Evernote founder Phil Libin is prepared to enliven your video conferences. The entrepreneur’s video startup, mmhmm, launched in 2020 amid the pandemic, on Thursday unveiled its newest product: a video toolkit for on-line conferences known as Airtime. The suite contains two associated instruments: a digital digital camera that helps you seem extra polished on video calls, and a presentation instrument that permits you and your colleagues to look on display as your current your slides.
The firm thinks these merchandise will assist make on-line conferences extra partaking {and professional}, as at present folks have a tendency to indicate as much as conferences in additional informal costume, with unhealthy backgrounds, or select to simply maintain their cameras off. The new instruments are supposed to encourage customers to have interaction with conferences and be extra memorable.
With Airtime Creator, because the instrument known as, as a substitute of simply displaying slides, you current them to your viewers. Up to 10 folks also can seem on display on the identical time, when you select.
If the product sounds acquainted, that’s as a result of it’s successfully the successor to mmhmm’s authentic providing. The rebranded instrument contains every little thing from the preliminary model, and can be utilized to construct displays the place you’re the main target, the corporate says. It additionally contains controls that allow you to customise the look, background, and the presentation’s content material and format.
Airtime Camera is one other new product that permits you to create customized seems to face out in on-line conferences performed over Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, and different providers. With the digital camera, you’ll be able to design or tint your background, add a emblem, and react utilizing visuals or GIFs. The thought is that most of these customizations may also help you entice extra consideration if you’re in a sea of heads in an internet assembly, or they may also help you reinforce your model.
In addition to launching the instruments, mmhmm itself is taking up the title Airtime as its official model. Existing prospects who’ve the mmhmm app put in on their desktop will see the app title and icon change with the following launch, and so they’ll obtain each instruments, Airtime Creator, and Airtime Camera. (Web customers will see the change instantly.)
The title of mmhmm’s digital digital camera can even be up to date to “Airtime” within the assembly software program’s settings.
The startup previously generally known as mmhmm is backed by Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, and others, having beforehand closed on $100 million in outdoors capital.
The firm notes that the Airtime Camera shall be free till August 1, permitting prospects to attempt the brand new product. It will then be accessible for a one-time price of $20 to proceed utilizing. The Airtime Creator instrument, nevertheless, is offered as a $10 monthly subscription however gives a free trial.
