[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.