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Use of a laser pointer in screen share

Having the use of a laser pointer in screenshare within Teams, and the ability to switch between a laser pointer, normal arrow and drawing pen would be an extremely useful addition.

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  • Miguel Morales commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please make sure the Pointer feature protects Veterans with PTSD. Some had combat experience and looking at a red dot may make them uncomfortable. Allow an option to switch to a yellow circle so all users can follow the mouse and know where the presenter is clicking or talking about. This will be good for software demos. Thanks.

  • TPG commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In the current Corona times, more and more coordination, meetings and presentations are carried out online with the help of teams. The sharing of the screen has also reached a new level of importance. But a big shortcoming is the presentation of the mouse pointer: the audience does not see the mouse pointer fast enough and a lot of attention is lost by searching for the mouse pointer and it takes a lot of concentration. The mouse pointer is the means of choice for directing attention to a particular aspect on the screen.
    We are not aware of any other 3rd party tools for this purpose.

  • Karen B commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Your comment is valuable
    Having a team pointer would be very useful, now we handle other applications for presentation, projects, monitoring of activities and we need to highlight information so that they follow us.

    Thanks

  • Sergio G commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a great feature as you can easy show or demo actions in the PC while sharing screen

  • Marc commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We're planning to use it for online trainings. Currently, we must use Skype for Business, because there are two important features not in Teams:
    - laser pointer visualization + other tools (e.g. highlighter)
    - thumbnail preview of power point slides, to see which slide is coming next

  • RFCom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be helpful when walking someone through the steps on a screen share without having to take control or take their mouse to show them how to do something.

  • Agatha commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    A laser point is a must feature on teams,including the use of an arrow,pen and highlighter.

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