I think the PowerPoint 2007 add-on, pptPlex really resembles one of the future shapes that live presentation content will take. It’s even more interesting to look at some of the R&D the development team have been doing with interactivity.
The pptPlex team has posted about experiments interacting with pptPlex using a 3D camera and a Wii controller – this really ‘haptic’ approach to presentations is so natural and surely represents the goal for a progression from the standard remote slide advance button and laser pointer.
They’ve most recently been testing pptPlex in combination with the touch-screen capabilities of Windows 7. If used in combination with a multitouch display or touch-sensitive projection screen sensors, this will be really exciting stuff for live presentations.
Touch screen demo (via pptPlex Website)