Comments on: Microsoft’s interactive presentations

By: Q&A with Christian Schmidt, Product Manager from Ventuz Technology - istartedsomething

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:15:01 +0000

[...] following in the last week, I’ve been totally awed by what Microsoft and Ventuz has done at CeBIT 2007 and the Vista Germany launch. Ventuz is of course a company in Dubai which delivers presentation [...]

By: Magnus

Magnus — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:16:57 +0000

Still, the prototype from Perceptive Pixel is far more fascinating in my opinion.

http://www.bassictech.com/blogs/bassictech_news_blog/archive/2007/01/2 0/remapping-the-universe-using-this-gui.aspx

By: Martien

Martien — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:52:13 +0000

Last year’s presentation at CeBIT already had this giant touch screen… nothing new here!

By: Ventuz @ Windows Vista Germany launch - istartedsomething

Ventuz @ Windows Vista Germany launch - istartedsomething — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:57:20 +0000

[...] presentations I’ve seen. Only yesterday I wrote about their interactive presentation at CeBIT 2007 but today I’ve found another Microsoft event in Germany that deserves to be [...]

By: ventuz

ventuz — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:56:38 +0000

Actually the big screen was interactive too. There were 16 light barriers mounted an conntected to Ventuz to ‘turn’ the wheel! Two Ventuz machines were interacting together using OSC (Open Sound Control). The presentation was controllable by the 50″ touch screen (Panasonic plasma) AND the back projected big screen using the light barriers. The complete show was controlled by the speakers them selfs. No fake! This idea was developed by our client Second Unit Services. They just used the available tool set of Ventuz to achieve that great show!

By: tom

tom — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:17:33 +0000

oh… now showing at a lecture theater near you: death by powerpoint – advanced.

just having interactivity doesn’t make for a better presentation. In other words this is simply a gimmick.

Do yourself a favor and read Edward Tufte’s “The Cognitive Style of Power Point” and you’ll know what I mean.

Powerpoint bad hmkay…

By: Michael Griffiths

Michael Griffiths — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:25:16 +0000

Ventuz is pretty cool, yes.

marlone: it’s not a PowerPoint. Far more advanced (and quite a bit harder to use).

By: marlone

marlone — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:29:24 +0000

Long, if you get a copy of the PPT of that, can you send it to me?

Marlone9@gmail.com

By: Rob Stevens

Rob Stevens — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:01:56 +0000

You know, I don’t think the big screen is interactive in any way. The side-screen is, but the big screen doesn’t appear to be. I think the entire thing is just very well rehearsed. The arc above the Office icon looks to be a progress meter as a visual indicator.

Why? Mainly because she is moving her arms around so much in close proximity to the screen that I’d think the system would have a hard time telling what she wanted to do.

There’s another issue with this as well. She’s obscuring a fair amount of the screen by standing directly in front of it, and that’s usually a bad thing.

By: Minority Report al CeBIT at Casperize

Minority Report al CeBIT at Casperize — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:26:56 +0000

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