One year ago my friend Ray and I said, “Hey, why not adapt Sesame Street into an interactive Kinect TV show?” He and I wrote a proposal and it happened. This is why I’m working for Microsoft: because sometimes the shortest distance between a big idea and a shipping product is an enormous corporation willing to bankroll creative people.

Microsoft's Sesame Street team-up

Interactive episodes of Sesame Street are being developed by its creators in conjunction with Microsoft.