The Corn Exchange Newbury has become the latest theatre to install an Auracast system, which went in this month and is now offered alongside its existing induction loop system. Based in Berkshire, England, the 400-seat theatre is a popular venue for a wide range of touring shows. In the coming weeks, it is hosting comedians, musicians, family theatre, plays, and films....
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No actionable change for clinical practice; this is a real-world venue deployment of Auracast that audiologists may find useful as a talking point when counselling patients about Bluetooth assistive listening in public spaces.
Real-world Auracast venue installations help build the public infrastructure that makes Bluetooth LE Audio hearing accessibility meaningful for patients in everyday life.
- 01Corn Exchange Newbury (400-seat theatre, Berkshire, England) has installed an Auracast Bluetooth audio streaming system.
- 02The venue retains its existing induction (hearing) loop, so two assistive listening technologies now run in parallel.
- 03Auracast offers two separate audio streams, giving hearing-impaired audience members choice of audio feed.
- 04This is one of the early real-world Auracast deployments in a UK public entertainment venue.
- 05Compatible hearing aids and consumer Bluetooth devices can receive Auracast streams without additional receivers.
Corn Exchange Newbury has installed Auracast Bluetooth audio streaming alongside its existing induction loop.
press releasesupportedThe Auracast installation provides two separate audio streams for hearing-impaired audience members.
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