Startup Envelop VR raised around $5.5 million for its platform which promised to use VR to surround you in limitless windows. The company’s VR tech basically extended the Windows operating system so you could theoretically work with a number of apps spread around you in VR. Ultimately, the idea was that legacy apps could eventually use Envelop tools to extend into VR and use 3D space more effectively to display information.
We reported on the startup finally closing the funding round in January 2016. By January 2017, the startup had shut down.
The reason this bears repeating is that one of our favorite VR apps, Bigscreen, announced seed funding today to the tune of $3 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz (early investors in Oculus). Bigscreen has a lot in common with that earlier startup in that it basically does the same thing as Envelop, Virtual Desktop and several other Windows extension apps — with one big caveat.
In Bigscreen, you’re not alone.
Source: Bigscreen Raises $3 Million To Succeed Where Envelop Failed