Feet-on with the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill at CES! See! Hear! Smell! Well, not smell. (video link)
This year at CES, we tried out the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill and came away hot, sweaty, and satisfied (eww). The sturdy device fixes its users within a support ring, with their feet gliding across a low-friction surface, enabling them to walk or even run inside of a game without actual real-life legs. You have to provide your own head-mounted display—for CES, Virtuix had an Oculus Rift DK2 set up for use with the Omni—but the experience was mostly seamless.
It takes a bit of time to get used to the device and to figure out exactly how to run effectively—you have to allow the supporting harness to take up most of your weight and your gait, at least at first. It’s more “stumbling” than anything else, but practice makes perfect.
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