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 virtual camera that helps you seem extra polished on video calls, and a presentation tool that enables you and your colleagues to look on display as your current your slides.
The corporate thinks these merchandise will assist make on-line conferences extra participating {and professional}, as in the present day folks have a tendency to point out as much as conferences in additional informal gown, with dangerous backgrounds, or select to simply preserve their cameras off. The brand new instruments are supposed to encourage customers to interact with conferences and be extra memorable.
With Airtime Creator, because the software is known as, as an alternative of simply displaying slides, you current them to your viewers. As much as 10 folks may seem on display on the similar time, for those who select.
If the product sounds acquainted, that’s as a result of it’s successfully the successor to mmhmm’s authentic providing. The rebranded software contains every part from the preliminary model, and can be utilized to construct shows the place you’re the main focus, the corporate says. It additionally contains controls that allow you to customise the look, background, and the presentation’s content material and structure.
Airtime Camera is one other new product that allows you to create customized seems to face out in on-line conferences carried out over Zoom, Groups, Meet, Webex, and different providers. With the digicam, you’ll be able to design or tint your background, add a brand, and react utilizing visuals or GIFs. The concept is that all these customizations may help you appeal to extra consideration once you’re in a sea of heads in a web based assembly, or they may help you reinforce your model.
Along with launching the instruments, mmhmm itself is taking on the name Airtime as its official model. Current prospects who’ve the mmhmm app put in on their desktop will see the app title and icon change with the subsequent launch, and so they’ll obtain each instruments, Airtime Creator, and Airtime Digital camera. (Internet customers will see the change instantly.)
The title of mmhmm’s digital digicam will 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 Imaginative and prescient Fund, and others, having beforehand closed on $100 million in exterior capital.
The corporate notes that the Airtime Digital camera will probably be free till August 1, permitting prospects to strive the brand new product. It can then be accessible for a one-time payment of $20 to proceed utilizing. The Airtime Creator software, nonetheless, is out there as a $10 monthly subscription however gives a free trial.