Virtuix has released a new video showing Minecraft being played on two Omni’s with the Oculus Rift. Will future LAN centers one day be filled with rows of Omnis?

The Virtuix Omni is an omnidirectional treadmill made for virtual reality gaming. The device is in the midst of an already successful Kickstarter that is on it’s way to raising more than 1 million dollars.

Virtuix used the Minecrift mod to add unofficial Oculus Rift support to Minecraft. The CEO of Virtuix, Jan Goetgeluk, tells me that “Even though the Minecraft graphics seem unsuited for VR, the game is actually a blast with Rift + Omni.”

The Kinect-based tracking still looks iffy. Virtuix plans to ship the Omni with their own tracking solution that should be better suited for the task than the Kinect. Made-for-Omni games are likely to have more seamless implementation of player movement.

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Ben Lang
Ben is the world's most senior professional analyst solely dedicated to the XR industry, having founded Road to VR in 2011—a year before the Oculus Kickstarter sparked a resurgence that led to the modern XR landscape. He has authored more than 3,000 articles chronicling the evolution of the XR industry over more than a decade. With that unique perspective, Ben has been consistently recognized as one of the most influential voices in XR, giving keynotes and joining panel and podcast discussions at key industry events. He is a self-described "journalist and analyst, not evangelist."
  • seanlumly

    After all these months, I keep seeing the same prototype in the demo, with little word/news about actual production, or development progress. I have faith in this guys abilities at PR, but I’m seriously worried about his ability to run a successful business.

  • kijutsu

    Not sure what you mean. Their Kickstarter campaign still has a few weeks to go so would the best business decisions be made AFTER you know how much money you actually have?? As for updates, I’m a backer and on their forum and Jan do update us about once a week.

  • kijutsu

    Can’t edit my post? Anyway “wouldn’t”, “does” and remove that “and”. Proofreading yourself ftw…

  • kevin williams

    There is the question of the ‘in-home’ against ‘out-of-home’ approach. Though the KS may be successful, the take-up of orders is mixed – a question of applicability towards the modern home. How many people can dedicate the storage and standing space to own a unit – compared with the viability of a business model based on a LAN site approach to deployment?