He is opening an interactive music museum, the Experience Music Project, in Seattle on 23 June.
Set it near a speaker or plug it into headphones jacks, and the I-Dog Interactive Music Companion will move--and groove--to any song it hears.
He attends E3 in Los Angeles every year, usually to help promote games like Yoostar on MTV, which put players inside interactive music videos back in 2011.
"It was a lot more fun to me to be making cool interactive music apps than struggling with the music industry which was sort of in recession, " Dolby tells me.
On the horizon are CES, which continues to reign supreme for consumer tech and electronics buffs, and South By Southwest (SXSW), which does the same for interactive, music and film aficionados.
Most recently, high-profile Canadian indie rockers The Arcade Fire have teamed up with Google Chrome to produce "The Wilderness Downtown, " an interactive Web-produced music video.
Warner is also hoping to boost physical sales with its new "Music Video Interactive, " or MVI, format, which will sell albums on DVDs that include bonus content not available on a traditional CD.
The updated app gives tablet fans new streams of activity to explore what songs people are tagging and, in the US, what TV shows people are currently watching, as well as a fascinating new interactive mapping feature enabling music fans to explore what people are discovering in any city around the world.
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Users can opt to include the Microsoft Vista Media Center for easy recording of TV programs and interactive navigation between videos, music and TV programs.
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That tradition continues with UE BOOM and interactive programs such as The Social Music Experiment.
Started in 1987 as a local music show, SXSW has grown into an amazing conglomeration of music, film and interactive shows alongside conferences that run the gamut from gaming to design to TED-like talks.
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Killer Crossover When I first started going to SXSW, you could always sense a big change midweek when SXSW Interactive would give way to SXSW Music: The digital geeks with their glasses and BlackBerries would make way for the music geeks with their glasses and cigarettes.
But when my plane from New York landed in Austin, Texas for South By Southwest, the music, film, and interactive conference, I was excited.
These future networks handle data far better than today's mobile networks and make it possible to offer customers all manner of exotic services that give them access to music tracks, video clips and interactive web tools.
Does the event need the rush and volume of creative hackers, free thinkers, and open web advocates that drove Interactive from a little sideshow of Film and Music to becoming the tent-pole tech event of year?
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Signal to Noise (January 15), a late-night art party, organized by Assistant Curator of Digital Media Jason Eppink, in which artists, hackers, musicians, and filmmakers activate every area of the Museum with live electronic music, moving image performances, and interactive art.
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The programme has been created not only to encourage more sign-ups to Deezer, but also to generate a more interactive and fluid experience, where fans enjoying a music or gaming app can find themselves discovering Deezer's 20 million song catalogue in just a few clicks.
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In addition to having access to Cox's vast VOD library and Advanced TV content, subscribers using a TiVo Premiere box will also be able to enjoy TiVo's entire suite of advanced features including access to near infinite broadband content including movies and music, remote scheduling, multi-room viewing, interactive applications and TiVoToGo functionality.
"In truth, it's a museum that celebrates the history of recorded music and does so in a cutting-edge, highly interactive manner, " Frommer said.
The 7-inch device is ideal for reading and exploring a variety of great content including books, magazines, interactive children's books, apps, access to top video and music services, e-mail and Web browsing.
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Acts change weekly, but standard installations include karaoke, dance tournaments, a silent disco (a room where participants wear headphones to connect through music), and a walking Muttaburrasaurus named Winnysaur, the interactive dinosaur who steals hearts in the atrium.
In January of this year, under her new brand, Boynton Moo Media, Boynton and Ford entered into partnership with Loud Crow (loudcrow.com) to jointly create interactive digital versions of her well-known books and award-winning music, and also to eventually produce entirely new Boynton content.
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Originally a museum dedicated to Seattle native Jimi Hendrix, the Experience Music Project now has all kinds of rock memorabilia and loads of interactive exhibitions.
The five days of the interactive festival, which coincides with movie week and comes a week before the festival's trademark music showcase, attracts many of the biggest names and brightest minds in startups.
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