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Follow Me Slide Show Integration

This post is about a new feature introduced in  Collabora Online , which is integrated in Nextcloud  Talk .  About the feature In my previous blog , I talked about the development of the new Follow Me Slideshow. This feature is now integrated with Nextcloud Talk, allowing you to seamlessly start the presentation during meetings. Thanks to  NLnet  Foundation for sponsoring this work. Working of the feature To use this feature in Nextcloud, you now get a new button inside the smart picker, which asks you to select the presentation you wish to start as a follow-me slideshow and generates a link to the slideshow. Based on the file owner presentation leader is defined, and the rest of the joiners become followers automatically. Let's understand with an example. The presenter clicks on the "start presentation" button in Smart Picker A pop-up appears which filters and shows only presentation files (i.e, odp, pptx, etc) The presenter then selects any file that they...

Follow Me Slide Show

 This post is about a new feature introduced in Collabora Online . About the feature The use case, for example, is a video meeting or a classroom with a teacher and students. The teacher starts a presentation, which gets auto-started for the students. The students' views update automatically as the teacher steps to the next slide. This is meant to work with any presentations that Impress can load, using the WebGL-based presentation output of Collabora Online. Thanks to NLnet Foundation for sponsoring this work. Working of the feature This feature works similarly to other collaborative features in Collabora Online, broadcasting one user's actions to the rest of the people working on the same document to display real-time updates. When a follow-me slideshow starts, a normal slideshow begins for everyone on the document. In the background, we mimic every action (i.e., pressing the next/previous button, starting a video, or exiting) for each user by broadcasting the original actio...