Make video calls feel like a segment on John Olivers show.
It makes bland, old-fashioned video chat an interactive, dare we say fun, experience.
Imagine your kids remote school with Mmhmm, and you start to see the potential.
Mmhmm
The idea is to kill PowerPoint, Mmhmm founder Phil Libin told Lifewire viawhat else?Zoom chat.
Nobody needs to stream PowerPoint slides ever again.
Its a hybrid between a movie and a slide deck.
Mmhmm
Zoom Boom
When the worldwide COVID-19 lockdown hit, video calls took off.
Families stayed in contact via Skype and FaceTime, and businesses flocked to Zoom.
Now Zoom is making a play for the home, with itsnewly-announcedintegration on home smart displays.
Professional video chat, then, is here to stay.
Zoom itself has some serious privacy and security issues, but the service itself is dead easy to use.
Just click a link to a chat, and youre in.
That ease of use has been the fuel in Zooms explosive growth.
Mmhmm was conceived in response to this video-calling boom.
This is all super new, says Libin.
We started a couple of months ago.
Its our first COVID-native project.
Basic video chats are fine for friends and family, but for anything else, theyre limiting.
Todays video-conferencing tools are fundamentally unchanged since the beginning of Skype.
you’re able to see people and talk to them, but thats it.
Interactive, Flexible, Non-Boring
Mmhmm is designed to fix conferencing tools.
But thats just the beginning.
Basically, any teaching situation, he said.
I think the world is moving to everything being a hybrid experience.
Previously, meetings were all live, or all recorded.
The mixture makes it much more powerful, Libin said.
Recording
Recording is the other important part of Mmhmm.
Viewers can skip to anywhere in the timeline to choose which parts they want to see.
you could even cut out the human presenter entirely, which may be good in educational videos.
Once youve seen Mmhmm in action, two people working on a presentation together seems like an obvious addition.
If one is working on a slide, then the other person can see the live edits.
Both presenters can also show up together in the same virtual room.
Its like Google Slides on steroids.
The app is still in beta, and is adding new features as it goes.
By the time Mmhmm launches in late fall, there should be a Windows version, too.
Good luck killing off PowerPoint, though.
