Chapter 19

Visiting the Future Today

In This Chapter

arrow Entering the fourth dimension

arrow Controlling the show with your hands

arrow Meeting remotely

arrow Presenting without being present

Innovative presentations combine imaginative approaches and ideas to communicate with your audience along with creative application of the latest technological developments. We present our take on preparing for and approaching the audience in the earlier chapters of this book. In Chapters 17 and 18 we discuss software and hardware, respectively. In this chapter, we introduce you to some technological advancements that you may not be familiar with or may know about but hadn’t thought about how to dynamically apply to your presentations.

First we discuss three hot technology topics: augmented reality, gesture control, and 3-D printing. We explain how they work, give you some examples of incorporating them in presentations, and then point you in the direction of apps or creative types that can help you create them for your own presentations. Then we talk about virtual presentations, given through videoconferencing ...

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