Interactive cinema tries to give an audience an active role in the showing of movies.
Another newer[when?] definition of interactive cinema is a video game which is a hybrid between participation and viewing, giving the player – or viewer, as it were – a strong amount of control in the characters' decisions.[citation needed] It is compared to interactive film.
This form of media recently has become more relevant. Companies like Netflix have even began coming out with releases that have this different way of consumption.