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Published November 04, 2015
It's official: If you want to see a movie while it's still in the theaters, you'll have to take off your Google Glass or smartwatch first. The MPAA and the National Association of Theatre Owners yesterday banned all wearable tech, meaning you'll need to turn such devices off and put them away if you don't want to get kicked out.
And—in a policy that already exists for phones and other recording devices—if theater staff thinks you're recording illegally, they'll notify police. The new zero-tolerance policy was approved during the ShowEast convention, where theater owners gather each year, according to the Hollywood Reporter; the Washington Post reports that the association represents about 32,000 US theaters.
But many individual theater owners had already instituted such a ban. Two potential problems:
One theatergoer has already been hauled from his seat by the feds because he was wearing Google Glass.
This article originally appeared on Newser: Google Glass Now Banned at Theaters
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