Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Oblong Rolls Out New Collaboration Tool

Los Angeles-based Oblong, best known as the developer of 3D, interactive software used for meetings and "spatial computing", says it has rolled out a new collaboration tools aimed at virtual teams. According to Oblong, its new software, Rumpus, is a visual collaboration application aimed at the web conferencing market. Oblong says its new software provides simultaneous access to shared screens fro m meeting participants, with such features as shared cursors, annotation, and emojis for signaling sentiment. Pricing on the new software has not been announced. According to Oblong, the new Rumpus software uses technology it developed on its enterprise product, Mezzanine. Oblong is led by CEO John Underkoffler. The company is venture backed by Greenspring Associates, Industry Ventures, UTIMCO, Morgan Stanley and Foundry Group.

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