VR Treadmill Firm Virtuix Secures Additional $3M in Crowd Funding, Reaching $200M Valuation

I gotta say, ever dive into something and just get lost? That’s kind of where I ended up digging through this story here. So, there’s this VR treadmill company, Virtuix, and they’re into all kinds of stuff. Last year, they kicked off some kinda crowd-investment thing to get more bucks for their VR gadget, Omni One. It’s like, the gizmo for VR fans, but apparently now it’s doing military bootcamp too? No kidding.

Alright, let me try to make sense of this—Virtuix wrapped up this funding round, Series B-2 or whatever, raking in over 3 million bucks. Some crowd-funded magic over at StartEngine. Total loot? A bit north of $18 million when you tally up the whole Series B escapade. Not too shabby, right?

Thing is, they’re selling this Omni One with this fancy joystick headset or whatever for $3,495—unless you’re planning on turning your living room into a bootcamp. Yep, they’ve got their military version, the Omni Mission Trainer. Guess what? Even the U.S. Air Force is involved. Soldiers get to hustle around with their gear in a VR wonderland—that’s wild. Or maybe not my kind of wild, but hey, it’s a thing now.

What was I saying? Oh yeah, so Virtuix now claims they’re worth something like $201 million, mainly based on stock stuff. Pre-IPO this, $6.22 that. Honestly, it’s all mumbo jumbo to me. Plus, their stock? You can’t just casually grab it off the major exchanges. Private little party, I guess.

Virtuix, by the way, kicked off in 2013. I think they started with this Kickstarter gig, and raised over a million. Fast forward, they’ve snagged over $40 million from big names. Mark Cuban and a bunch of venture folks jumped in too. Feels kinda like a roller coaster, huh?

Oh, almost forgot—get this, they’ve sold over $18 million worth, mostly to fun joints like Dave & Buster’s. And they’ve got this squad of over 400k players registered. Impressive? Maybe. If you’re into that. They say their factory can churn out about 3,000 Omni Ones a month. Like, if you needed to know that.

So yeah, that’s the scoop. Who’d have thought VR treadmills would be this kind of ride?