Nimagna App update: Screen sharing and automatic camera framing
- Christoph Niederberger
- Jan 13, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 28, 2023
We're very excited to start the year with a big release! The Nimagna app now includes screen sharing support, essential for training or teaching sessions, and invaluable for team meetings and townhalls. Thanks to tight integration with Nimagna's storyboard, it comes with unique functionality to prepare and add multiple shares before you start your show. We also enhanced Nimagna’s AI-powered director to include automatic framing support for an even easier setup and for unrestricted movement during the show.
Share your screen and windows
With the latest update, we have added screen sharing to Nimagna, one of the top features on our user's wish list. As you might expect it allows to share your screen or application windows with your audience in a live session. However, it comes with a special twist that will make your life so much easier.
Prepared screen shares
Nimagna offers the unique possibility to prepare your screen sharing sessions by adding a separate screen share to the storyboard for each application or window before the show. By positioning them appropriately among your other content the different shares will be shown at the right moment during your show. This makes it super simple to switch between many shares without struggling to select the right window or having to reveal the entire screen, just by following the storyboard timeline.
Automatic framing to move around freely
We enhanced Nimagna’s AI-powered director to include automatic framing support. Nimagna now automatically detects whether you are sitting in front of your computer or standing up to start your presentation. By automatically adapting to your movements, you are free to move around freely and Nimagna will always put you on stage in the best possible perspective.
Storyboard enhancements
With the previous update, we added hiding and removing of slides or other items in the storyboard. Now, we added the possibility to easily duplicate a story item or replace a story item with different content. For presentations, this will automatically replace all slides with the newly selected presentation and keep the storyboard order in place.
If a storyboard source is missing when loading a show, you will also be offered to replace the source with a different one, or to remove it completely. The same happens if you share a window and close it during the show.
New onboarding experience
We greatly simplified the onboarding experience: Besides removing the need to specify the camera framing for each camera, we redesigned the entire onboarding process. We added videos that show how to integrate Nimagna with the preferred online communication tool or help with the first steps using Nimagna. Also, the camera configuration has been adapted such that users only have to configure the camera setup in rare cases where more than two cameras were detected.
Just came across this through ZEnhancer and it really helped clarify things for me. I especially appreciate how you broke down the concept without making it feel overwhelming. It's a refreshing take I haven't seen elsewhere.
Reading about tracking daily screen time on popemote really made me think about my own habits more closely. It's eye-opening how quickly those hours add up without us noticing. I might need to start paying more attention to my own screen usage.
The ability to prepare multiple screen shares in the storyboard before a show sounds like a huge time-saver for presentations. I'm also impressed that the automatic framing can tell if you're sitting or standing to adjust the shot. This update seems to make live sessions much more flexible, and a good grid maker could help plan out the visual layout.
Really cool to see Nimagna adding screen sharing, especially with the tight integration into the storyboard mentioned in the article. That prepared sharing workflow sounds like a major time-saver for running a polished session. For anyone curious about the broader background of the tech, I found some interesting context on Bizarre Lineage Wiki.
Really cool to see screen sharing finally land—that "prepared screen shares" feature sounds like a lifesaver for anyone running training sessions where you don't want to fumble with tabs mid-presentation. I’ve been looking for a tool that handles framing automatically so I can walk around, and this update seems to cover it nicely. Curious if you’ve compared it to something like ScopeQuill for similar use cases.