A Device for Full-Body Movement in Virtual Reality: a VGTimes Interview at CES 2026

VR technology already delivers a strong sense of immersion on its own, but developers continue to look for ways to push it even further. One of the most logical approaches is to let players move using their entire body. At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, VGTimes Editor-in-Chief Rodion Ilin took a closer look at the Virtuix Omni One — a system that allows players to physically walk and run in virtual reality — and spoke with company representative Sergio Garcia about how this approach changes the VR gaming experience.

VGTimes: Please introduce yourself and your role in the company.

Sergio Garcia: My name is Sergio Garcia. I work at Virtuix as Director of Business Development. We created the Omni One. For the first time, when you’re gaming, you can walk and run at full speed in 360 degrees. You can jump, kneel, and crouch, which gives you full immersion in the game.

You become the character in the game, acting out movements with your entire body. It’s incredibly fun. I’ve had mine for about a year and a half, and I can’t stop playing it. It’s also a great fitness device — people are losing a lot of weight using it.

One of our first customers lost forty pounds in four months using the Omni One. We were also recently approved for people to purchase it using Health Savings Account funds, which means the medical community considers it a legitimate fitness and health device.

VGTimes: What VR headsets does Omni One work with?

Sergio Garcia: You can use Omni One with any PC-based VR headset. We ship it as a complete system with the Pico 4 Ultra Enterprise headset, but you can also buy just the treadmill and connect it to a Meta Quest, HTC, Valve headsets or any other PC-based headset. That means you can access almost your entire VR game library with Omni One.

You can run at full speed, jump, kneel, and crouch, and the system also tracks your health statistics.

VGTimes: What kind of data does it track?

Sergio Garcia: After you play, it tells you how many steps you’ve taken, how many miles that equals, and how many calories you’ve burned. We have power users who, in the past year, have taken over one million steps in their Omni, walked around eight hundred miles, and burned roughly five hundred thousand calories playing video games on the Omni One.

VGTimes: It looks like it could be dangerous. How does the system keep the player safely inside the platform? Using that arm that attaches to your back?

Sergio Garcia: Correct. The Omni One uses a very smart design — a low-friction concave surface. You wear your regular shoes and then put special covers over them. They have low-friction material, so you slide your feet over the base of the treadmill. There are no moving parts down there, so nothing breaks and nothing needs replacing. It’s a very simple design.

The arm is also very important. It allows you to lean into your walk or run, which makes movement feel natural. You can see how natural it looks when someone is walking or running on it.

VGTimes: Do games require special updates or modifications?

Sergio Garcia: We roll out software updates periodically. With Omni One, there are two options. One is the complete system, which ships with a customized Pico headset. We chose Pico because we can pre-install our operating software.

We also partner with game studios and work with them to port and optimize games for Omni One. Right now, there’s a library of around thirty-five games optimized for Omni One when you buy the complete system.

VGTimes: And if you buy only the treadmill?

Sergio Garcia: That’s the Omni One Core — just the treadmill. You use your own headset with it. With both systems, you can also play VR games outside of our optimized library, like Half-Life: Alyx or The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners.

VGTimes: What’s the price?

Sergio Garcia: There are two options. The complete system is $3,495 in the US, including the custom headset. The treadmill-only version is $2,595. Right now, we have a $300 discount using the code CES26, but that promotion may not be available later.

VGTimes: The system looks quite large. How do you store it?

Sergio Garcia: Omni One was designed for mainstream users. Out of the box, it takes about five minutes to set up because it’s mostly preassembled. It comes in three pieces: the base, the arm, and the vest.

For storage, it has wheels on one side, so you can lift one end and roll it to another part of the room. We’re also developing a storage solution that lets you store it on its side, including the arm and vest, so it fits into a closet or smaller space.

VGTimes: Thank you for the interview. Very interesting.

Article by Rodion Ilin and Fazil Dzhyndzholiia.

VGTimes has been operating since 2011 and during this time has attended dozens of exhibitions and festivals where our journalists gathered numerous exclusive materials. For example, in 2019 we attended a closed Cyberpunk 2077 showing at gamescom, in 2017 we prepared a photo report from WG Fest, in 2020 we were at Central Asia's largest gaming event CAGS, and we also visited "IgroMir" several times, where we saw Hideo Kojima and other famous developers. Last year, we traveled to the land of the rising sun for TGS 2024, where we were amazed by the scale of the event. And this year we saw with our own eyes one of Asia's major gaming exhibitions — ChinaJoy in Shanghai and gamescom asia in Bangkok.