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

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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 ... 
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