Accelerated PowerPoint?

Posted by michael on Sunday August 15, 2004 @05:40AM from the just-what-the-world-needs dept.

darkjohnson writes "If you're looking for an excuse to offer your manager to approve that high end graphics card so you can play Doom 3 at full tilt (on your 'breaks' ;) you might want to check out the Instant Effects' technology as it has the first product (OfficeFX) that justifies upgrading your display hardware so you can do a POWER POINT presentation of all things. Especially true if you're the one stuck with the duty of making them look good. I saw this at Siggraph and was not only impressed with the look but the number of people packed into the booth to see it demoed, competing side by side with real time 3D game renders and high-end effects software."

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Just what I've been waiting for by bobhagopian · 2004-08-15 05:48 · Score: 4, Funny

Text spiraling in at a million miles per hour! Now if only I can figure out how to connect that 4,000 watt subwoofer, I can add sound effects!
Powerpoints new easter egg... by kev82 · 2004-08-15 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

...is built on the doom3 engine. great, and I thought it was bloating the product when they bundled some version of flight simulator with excel

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Re:Didn't NASA... by mabinogi · 2004-08-15 08:10 · Score: 4, Funny

Then we're all doomed

I recently found out that at my daughter's school, the use PowerPoint to call the role.
There's something deeply wrong about that, but I just can't quite put my finger on it...

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