Computer Vision component for the next wave of TV

Youtube exec, Salar Kamangar, says we are heading for the third wave of TV in which television will look a little like video games. The first wave refers to broadcast networks (few options, huge audiences), and the second to cable channels (hundreds of options, each with smaller audiences). In the third wave, smaller groups of people gravitate toward thousands of niche channels, Kamangar said. Mark Milian reports in a CNN blog that

Sports provides some particularly interesting scenarios for exploiting third-wave technologies. During a football game, viewers could choose which helmet camera they want to watch from, Kamangar said. Friends could sit their avatars next to each other in the stadium, he said. They even could vote, along with everyone else in the virtual stadium, on which play the quarterback should run, he added.

TV programs should have "gamification" components, meaning viewers will be rewarded for participating like in a video game, Kamangar said. Shows should be shaped by feedback from viewers left as comments, he said.

However, while we are lying on our couch enjoying our favorite TV program, leaving comments is not as comfortable as it should be. I think with new Human Computer Interaction techniques and with new hardware such as Kinect, people do not even need to interact with their TV through a keyboard or some other non ergonomic devices. Here is where I believe computer vision could play a crucial role. I think that Kamangar perhaps forgot to say the "third wave" of TV will have a computer vision component, or maybe that would be the "fourth wave".

Do you think the next wave of TV will have a computer vision component? If yes, how?. Please comment below.