This week our partner Interactivation released a very cool “InteractiveXML” toolkit that lets you create videos where viewers interact with the video via voice, text or other channels.

I can’t really explain it… you really have to see it to understand how incredibly cool this is!

First, check out this video where you can call a phone number and interact with the guy in the video (and yes, this is using Voxeo’s network to power the phone interaction):

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It’s quite cleverly done. Also… after you’ve tried it out, reload the page and then ignore it for a while. It’s rather amusing what the character in the video does. :-)

Then you can test your 80’s music knowledge with this video that doesn’t use voice but instead has you press buttons or enter text to answer questions:

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And again, if you ignore the screen the character gets rather amusing.

Interactivation has released this new “InteractiveXML” language and service to let people create video applications like these. You can learn more about it at, predictably:

http://www.interactivexml.com/

It’s very cool to see and I’m looking forward to seeing what people may do with this new service. Congrats to the Interactivation team on their launch of InteractiveXML!

Originally from Voxeo Blogs