[blackhole]

While this is truly, ahem, impressive, I sure hope a real presentation doesn't involve nearly as many dizzying rotations. When attempting to convey an idea, animations should be subtle, or the idea gets lost in the pretty effects.

[CGamesPlay]

I tend to agree. I have tried using impress to create presentations that were spatial, focusing less on the dizzying animations and more on the actual content... But Impress isn't set up for it. Impress is really designed to move the camera about a scene and moving the camera is the only operation it supports well.

You'll notice the user examples from that wiki are mostly the same basic idea... because it's quite difficult to make something more complex with impress out of the box. YOu can see a few pull requests that try to make this easier, like the one that supports subslides (i.e. a slide transition that doesn't cause a camera movement).

[randall]

I think the only place for these presentations is where you're not physically giving the talk. In most cases, simple cuts or dissolves between slides is fine, since like you said, none of this actually adds much to the presentation.

[tommikaikkonen]

I agree. Many of the transitions in the demo presentations, while fancy, take too long to finish. They don't add anything to the presentation.

If you're going to use effects, make sure they actually contribute to or complement the content.

[diggan]

It's a framework for creating presentations and what's linked here is only a demo for showing the functionality. If you want to see real life (yeah, "real life") demos, look under "Presentations" on this page: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/wiki/Examples-and-demos

[manojlds]

Saw the first one under presentations - http://bartaz.github.com/meetjs/css3d-summit/#/title

Really distracting and I wouldn't want to attend the presentation, like the comments above mention.