Future Possibilities

     The YouTube video above shows 5 ways that companies can use interactive video features to improve sales and marketing strategies. I believe that many of these same strategies would be helpful for educators to make videos more engaging for students, or for students to make video presentations more engaging for their audience. In the future, I hope to see educational tools that make these types of interative video features easily accessible for classroom and distance education use. 

The Forbes article above is an interview with Devo Harris, the CEO and founder of Adventr, a smart media platform. Harris talks about his company's latest softward, SmartListen, which "enables videos to actively listen and respond to human voices in real time." He believes that being able to converse with a video is the future of interactive video technology.