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Home » The Sunday Paper » Death to PowerPoint

Death to PowerPoint

Heres some Sunday viewing for you

Imagine youre at another Pentagon briefing and the program manager throws up one of those death-by-PowerPoint presentations — an eye chart that taxes your patience and makes your lids droop.

Now imagine if the presenter used this technology to spice up the briefing

A lot more exciting, huh?

Lets hope this vectors into the mainstream more quickly than your average Pentagon program. Maybe since its coming from private industry, it will.

Read the San Francisco Chronicle entry here .

(Gouge:CM ).

(Check out DT’s earlier coverage on this tech here.)

– Christian

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  1. Cynu says:
    March 11, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    Dupe! :)
    http://​www​.defensetech​.org/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​s​/​0​0​3​1​9​9​.​h​tml

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  2. BT says:
    March 11, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    That might just be the coolest thing I’ve seen. Mr. Softy can KMA. I bet this display requires a ton of CPU/GPU power and RAM. Maybe a Quadcore/SLI PC is not enough after all, sweet.

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  3. Roger Tipton says:
    March 11, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    Just fine. More junk to distract from the subject of the presentation. Baffle them with BS comes to mind!
    Folks that push this are usually trying to baffle the audience so they don’t realize the presenter don’t know squat. Liberal Arts type just love it.

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  4. Glenn says:
    March 11, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    Anyone who has had training in presentations could tell you in a second that this is a bad idea. Your back is to the audience for God’s sake! Rule #1 of presentations, never turn your back. Maybe if there was a way to do it turned around.

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  5. David says:
    March 11, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    Perhaps an assistant could be responsible for working the presentation board thing whilst the other spoke with his back not turned to the crowd.

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  6. Dr. Curiosity says:
    March 11, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    This kind of technology isn’t really appropriate for replacing PowerPoint-style presentations. In fact, when Jeff Han was making a presentation at TED, the display was copied onto a large overhead projector so that people could see what he was doing, rather than just letting people look over his shoulder.
    The strength of this kind of tech is that it allows people to visualise and interact with large amounts of data fluidly — that someone behind you can also get a look at what you’re doing is useful (especially for peripheral awareness in a design or command-and-control space), but as a presenter you’d be blocking far too much of the surface with your interaction.
    When it comes to taking in information using this kind of interface, it’s far more appropriate for “learning by doing” interactive tasks than presentations. If you want to present well, you need to step back from the interface, or have it copied into another space where you won’t be getting in the way.
    [Note: I recently finished an MSc thesis entitled “Large-Scale Display Interaction Techniques to Support Face-to-Face Collaboration”. I wouldn’t call myself an _expert_ in the field just yet, but hopefully the insights are useful all the same.]

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  7. Dave says:
    March 11, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    This is actually exactly the same, in principle, as what’s used in the Apple iPhone’s interface, the multitouch display. So it may make it into the mainstream much faster than you’d think. Like, say, June.

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  8. Aron Levy says:
    March 11, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    Reminds me of this:
    http://​www​.newyorker​.com/​h​u​m​o​r​/​c​a​r​t​o​o​n​s​/​d​a​i​l​y​/​v​i​d​e​o​s​/​2​0​0​7​/​0​3​/​1​2​/​0​7​0​3​1​2​_​s​o​f​t​w​a​r​e​d​e​vil

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  9. Peter says:
    March 12, 2007 at 12:57 am

    Maybe its a good Idea, but without the new age music. I hear that and in a couple of minutes I am snoozing.

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  10. Roboto says:
    March 12, 2007 at 10:43 am

    It may be a more appropriate system for battle management than presentations, I can even see potential for home media centers in this.
    Would be awesome for a computer game also, “global thermonuclear war” comes to mind :P hehe

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  11. Kevin says:
    March 12, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    I’m less interested in how this technology will make my managers more interesting to watch, and more interested in how effectively I can use this to better utilize my CAD software.

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  12. ueueu says:
    March 12, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    Less is more-imagine 30 minutes of this, hell, 5 minutes is enough to make me tune out.
    Besides, the presenter is so preoccupied with his material that he’ll completely ignore the audience.

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  13. Chris says:
    March 12, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    What so ‘complicating’ and ‘baffling’ about a touch screen? You touch and move things. Oh the complexity! I only wonder what these people thought of the mouse when it came out.
    Anyway, I don’t think touch screen would be the best for presentations. Standing in front of a screen does things, like blocking viewers from seeing anything… I agree with Dr. Curiosity’s post.
    PS — And what’s so complicating about Power Point, egadams? You just type things on the a slide and insert a picture. Considering that’s what everybody uses and nothing else, it’s pretty simple.

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  14. Zorak says:
    March 12, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    Why are we still calling this a “Man” machine interface? What century is this? It’s “Human” machine interface! And stay tuned for biological-machine interfaces.

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  15. great says:
    March 12, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    this a great begining …I can see some people don’t undersatnd the potential of this technology ..this will be great for airport the army any govermental offices that has to manage alot of information …the regular joe maybe only be able to use 1/5 of the technology for a practical usage…but this is really a great begining .…

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  16. Phred says:
    March 13, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    It might be useful to attend an Edward Tufte’ Presenting Data and Information course and consider the cognitive style of PowerPoint. I may not agree with everything he has to say but I’ve seen enough PowerPoint and now Keynote to know that there is a problem. Some of the discussion threads on Dr. Tufte’s site are also illuminating.

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  17. radu says:
    March 13, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    people, please!
    stop babbling about powerpoint…
    this thing can be do and will a ‘tad’ more…
    imagine how virtual surgery could be improved, cad, painting, virtual reality (games) interaction etc..

    Reply
  18. rickgainey says:
    March 15, 2007 at 7:01 am

    This is great emerging technology.…in terms of presentations, let’s not forget the all-important “eye contact” factor necessary to convey the message. I see even greater applicability in operating interfaces for control process management.…

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  19. Christopher Campbell says:
    March 17, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    Jeff Han has been demonstrating this technology for some time now. I have seen earlier versions of this movie, where Han was using the screen to work in Apple’s Aperture program.
    I am not convinced it is good for presentations because the speaker has no eye contact and the manipulator is distracting. It could be used to develop a movie for presentations, though, and it could be good if care is taken to make sure it is not overdone.
    The interface is probably much more valuable to digital artists and designers, and it probably has a future in computer games.

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