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During our recent trip to the UK, the [itvt] editorial team shot a " Day in the Life of... " segment with Softel CEO, Sam Pemberton , at the company's headquarters in the Berkshire village of Pangbourne (near Reading). Softel offers a range of television products including solutions for interactive TV, opt cuing/ad insertion, subtitling and captioning.

Found this great interactive TV ivideo series using YouTube annotations technologies made by Canadians, which claims to be the first interactive tennis lesson on YouTube. Tried it out and it's kind of weird and amazing and fun, if you're into tennis. Pretty well done when you consider that the creators (tennis pros) had to think through all the interactive options to make this work. I really give them credit for doing this and not making...

I just couldn't resist. Beautifully done. Interactivity is at the end. It's about one of my favorite subjects: the Universe. Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking rap poetically to Glorious Dawn. -- Tracy Swedlow

CLICK LINK ABOVE FOR VIDEO: Found this. Perhaps we'll see video imagerly floating in mid-space someday. I think so. Seems pretty logical. Now that we're seeing the emergence of augmented reality, why wouldn't we see holoreality? Video shouldn't need a 2D surface, per se. It just needs particles in the air. And, once we have video floating in mid-air, it should be interactive because it will be using geo-space location technology, which can be televised...

This is a video of Ivan Sutherland demonstrating his light Sketchpad back in 1963. Ivan Sutherland, for those of you who don't know, is one of the fathers of the Virtual Reality movement (note: I have to say "movement," because that's all it was as the industry floundered to some extent - I know - I saw it) as well as being an all around computer innovator in every way. This technology he displays is...