The Even G1 and Marp demo exhibit at LODGE XR Talk Vol.30 has ended
At LODGE XR Talk Vol.30, held at LODGE on August 21, I exhibited a demo at a booth in the venue where Even G1 and Marp were connected with Web Bluetooth to display something like presenter notes in the air.
This relates to the smart glasses + Web Bluetooth work I have been doing recently. This time, Marp slides were displayed in Chrome on a MacBook Air, and when the page changed, the text displayed on Even G1 also changed.
I also created a popup display for the day, which I will write about somewhere else, and gave technical explanations to people who were interested. I am deeply grateful to the organizers for giving me this kind of opportunity. It is a wonderful event.
Although Web Bluetooth connection and text transmission were quite difficult, I tried to make editing Marp content very easy.
You can write comments inside pages of a Markdown file for Marp, and I made it so that when the slide page containing a comment is displayed, that comment appears on Even G1 as presenter notes. For example, writing the following in a Markdown file means it will not appear on the slide, but "Hello World!!" will be shown on the smart glasses as presenter notes.
<!-- Hello World!! -->This may make it easy for Marp users to adopt. So I plan to use this mechanism in various lightning talks for a while and test it.
At the venue, I demonstrated Japanese display, bullet text with line breaks, displayable symbols, and long text. Having participants use it gave me various feedback.
- Display images too
- Display text faster
- The connection flow is complicated
And so on. Some feedback seems like it can be addressed quickly, so I will keep researching. I plan to polish it a little more and eventually release it as OSS.
Thank you to everyone who participated.