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Nothing will be the same again - BBC's Visual Perceptive Media project will end the shared story experience

"Time is over for shared experiences when watching TV. Based on the answers you give in an app, your listening history, gender, age, or location and time of the day, this video will adjust the story based on your personality taking your mood into account. Two people won't be watching a story unfolding in the same way again and even you might experience a different narrative at another time."

"The move towards end-to-end IP between media producers and audiences will make new broadcasting systems vastly more agnostic to data formats and to diverse sets of consumption and production devices. In this world, object-based media becomes increasingly important; delivering efficiencies in the production chain, enabling the creation of new experiences that will continue to engage the audience and giving us the ability to adapt our media to new platforms, services and devices."

"Content will always matter, so as the culture"

"Time is over for shared experiences when watching TV. Based on the answers you give in an app, this video will adjust the story based on your personality and even your mood. Two people won't be watching the same again. "

S3A is a major new five-year UK research collaboration between internationally leading experts in 3D audio and visual processing, the BBC and UK industry. The partnership aims to unlock the creative potential of 3D sound to provide immersive experiences to the general public at home or on the move. S3A will pioneer a radical new listener centred approach to 3D sound production that can dynamically adapt to the listeners' environment and location to create a sense of immersion. Current 3D sound systems rely upon fixed loudspeaker arrangements and acoustically treated rooms that are not practical for home use. S3A will change the way audio is produced and delivered to enable practical high-quality 3D sound reproduction based on listener perception.

A new world is coming. It's scary. Freaky. Over the freaky line, if you will. But it is coming. Investors like Ron Conway and Marc Andreessen are investing in it. Companies from Google to startups you've never heard of, like Wovyn or Highlight, are building it. With more than a couple of new ones already on the way that you'll hear about over the next six months.

@interchangeling: Remember when Intel turned your life into a museum exhibition using Facebook data? You will, with #PerceptiveMedia http://t.co/6EoOcBCy http://twitter.com/interchangeling/status/167428765067116544

Recent Royal College of Art (RCA) design graduate David Hedberg's Smile TV is more than a loving homage to the good old 'campfire inside the living room.' Made from an open frame CRT monitor and equipped with a computer vision system, the unsuspecting television set turns the medium's engagement pattern on its head: instead of making you smile at on-screen silliness, you have to "smile to watch." Only when you do - and for as long as you do - will Smile TV reveal its otherwise scrambled broadcast. "This project grew out from experimenting with facial recognition and image manipulation," Hedberg explains over email.

Apple Patent which targets people based on swiping mood... Oooeer

"A bus stop poster which evolved over time depending on how people responded to it has recently been tested in London. It is part of a wider area of research into how our emotional responses and biometric data could teach advertisers how to target people according to their mood."

"Amazon's new system will cut the royalties for self-published authors who fail to hold a reader's attention until the final page "

"Not scared enough of this thing? The game will know, and turn up the terror."

"A library any developer can use to put a video stream and get a playable url for it, while it gets ingested, stored, transcoded and distributed behind the scenes, all through non-centralised means. With this, one can easily build out-of-the box decentralisable video-powered web applications. Paratii.JS has early functionalities for handling tokens too, meaning one will soon be able to use it to set monetisation models for videos, collect earnings, participate in curation, and else."

"Real-time Content Analysis and Processing (ReCAP) is a project co-funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme. ReCAP will bring to market a range of automatic content analysis services to form an affordable, scalable and flexible platform designed to enhance metadata-driven media workflows and realise the value of historical content archives."

Steven Soderbergh and HBO present Mosaic: A new storytelling experience that lets you choose your own path. Download the free app now. The six-part limited series will air on HBO in January 2018.

"ITV, the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster, today announced a new partnership with Sorenson Media, a leader in addressable advertising solutions for linear television. ITV will use Sorenson Media's unique technology to execute addressable advertising campaigns across ITV's range of linear broadcast channels starting early next year."

To celebrate its fifth birthday, Philips is extending the compatibility of its smart lights to sync with media

"Steven Soderbergh's latest project-an interactive smartphone app called Mosaic-required covering most of the walls in a Chelsea loft with color-coded cards and notes. The app contains a 7-plus-hour miniseries about a mysterious death, but because viewers have some agency over what order they watch it in and which characters' stories they follow, each scene-and the point at which it should be introduced-had to be meticulously planned so that no detail was revealed too late or too soon. "