![]() “For our first step, we identified how can we add value in the very near term. “This is a massive blue ocean of new opportunity. “When you think of the potential use cases outside of entertainment, when you think of what you can do with medical imaging or manufacturing visualization, how this affects e-commerce – it’s hard to think of an industry not affected by these new technologies,” Berry said. ![]() The company will also be publicly demoing the product at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March. Limited developer testing is under way now, and Envelop says it plans to have a more public beta available prior to the Vive and Rift headsets coming to market. It currently works on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but the long-term plan is to get it able to work with every hardware platform. It allows users to perform all of their computing functions while using a VR headset – without needing to be in VR, in other words, and constantly be setting that equipment aside and picking it back up again as tasks are switched between. The company describes its initial product – the EVE, for short – as an immersive computing platform for windowed PC content and for VR apps. He thought there was an opportunity, though, to go beyond just the fun and entertainment use cases. Envelop was created to take a shot at creating that immersive computing platform.” ![]() That’s kind of the next logical step, in terms of platforms. All these immersive technologies are going to enable an age of immersive computing. “We believe this is a fundamentally transformative new technology, much in way PCs or mobile phones were,” Berry said. Why “Envelop”? Because, Berry explains, that’s what “these new, immersive technologies are doing – actually enveloping you with data.” I came out and said to my partner, we have to start a VR software company. It was the first time I felt a true presence, with a capital P – my brain was tricked into thinking it was somewhere else. “When I first put their headset on,” Berry recalls in an interview with BGR about his Valve experience, “it was rock-solid. The new funding, Berry said, is going to be used to also flesh out the company’s software development kit, to engage on developer relations and to boot up the company’s sales pipeline.Įnvelop today is part of what’s become something of a robust VR community in and around Seattle, with Oculus VR having an R&D office there, in addition to companies in the area working on VR like Valve, Microsoft and others.Ī lot of activity, and the impetus for Envelop’s participation in the space, can be traced at least partly back to that moment when Berry got a taste of the VR products being worked on at Valve. Envelop is using the money it’s raised to grow the product and business teams, as the company prepares to have its initial software offering – the Envelop Virtual Environment – available later this year when headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive arrive. The company he leads today is creating productivity software that allows enterprises and consumers to “create, work and play” in a VR environment. The technology was so good, light years beyond the video games with crappy graphics he remembers during the 90s when he was working on his PhD in Japan, that it inspired him to get busy putting together a VR shop of his own. He still recalls that moment and his immediate reaction. Indeed, this year is poised to be a seminal one for his company, which he and a partner launched in 2014 after Berry says he got a demo of some of Valve’s VR technology a couple of years ago. MUST SEE: 5 secret features hiding inside your iPhone
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