Omni hits the road – Hypergrid Business

The Virtuix Omni at the mall. (Image courtesy Virtuix.)

The world’s leading virtual reality treadmill, the Virtuix Omni, has begun shipping the devices to its Kickstarter backers last month, sawÂ aroundÂ $15 million worth of interest from individual investors through SeedInvest, andÂ won at Top Pick Award from Tom’s Hardware at the CES show in Las Vegas (see video below).

The company also tookÂ the Omni out to the public. In the video below shoppers at a mall in Austin got to try out the Omniâ€™s commercial entertainment use case.

“We had a constant stream of mall visitors lining up to pay $10 for a five-minute Omni experience,” said Virtuix CEO Jan Goetgeluk in an update to supporters. “Our experiment illustrates that a commercial Omni operator could have a profitable business offering pop-up or location-based VR experiences to the public. The mall visitors loved their Omni experience.”

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.