live demos
Unrecorded product presentations
Live demos are real-time demonstrations of a product, software, or skill performed before an audience rather than shown as recordings.
The format carries inherent risk—things can go wrong in the moment: The live demo crashed right when the investors walked in.
In tech contexts, live demos are both dreaded and valued because they prove something actually works.
The phrase often appears as a compound modifier: a live-demo environment, live-demo anxiety.
- presentationsFormal informative addresses
- showcaseCabinet for displaying items
- walkthroughsComprehensive completion guides
- show and tellStudent object presentation
- tutorialsInstructional guides for beginners
hands-on · interactive · software · audience · pitch · prototype · real-time · screen share · webinar · product · launch · sales pitch · glitches · Murphy's Law · rehearsal · fingers crossed · Q&A · slides
- Arts Festivalpainting, sculpture, music, dance, theater
- teaching methodspresentation, lecturing, discussion, modeling, hands-on learning
- museum programseducational programs, family programs, youth programs, adult learning, community programs
- Science Museuminteractive displays, science museums, pendulums, prisms, magnets
- tech exposE3, tech fair, exhibitors, booths, expo
- teleshoppingQVC, HSN, teleshopping, infomercials, home shopping
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