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Inspiring
December 5, 2016
Question

Virtuix Omni - is this a joke??????

Just got an email saying that Virtuix will only be supplying the omni to U.S. Buyers and will be refunding international buyers!!!!

that is the worst news!!!!

    23 replies

    Up and Coming
    December 9, 2016
    I wanted to pre-order this for FPS games, but they are only ramping up to delivering 1000 units per month and have a backlog of around 15,000 kickstarters/pre-orders and that means you would receive one until 2018.  Plus, they closed pre-orders entirely which is fair, considering they know they can't deliver new orders for a year.  Shame - it looks awesome!
    Rift-S, Quest 128GB, GO 64GB.
    Inspiring
    December 9, 2016

    DannyMNL said:

    But very classy of them to offer interest over the time that they had customers' funds in their posession. 



    Not when those customers paid $499 or $699 for their preorders, and Virtuix had raised the price to $999 before they stopped taking preordets, while making a big deal at the time about what a good price the early preorder customers had got on their orders.

    As for game support, it emulates a keyboard and Xbox controller, or you can directly access the data with thier own SDK. But who's going to develop games for it when they've just slashed most of the world out of their market?

    All of the treadmill manufacturers seem to be chasing the Chinese VR arcade market, but there isn't enough of a market there to sustain many of them.
    Inspiring
    December 9, 2016
    what a waste of money, rather save that and put it towards the next pc for CV2 or an earlier 1080ti build.
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