WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.160 The whole point of VR is to transport you to other universes, but that's pretty hard 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:09.560 to do when getting sucked back into this one is as easy as- 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:10.560 Ah! 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:17.560 That's the problem Virtuix has been trying to solve since they first invited me to their 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:25.000 Seattle hotel room to show me their prototype 11 years ago, like, before Luke was called 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:29.000 Luke. Now, the road's been a little bumpy. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:33.760 They're a successful Kickstarter campaign that finally delivered the original Omni to 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:40.680 their backers. Years behind schedule, Virtuix immediately abandoned their efforts to build a consumer-friendly 00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:46.100 version and pivoted to working with commercial operators like Dave and Buster's instead. 00:00:46.100 --> 00:00:54.600 But now, they are back with a revamped version for end users dubbed the Omni One. 00:00:55.360 --> 00:01:00.280 Again, a few years behind schedule, but they made it. 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:05.040 And as someone who has made his fair share of years late products, I gotta say, I'm 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:12.680 proud of them for getting it across the finish line. The only question is, in a world where not even Apple can get people excited about VR, 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:17.440 does anyone still care? I know what they do care about. 00:01:17.440 --> 00:01:17.960 Our sponsor. 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:36.080 I gotta say, after my first go-through, it is way better than the last time I tried this. 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:43.760 Now, obviously, this is not a perfect solution by any stretch of the imagination, but compared 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.800 to every solution that I've seen before, you know, using your joystick to point you or 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:55.640 being in a very confined space or investing in an entire room with motion tracking paint 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.320 lines all over it and the game is designed to make sure that you don't accidentally 00:01:59.320 --> 00:02:02.320 run yourself into a wall. 00:02:02.320 --> 00:02:08.760 If you want mobility in VR and you don't mind paying in sweat, I was in there for eight 00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:13.800 minutes and, more importantly, I wanna go back in. 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.120 But first, let's take a step back. 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.240 The only one comes in two very heavy boxes, but aside from the weight, it is surprisingly 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.600 easy and intuitive to set up and take apart, which shows their experience as a B2B solutions 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:34.560 provider. Slide some things till they click and you've got this, a bowl, which we'll look at more 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:40.400 closely in a moment, and a kind of weird ARM-na-harness thing. 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:46.560 The ARM is height adjustable from 4 foot 4 inches to 6 foot 4 inches and the bowl can 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:52.800 handle up to 250 pounds, which, yes, includes jumping on it. 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:57.920 Overall, the thing feels shockingly quality for something that was at a science fair project 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:06.160 grade the last time that I saw it. The ARM articulates in three places and rotates around the base, locking and unlocking with 00:03:06.160 --> 00:03:12.320 this button right here. There's a knob up here that controls tension and for a beginner of my weight, they recommend 00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:19.160 setting the tension to three. This affects how much it supports you versus how much it gives you free movement. 00:03:19.160 --> 00:03:23.560 As for how it holds you up, the Omni-1 uses more of a backpack-like system with a waist 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:30.200 strap, chest strap and two shoulder straps that provide a shockingly robust and safe feeling 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:36.960 level of support. It can also be pulled apart and even have the stuffing removed for cleaning, which, uh, 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:42.280 it'll need. The base has wheels for rolling it around and the step conceals a little storage compartment 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:47.040 for any accessories you might need, like, I don't know, what is this, a scrubby pad for 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:51.880 the dish? They recommend cleaning this every single time before you use it. 00:03:51.880 --> 00:03:55.200 Not with the scrubby pad, but with a microfiber cloth that they included. 00:03:55.200 --> 00:04:00.480 They also have a monthly maintenance requirement where you take a little bit of oil or something 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:04.200 that they've included and you wipe it down with that scrubby pad. 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:08.440 Enough jibber jabber though. I want to play. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 00:04:08.440 --> 00:04:15.000 You need your shoe covers first. And while you figure those out, let's talk about the headset because it's not B-Y-O. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:21.320 The Pico 4e is the enterprise version of the Pico 4 from ByteDance, yes, that ByteDance. 00:04:21.320 --> 00:04:25.320 It's not the newest version of this headset that would go to the 4 Ultra, so this is more 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:29.280 of a Quest 2 competitor, which is to say, it's still a great headset. 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:35.400 It comes with a Snapdragon XR2 SoC, 8 gigabytes of RAM with 256 gigabytes of storage. 