I love giving presentations and I love listening to presentations given by intelligent, motivated people. However, regardless if I am giving the presentation or listening to it, I always dread the first five minutes. The problem in those first five minutes (which can sometimes stretch to ten, fifteen…) is that it seems like, no matter how smart or motivated you may be, nobody knows how to properly use projector technology. There are always issues. The slides are upside down, the cable is missing, the cable is too short so you have to stand almost on top of the projector, the quality is too poor to read the text, the colors are messed up, there is a lag, or worst of all, it just is not working. And that’s all before we even get into device compatibility.
Wouldn’t it be nice if giving presentations worked out like it does in your mind? You roam freely and wirelessly around the room or across the stage, giving a presentation from your tablet. You show a few slides, a short movie, then tab over to an application and demo it, tab over to a spreadsheet of data, then over to a browser to underline a point with an example from the Internet. Everything is mirrored to the screen in full HD, with no lag or delays and no loss of fidelity.
And then, your partner takes over and suddenly, it is his laptop that is mirrored on the screen and he launches into his part of the presentation while you return to your seat. No plugging in and out, no fumbling around machines. No delays or false starts. No troubleshooting. This is how presentations should go. This is what WHDI technology makes possible. Intelligent wireless technology in intuitive; we know how this perfect presentation would look, we know how we want our presentation to go. Now let’s get rid of the sloppy presentation technology once and for all.
