Team DynacTiV

Team DynacTiV is an ETC project in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation, which aims to explore new more interactive experiences for viewers of traditional linear media (TV). Interactive television has been experimented with for decades, tracing back as early as 1953 Methods for making this traditionally passive experience more interactive have been incredibly diverse, including viewer controlled plots, extra information to augment the broadcast, allowing control of camera angles and much more. Despite limitations such as high production costs, genre exclusivity, and highly variable success ratings, experiments with interactive television continue to persist in modern media. Now, with Microsoft’s Kinect, a unique input device exclusive to the Xbox 360 video game console, there are opportunities to take interactive television to where it has never gone before. Advanced body position and motion tracking, facial and voice recognition, and intuitive gesture recognition are just a few of the features Team DynacTiV hopes to utilize in revolutionizing interactive television.