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I am a researcher at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) working in the Willow project at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford working with Prof. Andrew Zisserman. My thesis dealing with efficient visual search of images and videos was awarded the Sullivan Thesis Prize and was short-listed for the BCS Distinguished Dissertation award - the prize for the best Computer Science thesis in the UK. Before coming to France I spent six months as a post-doc in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, working with Prof. William Freeman.

Interactive video has a long way to go, but Netherlands based yellowBird and their 360 degree offering might help move it along. We, as a species, watch a lot of vids. Buckets full, really. And for the most part, we're comfortable pressing play and being spoon-fed the story. This, at least in part, explains the lukewarm reception - commercially speaking - of interactive films. Most of the 'interactivity' centers on controlling the story.

Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series. For more, visit adaptivepath.com/aurora

an animated short by benjamin stephan & lutz vogel