Written by Kurt Scherf, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Parks Associates
Great demo from Jose Pinero last evening, demonstrating how Kinect will play a key role in not only interactive gaming, but also TV services. Working with Sky today, the Kinect provides full natural human interaction with programming - including fast-forward, rewind, and search. Jose discussed how Bing searches will be enabled via voice commands, and showed how the future of social networking with TV programs will be enabled using Kinect avatars. This is an issue that came up yesterday in our workshop - how elements such as social recommendations will be built not only into the program guide, but become a more immersive experience in engaging audiences to discover and try new programming. What do you think is the optimal level of social interactivity with television?
