ProtoSphere Standard Edition Feature Peek: Add YouTube and other Web-hosted videos to Presentation Boards

A few weeks ago, I showed you an upcoming ProtoSphere Standard Edition feature that will let you upload and play videos on Presentation Boards.

In addition to uploading video files from your computer, you'll also be able to bring videos into ProtoSphere via a URL path, such as from YouTube. This gives you greater flexibility in what Flash content you can use in ProtoSphere, and how you can bring it in.

ProtoSphere Standard Edition Feature Peek: Add Flash content for interactive learning

The other week I showed you a new feature we're adding to ProtoSphere Standard Edition that will let you upload and play back Flash videos on Presentation Boards. But that's not all you'll be able to do with Flash in ProtoSphere.

You'll also be able to display any Flash-based content on ProtoSphere's Presentation Boards, such as courseware materials or other interactive learning modules.

ProtoSphere Standard Edition Feature Peek: Video playback on Presentation Boards for team knowledge sharing

In the current version of ProtoSphere, Flash video clips display in a child Web window. We're working on adding a new feature to an upcoming version of ProtoSphere Standard Edition that will let you upload and play back videos directly on Presentation Boards in your environment.

Six new ways to boost productivity and tighten compliance

We released a new version of ProtoSphere today, updated with six new features for improving productivity and supporting compliance training. Grab the new ProtoSphere 1.5.2 demo and give it a spin.

Here's a wrap-up of what's new in ProtoSphere.

• ProtoSphere streaming portable app version lets you quickly download and launch ProtoSphere from a browser plug-in and begin working within minutes. No installation and admin rights needed.

• The laser pointer enables you to direct users' attention to content and objects.

• Drawing tools let you easily put annotations directly on Presentation Boards.

• Fifteen newly designed zones support the range of meetings, conferences, and events your company holds with better content visibility and ability to quickly see who's in your meeting at a glance.

• Updated moderator controls for Presentation Boards, including the ability to lock out users from interacting with surfaces during a meeting.

• Integration with Kaplan EduNeering's ComplianceWire learning management system lets you launch compliance training sessions in ProtoSphere from ComplianceWire.

We've shown you some of these features already on our blog. The team and I are also working on putting together posts that take you through the other ones in more detail. More to come soon! In the meantime, feel free to explore ProtoSphere 1.5.2 and let us know what you think.

ProtoSphere 1.5.2 Feature Peek: Drawing tools for annotating content on Presentation Boards

You might say we went back to the drawing board to create this new feature coming in ProtoSphere 1.5.2. We're adding a set of drawing tools so you can annotate content on Presentation Boards. And by adding a blank side to your Presentation Board surface, you can create a white board for drawing flow charts or anything else you need to demonstrate. See it in action in the video I created here.

ProtoSphere 1.5 Feature Peek: Add Web links to Presentation Boards

Our developers have been busy working on new functionality for ProtoSphere 1.5. One feature that's just about ready is the new Web link function. Users will now have the ability to hyperlink content on Presentation Boards.

Up until now, this has been something our developers had to handle for our customers. For more on how the new Web link function works, watch the video I created below.

ProtoSphere 1.5 Feature Peek: Zoom function on Presentation Boards

We've been getting a lot of great feedback from those of you who've downloaded our ProtoSphere 1.4 demo build. One of the most commonly requested features we're hearing is to add a zoom function to the Presentation Boards capability. Here's some evidence we're listening your requests.

Our engineers are taking your suggestions and running with them. They're already working on developing a zoom functionality, and I put together a feature peek video to show you how they're coming along. Remember, this is just a feature peek, so what it ends up as could be much different from what you see here. If we update it, we'll let you know!

ProtoSphere 1.4 has left the building

LEARNING IN ACTION: A virtual poster session in ProtoSphere

It's official. We released the latest version of ProtoSphere today. I'm excited to get it in the hands of our customers, because we built this version based on what they told us they wanted most out of an enterprise virtual world. And now that our hard work has come to a pause, we're dying to know, well, how did we do???

I invite you to peruse the press release we issued this morning, which lists the seven major new features of ProtoSphere 1.4. You can also watch our video demo, and, if you're feeling bold, download our beta release to give ProtoSphere a test drive.

We also put together a press kit containing a medley of other information about ProtoSphere, including a Reviewer Guide, Product Profile, and more. Of course, if you have questions or just want to talk, drop me or our sales team a note, or give us a ring at 215-631-1401.

ProtoSphere 1.4 Feature Peek: Present to large audiences in the Presentation Auditorium

One of the most-requested new features we've baked into ProtoSphere 1.4 is the Presentation Auditorium. It's a massive virtual meeting place where up to 250 users can participate in a live presentation.

You can watch how it works in this video I created. It shows how presenters (moderators) control the presentation of content and can freely move about the stage. Meanwhile, all attendees have a front-row view of the stage, projection screen, and presenters, so they can see and hear the presentation with perfect clarity.



There's one thing about a virtual conference that's always better than life in the real world: No matter where you sit, you're guaranteed the best seat in the house! :-)

ProtoSphere 1.4 Feature Peek: Presentation Boards let you display and share content on the fly

Our engineers have been hard at work on ProtoSphere 1.4, and have made some improvements to the dynamic billboards feature we showed you a couple months ago. It's evolved into Presentation Boards. They appear throughout the ProtoSphere environment on any surface, including walls, whiteboards, easels, screens, etc., and provide the ability to display and share content to anyone that enters those spaces.

But now we've created two types, Single-Slide and Multi-Slide Presentation Boards. Single-Slide Presentation Boards let you display image files and text. Supported image formats include .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .png, .bmp, .tga, and .dds. You can also add text to the surfaces using the editor function. These surfaces are useful for agendas, announcements, note-taking, navigation signage, or other types of branding and personalization.

Multi-Slide Presentation Boards serve the same purpose, but they have the added benefit of being able to support multiple slides of content. So you can present PowerPoint slideshows (.ppt and .pptx) right in your ProtoSphere environment.

I've put together a video to demonstrate the Presentation Boards below: