbors from objecting when a viewer’s invisible front row extends through the shared hallway.
Seat reservations enter the permitting process
Officials in several municipalities are drafting an Invisible Auditorium Permit that would let a wearer reserve a volume of public space without claiming ownership of the screen inside it. A proposed diagram shows numbered seats floating over a grocery queue, with arrows instructing non-viewers to walk around patrons who appear to be applauding an empty checkout display.
Airlines are preparing their own rules after passengers began requesting aisle seats for the view of films projected beyond their tray tables. One carrier has reserved the first three rows of several aircraft for customers who promise not to lean into another passenger’s invisible auditorium, while a supermarket has placed a folding chair beside its receipt printer for a customer whose screen is reportedly wider than the building.
The permits may arrive before the infrastructure does. Until then, inspectors are advising residents to leave a clear path around any person wearing the glasses, especially when that person reaches forward to adjust a screen no one else can see.
The original pitch
RayNeo’s new GT Max glasses triggered an emergency expansion of municipal cinema infrastructure after users began reporting 307-inch screens appearing in apartments, airplanes, and checkout lines. The company said the display remains personal, while local officials prepared permits for invisible auditoriums and asked residents to stop reserving seats in other people’s fields of view.
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