00:04:35.400 --> 00:04:40.920 Each eye gets a crisp 2160 by 2160 resolution, resulting in a 105 degree field of view that 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:45.160 refreshes it up to 90 hertz and looks great on the pancake lenses. 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:50.320 The headset also features a full color 16 megapixel pass-through camera, as well as 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:54.320 eye and face tracking cameras, something you won't find in the non-enterprise version. 00:04:54.320 --> 00:04:58.440 It comes with two controllers that can be summarized as copying Meta's homework and 00:04:58.440 --> 00:05:04.880 it comes in at 899 bucks, which is pretty expensive compared to the 400-ish Pico 4. 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:09.600 We say 400-ish because you can't get the Pico 4 direct in North America because of 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:14.280 TikTok versus USA type problems. So why did the company go with the enterprise version? 00:05:14.280 --> 00:05:19.640 Well, because they can put their own custom OS on this one, and that might be related 00:05:19.640 --> 00:05:22.720 as well to those TikTok problems that we talked about earlier. 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:29.240 But here's a quick summary of what that means for you. It means that everything works very smoothly with the treadmill, but the OS and more importantly, 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.960 the games library are limited. So it's going to come down to how good that game library is. 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:39.880 Well, I've got my shoes figured out. I settled on the medium size and it's pretty intuitive. 00:05:39.880 --> 00:05:44.880 It just straps on a little something like that, straps over the top, a little something 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:51.320 like that. And this is cool. They actually got this little flippy thing on the bottom so you can have your grip and 00:05:51.320 --> 00:05:56.680 also your slip. Oh, and at the top, there's these little clips for the foot trackers. 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:58.680 Eh. Eh. 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.200 Appropriately, the tutorial is called First Steps. 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:06.200 Okay. He's unlocked, boys. 00:06:06.200 --> 00:06:10.200 Oh, let's go, buddy. 00:06:10.200 --> 00:06:13.640 Hey, look, there's another one. 00:06:13.640 --> 00:06:16.920 This is exactly the kind of home that I would imagine somebody having the space for one 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.040 of these to have. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:27.040 I am not walking. Let's just reboot it because there's some walkiness sometimes with their software. 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.400 Okay. I'm sweating. We have a towel. 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:33.400 Yeah. And another shirt. LTTstore.com. 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:36.520 Okay. Now it's working. 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:39.520 Let's go. Ooh. Okay. 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:43.000 And if you try running, you will go faster. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.960 No, this way. Here we go. 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:50.760 Let's go. Can I just play a game now? Is this co-op? 00:06:50.760 --> 00:06:55.200 Yeah. So a lot of the games that come with the Omni are what Virtuex would put in their Omni 00:06:55.200 --> 00:07:01.320 arena. They're like arcade game stuff. So this would be like, oh, you'd have four of your friends and you'd go to the arcade 00:07:01.320 --> 00:07:09.040 and you'd all play this game together. Sick. You can play online, though the install base isn't very big right now. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.600 I cannot not make the leaderboard here. 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:17.480 There's four players on the leaderboard, one of which is Virtuex Dev Cam 1. 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:22.880 All right, let's go, boys. 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:28.440 See you would think when you step, you know, that you move that direction, but the direction 00:07:28.440 --> 00:07:32.440 is actually determined by the ARM. Oh, hello. 00:07:32.440 --> 00:07:36.640 All right, let's go. Whoa, hi there. 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:40.640 Whoa, hey. Oh, boom, boom. 00:07:40.640 --> 00:07:43.880 Get out of here. Get out of here. 00:07:43.880 --> 00:07:47.240 Go on, go on, get it. You got to escape the toxic area. 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.240 No, I can get out of the toxic, get out of the toxic area, dang it. 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.240 Okay, save zone. Here we go. 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:58.240 I am freaking sweating, brother. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.240 Whoa, okay. Oh, you okay? 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:07.240 Oh, yeah. It's a flawed solution to a problem with no perfect solution. 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:14.240 You know what I mean? Like I fell off at once already, which is not the best endorsement. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.240 What the heck is the rest of my, oh my God. 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:21.240 Geez. You throw stuff at you. 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.240 This is ridiculous, but I think, oh boy. 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:29.240 Come on, come on, come on. 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:34.240 Bring it on, juggernaut. Whoa, come on, go back. 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:40.240 The responsiveness definitely leaves a little bit to be desired. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:43.240 Extraction zone. 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:48.240 I survived. I noticed this is not the world's best headset. 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:53.240 I actually got a little bit of nausea just walking around using pasta in it before, 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:57.240 but as soon as I got into that zombie experience before, 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:00.240 I forgot about the nausea. All right, what am I trying now? 