Unity as a presentation tool

Hi guys,

I recently was asked to teach a small workshop of interactive architecture at the Melbourne University so I needed a quick theoretical introduction. Power point was out of the question of course, but what interactive tools are there? The best I could think of was Prezi. But then I remembered of my good friend Unity. I couldn't find much about people using it for this regard in the past. So I decided to show you guys what I did and I'm even considering to upload a template so people can use it for their own projects.


Download the final presentation here:
https://github.com/on-studio/NSPACE/tree/master/interactive_architecture_workshop

Next and previous slides are controlled by left and right keys.
I set up a kinect to pick up my arm gestures so I could navigate hands free through the presentation.
UI elements and the content are separated to create a more obvious 3D effect




The presentation had 20 slides so I created 40 individual planes (20 UI, 20 Content) that rotate according to an empty game object behind the camera that served as the radius of those planes.
This was a very fast exercise but I think it has potential for many users.
At the moment each slide is place manually but it would be great to have a editor where you can select your image files and it will create a array according with the amount of slides you specified.
Another cool feature would be to add another "level" on the vertical axis and you use up and down keys so you could use it to organize your presentation by subjects or an index.



So what do you think?
Anyone interested?

 

Yeah,i've seen it used for presentation on last Unite 2014.
its cool thought, might try it my self someday

 

Very cool! A template would be awesome, the background moves a bit too fast.

 

Alright guys, I created a new repository in Github for this project.
Feel free to play around with it and hopefully make it better.

https://github.com/aviel08/unity_presentation_template

 

Innovative and interesting - .ppt's and Prezis are slowly becoming dull in my opinion - the options you have with Unity are literally endless. Fantastic work.

 

pretty cool

 

Hello Alex

This is just fantastic, exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks so much for sharing!

 

looks nice! thanks

 

what about something like this: https://www.cl3ver.com/

 

Hi Alex!
Really nice work! Let us work together. I am planing to extend this presentation to teaching physics as well. How to create animation for physics teaching material?

 

Nice, well done

 

Here is my implementation of Unity Presentation Framework. It is more BI style with Flat design, you can also develop your own Theme and Templates. Feel free to explore

https://github.com/lunarmoon26/UnityPresentationFramework

 

Nice idea and great implementation, I'd probably do something similar in future, thanks for sharing!

 

Cool, I didn't think about this way of using Unity)

 

Hi, I also came up with a presentation tool based on Unit: Slides of loci. Also, you can find some presentations I gave recently with this on the top of the github page.

https://github.com/agostontorok/slides-of-loci#-slides-of-loci-