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Omni Group introduces OmniDazzle - "mesmerizing mouse movements"

by David Chartier Jun 2nd 2006 at 11:17PM

After weeks of ambiguous hints and torturous teasing, The Omni Group has unveiled their newest product, and it definitely isn't a Sweedish meatball maker. Introducing: OmniDazzle, a "set of fun and useful enhancements that help you track the location of your mouse pointer and provide options for highlighting certain areas of your screen". Basically, it's like one of those mouse-trailing toys tools with some actually useful goodness baked in. For example, OmniDazzle can place a spotlight on your mouse, dimming the background and helping you or your audience focus on what's important. It offers other interesting tools for pinpointing your mouse and even drawing on screen for those times when crayons just won't do. In fact, there's a lot of quirky (and handy) stuff OmniDazzle is capable of, so why not check it out while it's in beta?

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mike

As a teacher I could find some uses for it but..........doesn't seem to work in keynote. That sucks!

June 03 2006 at 9:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason Anderson

Ugh! Doesn't work on my Mac mini G4 1.25GHz. :-(

June 03 2006 at 8:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TerryJ

I am using it on my MacBook 2.0/2BG right now and it's running fine with all the plug ins. I also have a MBP with the higher level graphics but I have not installed this on it yet. I am right now comparing graphic apps like this to decide which machine to keep and sell the other one so I am pretty surprised that the MacBook is able to handle something like this as well as it does.

June 03 2006 at 4:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan Lurie

I've been using it on a 1.67 PowerBook with the 128MB Graphics card, and it runs fine. I see OmniDazzle as OmniGroup's excuse to play around with core image and see what it can do.

June 03 2006 at 1:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian P

Wow. Won't even work on my 1st gen Mac mini.

June 03 2006 at 11:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kyle

Depends if it works with Keynote, esp. the scribble option it could be useful.

June 03 2006 at 11:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tripdragon

well thats cause it looks like that developer has teamed up with Omni !

June 03 2006 at 10:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul Livingstone

How utterly pointless... and they expect people to pay money for it in the future? Uh-huh... good luck with that.

June 03 2006 at 10:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AndyL

Very cool. It combines some things that have been done before with a few new tricks, and most importantly, it presents a seamless, intuitive interface.

June 03 2006 at 8:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Patrick

Requires a graphic card with pixel shader - doesn't work on my G4 TiBook.
But supporting the GM950 only partially is quite stupid as its probably the most popular gfx-chip at the moment (Mini, MacBook).

June 03 2006 at 7:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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