We’re hoping by now all of you have tried out the pptPlex prototype!  I was one of the developers for the pptPlex prototype, and I thought I’d share something cool I tried with pptPlex a few months ago.

It’s common to see presenters give their presentations on stage with a hand-held controller.  I have a Nintendo Wii at home and one day I realized that the Wii controller could make a great device for controlling Plex presentations, so I tried it out.

With the Wii controller you can flick your hand to go to the next and previous slide. You can point to the screen and navigate to any slide out of order.  If you reach a section and don’t want to go into its details you can use another motion to bypass that whole section.

Take a look at this video I put together to see how it can work. If you like to try this out yourself see this page for instructions on how to set it up. Enjoy!