Jan Goetgeluk of Virtuix next to the Omni Treadmill at CES 2015.
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Virtuix shows off final Omni Treadmill to take virtual reality beyond the chair

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Virtual reality is starting to get some real products. Samsung shipped its Gear VR virtual reality headset in December, and now Virtuix has finalized the design of its Omni Treadmill, which replicates walking and running in a 360 degrees of freedom while you’re inside a virtual world.

I saw the production version of the Omni Treadmill for the first time at the 2015 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. Virtual reality was one of its big themes. The Omni works with a variety of headsets, such as Samsung’s Gear or the Oculus Rift, and it is one of many devices aimed at getting gamers off the couch and more active.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.