Tech Thursday: Wii Whiteboard meets Cooliris

Today we played around with the concept of the Wii Whiteboard. Johnny Chung Lee who is a genius was the first person that I heard of that was doing the Wii Whiteboard. The idea is to have an interactive Whiteboard that can be projected on any wall or surface. Here is his video explanation.



I told you that the guy was a genius and this application of 2 Wii remotes is incredible.

Chris Welsh decided that he wanted to experiment with this for an upcoming series that we have at our church. Chad Hovind our Senior Pastor wanted to be able to simulate something that would look like it came out of the Minority Report. After playing around with the Wii Whiteboard we got bored after about 15 minutes. It looked just like you were on a computer and that seemed kind of lame. We wanted cool. We then loaded Cooliris on the computer. Here is what it looked like when we loaded in a PowerPoint presentation from one of our recent services. All of the slides are .jpg's. Not only that but you also get to hear some of the brainstorming that is going on. Enjoy.




By the way, we already had the Wii remotes, a projector, and a computer. Chris had to make the pen which ended up costing less than $5.

I can't wait to use this for my presentations. Why do a boring slide by slide PowerPoint? Instead you can have an interactive leading presentation that gives the speaker more options and the audience more visuals. Now if I could figure out a way to play sound effects and background music at the same time with the pen in Cooliris then I would have an incredible piece of software for large group presentations.