March 3, 2009?? New sho-Q 7 released. Sho-Q 7 completely eliminates the need for a confidence monitor or additional display on a lectern to read, mark or annotate PowerPoint slides.
Cebit, Hannover, March 3, 2009. After very enthusiastic reactions during the previews at the Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, and the Eventech in Glasgow, sho-Q and ILS have launched sho-Q 7.
The companies developed this software specifically for large touch monitors, and now for the latest operating system developments from Microsoft. Sho-Q 7 queues multiple PowerPoint presentations and in its presenter view includes not only previous/current/next slide and slide notes, but also offers a live view of what is happening on the screen behind the presenter. Presenters can now see slide transitions, animations and videos on the single lectern monitor, exactly as they occur on screen projected for the audience.
A single touch allows the live view to be enlarged to almost full screen on the monitor; this may be at a higher resolution than what is actually projected and results in great legibility and increased presenter confidence. In this mode the presenter can now use his finger or a stylus to interactively mark the data at his/her slide, and draw or write on these slides. Touch the blank screen button before going to pen mode, and the system inserts a new blank slide on which you can write. You can move back to presenter mode any time. This contributes greatly to exciting presentations and creates more retention of the messages delivered in any seminar or lecture.
"With sho-Q 7 we totally eliminate the need for a confidence monitor", says Henk de Groot, managing director of ILS, "we wanted presenters and teachers to get the best out of PowerPoint, we even went as far as embedding Windows Media Player inside Microsoft PowerPoint to get the best control of flash animations and videos while presenting with sho-Q".
Unfortunately the sho-Q 7 live window is not available to XP users and VISTA users that cannot switch on Aero.
Sho-Q 7 is however fully ready and designed for Windows 7.
Evaluation copies can be downloaded from www.intelligentlecterns.com and www.sho-q.com . The retail price remains EUR 499.
Prerequisites are : a large touch or pen interactive display, extended desktop capability on the PC, running AERO, and MS PowerPoint 2007 or MS Office 2007.
