pptPlex | The Coffeehouse

Niner

pptPlex: Check out this cool plug-in for PowerPoint 2007 from Office labs which will completely change how we do presentations with PowerPoint2007.
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx

You will have an idea if you had seen Bill Gates doing TouchWall demo at CEO Summit.

wisemx
Live it

Yup, very cool...I'm already using it for my Webcasts.
Also posted it in the Camtasia forums so others will try it. Big Smile

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One word (err... acronym): WPF.

It's all written in WPF (the options dialogs, the buttons for paging through embedded documents, etc.)-- they're even rendering the powerpoint slides in WPF (you can tell because of the distinct blur effect you get when you pan around a zoomed slide-- it's the same as what happens when you do a translation in WPF). That's how they're able to get such smooth scaling up to such a high resolution.

If they've got a PPT renderer in WPF, I wonder if that means the next version of Powerpoint might use WPF. It's definitely suited for it, with all the animation capabilities built-in.

Quite cool to see that there are Microsoft teams actually fully embracing it!

[edit] On further inspection (with Reflector), I think they may be rendering to XPS (using Office's built-in XPS converter) and displaying that. Whatever they're doing, it's pretty cool, though.

xgamer
Two Sides to Everything

pptPlex looks good... But it seems limited feature and limited support.

I have been using picLens ( http://www.cooliris.com/ ) for a while for helping our sales team with presentation. The effects are quite good. It supports PP 2003 and Keynote. Has IE/firefox plugins.

I think MS should make pptFlex full featured so that it can become competitive to products like picLens and will help in promoting products like touchwall.

Niner

In reply to xgamer

#Aug 15th, 2008 @ 11:08 PM

Yes, today only I came to know about Cooliris Plugin For PowerPoint from channel10, though I have been using its browser plugin since few days.
Let us hope pptPlex will further improve.