Thanks to the new Wishlist feature in Esprezo, it immediately became clear to us how important a virtual laser pointer is to our users. Thus, we had no other choice than to sit down and implement such a feature. And gladly we can say that this feature is available from now on.
The virtual laser pointer works much like its real counterpart: the presenter uses the pointer to draw the audience’ attention to a specific region of the current slide (e.g. a certain component within a diagram), or to symbolize the direction of a workflow through a characterizing gesture (e.g. the information flow within a diagram).
Toolbar control and virtual mouse cursor
The new laser pointer feature is made accessible to the moderator through a new symbol in the lower toolbar, represented by a glowing mouse cursor. If the presenter clicks on this control, it starts to blink, indicating that the virtual laser pointer is now active and shown on the screens of the audience in form of an oversized mouse cursor. Whereever you let your mouse cursor point at, the virtual mouse cursor on the viewer’s screen points to exact the same location on the slide. Click once again on the toolbar contro and it stops blinking, indicating that the laser pointer is now disabled. At the same time, the virtual mouse cursor vanishes from the screens of the audience.