Why Microsoft’s Kinect Is Going To Make A Big Splash

Microsoft Xbox Kinect Kids Driving

I’m in the business of identifying when there’s a change in the wind coming that will push us in a new direction. On balance, I’ve been successful. So much so, that when something I staked my career on becomes commonplace, people are so used to it that they look back and think I was only pointing out the obvious. Like when the most senior faculty member in the advertising department at Syracuse University rejected the “Interactive Advertising” course I proposed to teach in 1996 because online advertising was “just a fad.” I took a stand and got to teach the class, over his objections. Fast forward to today and online advertising is so obvious that predicting it is a thankless task.

I say this because I am about to take a stand I want you to remember. Ready? Starting Nov. 4th, Kinect for Xbox 360 will usher us into a new era Forrester has entitled the Era of Experience. This is an era in which we will revolutionize the digital home and everything that goes along with it. It starts by completely altering the way people consume home media that were only linear and nonparticipatory before now because there was no other way to engage them otherwise. But once there

This article originally appeared in Forrester Research.

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