VR treadmill firm Virtuix launched a crowd-based funding marketing campaign late final 12 months to additional scale Omni One, its consumer-focused VR locomotion machine. Now, the marketing campaign’s second part (Sequence B-2) has come to an finish, garnering the corporate over $3 million.
The corporate’s Sequence B-2 spherical has come to an in depth, which supplied Sequence B Most well-liked Inventory to buyers through crowd-based platform StartEngine, making for a complete of $3,272,865 raised from over 1,300 buyers. Total, this places its complete Sequence B spherical at over $18 million raised.
Whereas Omni One is essentially pitched as an at-home client machine, replete with non-compulsory Pico 4E headset for $3,495, its newest spherical can also be positioning Omni One as a possible platform for army coaching applications with the launch of Omni Mission Coach (OMT), a army coaching system.
Created in collaboration with the U.S. Air Pressure, Virtuix OMT is designed to permit troopers transfer bodily in 360 levels inside lifelike VR environments whereas carrying their precise weapons, gear, and tools, which incorporates team-based coaching for 12+ troopers.
With its newest funding spherical now full, Virtuix can also be now boasting a $201.13 million valuation, which is partially based mostly on its pre-IPO inventory worth—presently valued at $6.22 per share. Notably, as a privately held firm, Virtuix inventory shouldn’t be publicly traded on main exchanges.
Based in 2013, Virtuix initially began its journey on Kickstarter with the launch of the unique Omni, occurring to lift $1.1 million from backers. Since then, the corporate has attracted over $40 million in funding from main buyers resembling Mark Cuban, Maveron, & Scout Ventures.
Too boot, the corporate says it has now bought over $18 million price of merchandise to main firms resembling Dave & Buster’s, and presently has over 400,000 registered gamers thus far. Moreover, Virtuix says its manufacturing facility can produce “as much as 3,000 Omni One models a month.”
