Mmhmm’s new app turns your video calls into video games

One of Mmhmm's rooms involves hanging out in floating bumper copters. | Image: Mmhmm/David Pierce

Phil Libin doesn't buy the whole enterprise metaverse" thing. Libin is the CEO of Mmhmm, a company making software for video creation and video chat, and he's convinced that the future of work doesn't involve putting on a headset every morning. He has lots of reasons - the technical overhead, the exhaustion that comes from wearing a headset for hours at a time, the total lack of image fidelity - but keeps coming back to one in particular. How am I going to have my coffee if I'm wearing this thing on my face?"

Libin tells me this in an Mmhmm chat inside a room" in the app that features two slowly bouncing copters on top of a Sega Genesis-looking background. Libin's video feed is just his head; his actual background has been...

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