We all know the pain: you go to a meeting and want to connect your laptop to a projector for your show. it never works. period
Years of R&D and top techie advancements have not managed to solve the simple problem of getting a slide on a screen in 2 seconds. In years of watching thousands of presentations i have never seen a case this works spot on. There is always one problem: the screen resolution is not right, the image looks poor, the screen shows only part of your slide.....
The reason is that projector are dumb devices with very poor software and laptops are built with poor and complex set up to make things smooth.
I believe there is a major opportunity for a software that will solve this pain. A software that will make any laptop 100% ready for any projector. And people will pay for it. 100%
We need an equivalent of Skype, which solved the pain of making a simple voice calls on the internet, but for slide presentations.
Let s call it Prezentify
My dream experience
- You open your laptop
- your launch this Prezentify
- you plug your laptop to the projector
- And it works, instantly.
No more need to choose the right screen resolution, plug, unplug, until it works, make your laptop restart, make your projector restart.
What would that software do?
- it detects automatically you screen resolution/laptop settings
- It detects the projector hardware connected to it and find the right settings to make it work
- It resets your screen and color set automatically for optimal screening
- it will reset it back when the presentation is done
- It will allow you to show part of the things that are one your computer, but not everything (you don't want to share those email notifications, or skype messages)
- it comes with a handy iPhone app so you can move the slide (keynote has an amazing iphone app for mac)
And of course this is not just an add on to slideshow softwares...Because you need to present more stuff than just slides.
Someone please make this
Oh yes and 1 more request to Microsoft/Mac. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Make that "Show as a slideshow" button ENORMOUS. People always spend seconds to look for it, because it is way to small
PS: plan B is to not use your computer but just put the file on a local connected computer. but then you can't use other resources from your computer (demo an app, settings you are used to for your browser,...). I don t like this option