Plutoview is Improving Online Collaboration with Multiple Screen Sharing Browser
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The school year is back and everyone is still left clueless on how to efficiently give our students a solid education. Many schools have gone the route of remote learning to ensure they’re keeping the students and staff safe, but that doesn’t account for the many students who will suffer because of technological gaps. There’s an effort around the country to get our students laptops and hotspots, so they won’t miss out on learning yet that’s only one issue among many.
A major part of in-school learning is collectively working with ones peers. Although there are tools, such as Zoom, where you can share one person’s screen and Google docs, where you can simultaneously work together on one document, there are still many limitations that effect the flow of collaboration.
Two years ago, while working on a school group project at Boston University, Arkadiy Baltser and his partners struggled to complete their project because they didn’t have a way to share multiple screens. To finish the project, the group signed into two separate Skype accounts so they could share two screens: one for their Google doc and one for their notes. According to Baltser, it was “extremely difficult and strenuous and it made no sense.”
Arkadiy Baltser. (Picture taken from Facebook)
Baltser wanted other students to avoid going through this issue, so he created Plutoview, a secure web browser that allows for two or more people to share multiple screens at once. Along with sharing screens, all participants can work together in real time on each screen. For Baltser, the most important aspect of Plutoview is “synchronize distant learning”.
“It’s extremely important to bring that experience of collaboration somehow virtually,” said Baltser. “You need to have students be able to work together.”
“It’s a challenge and I think remote learning will never replace that feeling of the classroom,” he added.
In order to bring his vision to life, Baltser had to assemble a team that was passionate enough and willing to take a risk. As the sole Founder, Baltser knew his limitations and went searching for what he needed to propel his idea. There’s currently six people on the team, who are all based remotely in New York, Boston and Eastern Europe. Once he found the team, he began creating the MVP, which was designed for privacy and includes no third parties.
“We are really opening up a new avenue for how classes can be run and structured,” Balster said. “You can actually get things done quickly.”
Plutoview officially launched last month on July 8, 2020 on Product Hunt, where it was named the #1 product of the week.
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