The next contraption for your makeshift holodeck comes in July: A $500 VR treadmill

The virtual-reality revolution is charging ahead, and one piece of hardware that could prove key to its future will start shipping later this year. 

Virtuix is one of the companies working toward the VR future, and it plans to start shipping its Omni treadmill starting in July. Unlike Oculus and Sony, Virtuix isn’t working on the optics of VR. Instead, it has a treadmill-like device called the Omni that it will start sending out to customers that already preordered this summer. The $500 device enables players wearing VR headsets, like Oculus’s Rift visor, to wear special shoes and walk on a touch surface in any direction. The device then translates that foot motion into in-game action.