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Unless they just changed it, they seem to have snappy taglines that explain it well already:

Liveloop is really real-time collaboration within Powerpoint

Collaborate in real-time, keystroke by keystroke, without ever leaving Office.

These aren't bad. I wonder if they have tested them with the target market.

I have sympathy. It's a hard concept to get across.

That said, it takes until 2:30 in the video before we see people collaborating on the same slide at the same time. And there might be a bit of meta-confusion because they're working on a presentation for "LiveLoop Zoo". I know that seems like a harmless self-reference, but I've seen people get tripped up on much easier ideas.

That seems a bit wrong. I wonder if, instead of a video where I have to press "play", we could have a silent animation that starts immediately on the home page. Show two cartoon figures typing into PowerPoint screens, with their changes reflected immediately. (And it's never bad to show human faces with emotions.)

Anyway, that sort of thing is hard, and they're to be commended for getting this far, my armchair criticism aside.



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