Products & Innovation

Products

I am passionate about creating digital products that bring out the creativity from everyone.
I have been honored by having over 160 million people using these products.

Prezi

Prezi enables anyone to create creative and spatial stories for their presentations. More than 160 million people have used it since its release in 2008. Today we have a 300 people company with offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Budapest and Riga.

We started the company together with Peter Arvai (CEO) and Peter Halacsy (CTO) with their drive to build a global startup and my experience in how to present in more engaging and fun ways. Together we built one of the most globally recognized brands originating from Hungary

Today the fantastic Jim Szafranski is CEO of Prezi and I work on innovation.

Here is an example presentation I made in 2007 to show our art projects. This format of zooming around on a map of ideas and responding to audience questions led to the start of Prezi. These early versions were hand-coded each, so you had to change the code to change anything in them.

I got interested in creating spatial websites and information spaces in 2000 while doing websites with Peter Sandor Nagy

Today Prezi enables anyone to create such presentations.

Since then uncountable number of amazing prezis have been made by people around the world.

See a great selection at https://prezi.com/awards/past/ and https://prezi.com/awards/

Prezi Video and Prezi A.R.

I have always been interested in, and experimenting with augmented reality, even as a young artist.

At Prezi we have been looking into ways to bring similar experiences to widely available devices people have today.

This led to Prezi A.R. first, as seen on TED below, and in 2019 to the release of Prezi Video, which proved to be a fantastic tool to help teachers and students as well as teammates stay more connected during the lockdown months of 2020 and 21.

In 2021 January, about a year after its launch, prezi video reached 1 million users.

Nutshell

Nutshell was an iOS app that made it very simple to create short A.R. like stories using your phone. Take 3 pictures of the most interesting things around you, add comments / animations, and share it as a video.

We did this before ARKit, so we had to code all the spatial mapping ourselves :)

Prezi Delight Lab / Innovation

prezilabs.com

Since 2015 I lead the Delight Lab at Prezi, focusing on innovation. This lets me work with a select few amazing people and spend time on hands on experimentation / coding which - for me - is needed so we can invent new things.

I am the co-inventor of 16 patents dealing with spatial visual communications.

My long time partners in crime for innovation have been Zsuzsa Weiner and Daniel Varga.

See more, and try some new things at:
prezilabs pages

Some highlights from prezilabs

Presenting with hand gestures for remote teaching / work

Large stage A.R presentations

Easy to author spatial slideshow stories

Story by numbers playful interactive Data story builder app

Patents

Inventions I co-authored, from the original zooming-interface application that became Prezi through the ZUI, video-presentation and AR patents that followed — all assigned to Prezi Inc. except the first.

2010 — HUP0800622A2: Apparatus for manual control of computer imaging, especially for manually controlled zooming — the pre-Prezi application (published 2010, filed 2008)
2015 — US9128585B2: 3D rendering in a ZUI environment
2015 — US9207951B2: Grouping with frames to transform display elements within a zooming user interface
2017 — US9703446B2: Zooming user interface frames embedded image frame sequence
2017 — US9753631B2: Navigation with slides in a zooming user interface
2019 — US10185473B2: Adding new slides on a canvas in a zooming user interface
2019 — US10228832B2: Grouping with frames to transform display elements within a zooming user interface
2020 — US10545626B2: Presenter/viewer role swapping during ZUI performance with video background
2020 — US10678394B2: Compositing a ZUI motion picture presentation with a physical scene motion picture presentation
2022 — US11347380B2: Adding new slides on a canvas in a zooming user interface
2023 — US11695971B2: Real-time video feed presentation enhancement system
2023 — US11704626B2: Relocation of content item to motion picture sequences at multiple devices
2024 — US11893541B2: Meeting and collaborative canvas with image pointer
2024 — US12137259B2: Real-time video feed presentation enhancement system