In the previous slideshow howto article, the process
of bringing a powerpoint slideshow to a realXtend virtual world was explained. The
process was, although technically sound in many ways, also a bit
cumbersome.
There is an easier way, especially if your slides are
not top secret.
In the picture above you can see the result. I am taking
advantage of the webscreen I presented
in an earlier article - Browse
the web together in realXtend.
The process is simple. Upload the slides
tohttp://www.slideshare.net
on your account. You get a URL for every
slideshow. To protect your slides from public
viewing, it is possible to define slideshows private, and you can
get a URL for them too.
Now use that URL with the webscreen or as a texture
MediaURL to show the first slide of the presentation
inside a realXtend world. Now there is one problem to overcome -
there is a lot of stuff that does not belong to the slide, just
like with Youtube videos (check also previous articleWatch
YouTube videos from realXtend). Now it is time
to use slide offset and repeat -properties to show
only the slide portion of the web page. Take a look
at this picture to see the exact settings you need to do. As a
sidenote, this works with Youtube as well.
To change the slide, you need to append slash + slide
number at the end of the URL. Look at the first
screenshot to see an example. This can be done using the webscreen,
or simply manually changing the MediaURL.
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