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Oblong sells a conference room product and we also do custom work.

I work at Oblong and recently gave a short (unofficial) talk which covers some past and current activities.

https://creativemornings.com/talks/brandon-harvey/1

My favorite sentence from the piece is "there’s a huge gap between what looks good on film and what is natural to use". Yep!

They morphed their high end concept stuff into smart meeting room and team collaboration tool platform called Mezzanine (- see http://www.oblong.com/) which is sold into large enterprise class customers e.g IBM, SAP, Accenture, NASA, GE etc.

I kept imagining the kind of BS the actors are talking about the fake graphics.

They recently received 65M funding. You can supposedly buy that stuff.

if you thought the interface was bad, try programming with their software stack.

Interesting. Would you care to elaborate?

I worked there for 2 years. My comment was mostly jeering and being silly. It would be really bad form to speak ill of them in any substantive way. All I can say is that they punch above their weight.