Jan Goetgeluk - Founder and CEO of Virtuix: Revolutionizing VR with the Omni (Ep. 72)

From Viral Demo to VR Hardware: Jan Goetgeluk on Building the Virtuix Omni

VR, Virtuix Omni, omnidirectional treadmill, Kickstarter success, hardware startup lessons. Founder & CEO Jan Goetgeluk shares how a viral demo and a $1.1M Kickstarter lit the fuse for Virtuix—and what it really takes to design, fund, and scale a hardware company in a fast-moving market.

🚀 What You’ll Learn

• How the Omni lets users walk/run 360° in VR (and why that matters)
• The real design timeline (6–7 months) and early engineering tradeoffs
• Kickstarter → equity crowdfunding: capital + community (and hidden challenges)
• Pivoting from consumer to commercial ...