Presenter mode lets you quickly navigate through scenes in a similar manner to a PowerPoint presentation. Activate it by opening the main tools panel on the home menu and toggling presenter mode on.

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In VR, it will attach some buttons to the thumbs sticks on your controller, allowing you to move the thumbstick right to flip through scenes and move the thumb stick left to go back. To close, pull the thumb stick down towards you.

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On desktop, the buttons appear at the top right of the screen.

The broadcast suite provides you with the tools to deliver your lesson by proxy, via Teams or Zoom,  To enable users to view the broadcast on teams of zoom, you will need to select Edify camera as your webcam. Also make sure that disable GPU hardware acceleration is enabled in the settings and restart if necessary.

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Inside your edify lesson, open up the home menu and select the broadcast icon. At the top of the panel, you will have options to start broadcast, screen share window and record broadcast. Below that, you can see four broadcast views. One main view showing what you can see and three empty fields where you can add static cameras into the scene. These are mainly useful for focusing on certain models or giving close up information, such as boards. In this example a side view and the top view of the Rover have been set up. By right clicking the camera or double tapping trigger, the quick actions menu will appear, giving you the option to flip the camera view remove the camera or set auto level on.

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We can also add a camera from view. This is particularly useful when trying to line up a view against the board quickly. Or if you're looking to capture a specific shot that would take much longer to set up the camera manually. It fills our last camera slot. When we select a static broadcast camera to broadcast from and hit the start broadcast button. The camera in that scene turns red and starts flashing to help us identify which camera is live.

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This is what the broadcast is currently showing, and you can see it changes as we switch to different broadcasting cameras.

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You can also screen share Edify rather than using the camera. Simply toggle on the screen share window and hit broadcast and in teams or zoom select the Edify window. This is most useful if you want to share your audio as teams won't allow the standard Edify camera input to send audio.

You can view your Teams or Zoom call inside Edify on one of the boards. To do this, select the target whiteboard, and from within the context menu click Conference and choose the relevant platform you're broadcasting to. You should then be able to see the relevant video call window in Edify.

Edify offers an annotation feature which lets you place pins in the environment or attached to models to display pieces of written information.

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To add an annotation go to Add annotations in the lesson creation screen and type in a title and description. Once you have loaded into your lesson, navigate to the notes and annotations panel, select the annotations tab on the top right corner of the panel, and then select Place.

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The annotation will then spawn near you inside the environment, and you can drag it and place where you would like it to be displayed.

Edify also allows you to add notes to refer back to both before and during a session. In the lesson creation screen, click Add note and then type in the title and description of your note. When you've launched your lesson you can then view your note by clicking on the notes icon in the home panel. Clicking expand will make the note show the full amount of text.

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You can also edit notes by double clicking the text or add new notes by clicking the add new button. Notes can also be deleted.

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For VR users it's recommended that you add notes before you head into a lesson so that you have access to an actual keyboard.

The laser pointer is a tool that can be used to direct the attention of your viewers towards a specific part of a model or board.

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To activate it, open up the quick tools menu and select the laser pointer. To use, hold down trigger in VR or left click on desktop.