Vega Remote

For presenters on a Windows laptop

The room waits while you Alt‑Tab to the demo.

Then it's back to the laptop to find your slide again. With Vega Remote the switch happens on your phone: one tap puts the demo on the big screen, and Back to slide 4 brings back the slide you left.

Early testers pay half the regular monthly price for as long as they stay subscribed. No payment now, and you'll see the price before anything is charged.

An animation of Vega Remote: a phone running the controller next to the projector it drives. It points at a chart, goes to the next slide, puts a pipeline dashboard on the projector, comes back to slide 4, ends the talk, starts the deck again and jumps to slide 3. The buttons under it step through the same moments.

Your phone

    The projector. Tarrow Freight is a made-up company.

      • Windows 10 and 11 laptops
      • Any phone with a browser, nothing to install on it
      • PowerPoint, PDFs, Google Slides, dashboards and video
      • Built by Evan Biery, solo developer

      What used to send you back to the laptop

      Every one of these pulls you away from the room. With Vega Remote each one is handled on the phone in your hand, and this is the part of the app that does it.

      • You stop the slideshow to show the demo, then hunt for your slide.

        Show a window puts your demo, a dashboard or a site on the big screen. Back to slide 4 returns to the same slide, in about half a second.

      • After the demo, the clicker does nothing until you click back into PowerPoint.

        The phone's Next and Back go to the slideshow itself, so it doesn't matter which window has focus on the laptop.

      • You walk back to the laptop to see what's next and read your notes.

        The phone shows the next slide as a picture and your speaker notes from the deck, in text you can make bigger.

      • Your notes end up on the projector. Then your inbox does.

        Tap a deck and it starts full screen on the projector, with Presenter View on the laptop. Only the slideshow, or the one window you pick, goes up.

      • The TV cuts off the edges of your slides.

        Vega spots a TV that crops the picture, fits your slides inside its edges and tells you once, with Undo.

      • You lose your place and click through ten slides to find it.

        Go to slide shows every slide as a picture. Tap the one you want and the room sees it.

      • One stray click, and the slideshow is gone.

        End always asks first. Next on the last slide asks too, and staying for questions is the default.

      • A laser pointer doesn't show up on a TV, and the clicker that does costs $130 to $200.

        Hold the slide on your phone and point. Switch between laser, spotlight, pen and magnifier from the chip on the picture.

      • The remote loses the laptop mid-talk, and nothing tells you.

        The phone always shows what it's connected to. If the laptop sleeps or drops, a banner says so, your slide stays up, and Next waits instead of failing silently.

      The controller in your hand

      One screen for the whole talk. The room's view is the biggest thing on it, and the buttons sit where your thumb already is.

      1. 1

        Where you are

        "On Projector · slide 4 of 8" and your timer, always on screen. If the laptop drops, you see it here first.

      2. 2

        The room's view

        Exactly what the room sees, big enough to read, including black or white when you hide the screen. Swipe it to change slides.

      3. 3

        Pointer

        Hold the picture and point. The chip switches between laser, spotlight, pen and magnifier in two taps.

      4. 4

        Up next and notes

        The next slide as a picture. Your speaker notes open under the slide, read from the deck itself.

      5. 5

        Back, Hide, Next

        Next is the big one. Hide blacks out the screen; hold it to pick white instead.

      6. 6

        More

        Go to slide, your agenda, notes, Show a window, Screen (full, split, fit to TV), timer and My defaults. End is last, and asks first.

      Your laptop, or the computer in the room

      Connecting is the part phone remotes get wrong most often, so the phone always says what it's connected to.

      Your own laptop

      Connect once. After that it shows up on your phone by name, and tapping a deck starts it full screen on the projector, with Presenter View on the laptop.

      A computer that's already in the room

      It shows a QR code and 8 digits. Scan it or type them, and your phone runs the talk. In Shared mode a guest can present, but can't open the owner's files or windows.

      Your Vega account

      Sign in with a code sent to your email. There's no password to remember, and your phone stays signed in.

      My defaults. Notes on or off, your hide colour, pointer, timer length and buzz points, and Fit to TV: set them once and every talk starts that way.

      What it puts on the big screen

      • PowerPoint
      • PDF
      • Google Slides
      • Excel
      • Word
      • Google Sheets and Docs
      • Power BI
      • Any website or web app
      • YouTube
      • Video files
      • Canva
      • Figma
      • Miro
      • Mentimeter

      Sites you use often come from your own browser history, so this week's dashboard is already on the list.

      Actions, Layouts and Agendas

      The everyday side of Vega Remote. You set each one up in the Vega Remote app on your laptop, then Send to phone.

      Actions

      One-tap buttons on your phone that open an app, a site or a file on the laptop. Group them into folders.

      Layouts

      Put your apps where they go across your screens in one tap, Full or Split on each screen. Or let a layout run by itself when you plug into those screens.

      Agendas

      Your talk's running order: the deck, then the demo site, then the video. During the talk it's one tap per step on the phone.

      Only what you pick goes on the big screen

      • Desktop iconsHidden while you present, back when you finish.
      • Your windowsAnything you showed goes back where it was, at the same size.
      • Your filesDecks open read-only. Vega never saves over your presentation.
      • Who's in controlYour own phone. On a room computer, only the phone that typed its code, until either side disconnects.

      Questions

      When can I try it?

      It runs on my own laptop today. Testers from this list get it in small groups once the installer for other Windows laptops is ready. No date promised.

      Do my phone and laptop need the same Wi‑Fi?

      No. They connect through Vega's server, so your phone can stay on mobile data while the laptop uses the venue's Wi‑Fi or your hotspot. The laptop does need internet; a direct mode for rooms without it is planned.

      Do I still need a clicker?

      Your phone covers Next, Back and a black or white screen, plus a laser, spotlight, pen and magnifier that show up on TVs too. It also does what a clicker can't: start the deck, switch to your demo and come back to the same slide.

      Will it work with the TV in our meeting room?

      If the TV is plugged into the laptop, yes, and Vega fits your slides inside a TV that crops its edges. Wireless screens (casting to the TV) aren't supported yet.

      What about a computer that's already in the room?

      Vega needs to be installed on that computer too. It then shows a QR code and 8 digits, and your phone connects with either one.

      Which phones work?

      Any iPhone or Android phone with a browser. There's nothing to install from an app store.

      How much is it?

      The regular price isn't set yet. Early testers pay half of it for as long as they stay subscribed. No payment now, and you'll see the price before anything is charged.

      Mac?

      Windows comes first. Mac is planned, with no date yet.

      Who's building it?

      Evan Biery, solo developer.