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:05.240 Hyperblast, you're playing hyperblast. Hyperblast, gauntlet of champions. 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:08.240 You need to set a time because we're going to have staff members try and beat it. 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.240 Whoa, he's going bronze. 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.240 What do you mean bronze? 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.240 This is friggin' hard. Check point. 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:20.240 Here we go. Silver. Oh God. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:25.240 Okay. Oh man. Oh my God. 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.240 9,300 points. New high score. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.240 Let's go. You're 31st in the world. 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:38.240 You're only 21 behind circumference. 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.240 Okay, one more try, one more try. Here we go. 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.240 I got this. Off to a good start. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.240 Come on. Get over here. Boy. 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:50.240 No, I'm fine. Looking pretty good. Going for gold. 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.240 Come on. Where you at? 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:56.240 Check point. Boom. Silver. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.240 Okay. 13,000 points. Yo, is that enough to beat circumference? 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:04.240 Oh. Dang it. He's beating you by 1,000. 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.240 If there's one thing you can expect from Linus, it's getting too into a game. 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:14.240 Too competitive. I'm tempted to do another run, but when I say run, I mean it kind of literally. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:18.240 This thing's freaking tiring. Yeah, let's talk about that. 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:25.240 It's more difficult to walk on the Omni for three reasons. Since you're always placing your foot up on the lip, you're always walking uphill. 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:29.240 And in real life, when you're walking around, you're basically just falling forward and 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:33.240 catching yourself. And you use that momentum from one step to the next. 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.240 You don't have any momentum on this thing because you're not actually moving. 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:42.900 And the other part is that there's friction. There's a lot less effort required to move your foot through the air compared to dragging 00:10:42.900 --> 00:10:46.240 it on a surface, even if they do come with those slippy shoes. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.240 So you end up getting really tired just doing the basic activity. 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:55.240 Oh, before you take it off, I just want to try something. This base is only 150 pounds. 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.640 Yeah. Can you like eat hard enough that it's going to tip? 00:10:58.640 --> 00:11:03.240 Like how stable is it? Like just try like jumping off in a direction. 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:09.240 I'd say you'd have to have a pretty strong intent. 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.240 Yeah. You really want to accidentally remove yourself from this thing. 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.240 You know, like, yeah, good to know. I just want to check that because we're going to get a bunch of different staff to try it out. 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:24.240 Oh, cool. Yeah. Reese, he's a tall boy and I wanted to see, what do you mean? 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:27.240 I think you were like 90th percentile in height. 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.240 How tall are you, Maria? 1.55 centimeters. 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:32.240 Do the math. Yeah. 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:37.240 I'm a little nervous. I am 70 pounds over what this should hold. 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.240 Yeah. This tag is rated to support 250 pounds. 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.240 Which means I am 320 pounds. 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.240 Well, for those math fans out there. 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.240 Technically, it's out of spec, but your overspec for this machine is the issue. 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:53.240 How much experience do you have with VR? I own a Quest 3. 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:56.240 Do you use it a lot? Fair enough. 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.240 Okay. Cool. What kind of games do you play? 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.240 Fun games. I own a VR at home. 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:06.240 Okay. My first Quest. I had the CV one. 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:09.240 Oh, wow. And then it ended there. 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.240 Oh, my God. Okay. Oh, this feels so normal. 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:17.240 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.240 Oh, my God. This is so difficult. 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.240 Oh, my God. 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:31.240 That didn't feel good at all. 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:38.240 I feel a lot of pressure, like from the thing, like that pulls me backwards. 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:42.240 You're going to try and run through a level as fast as you can. We're going to do the first level. 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:49.240 You're doing great. I feel like it. 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:55.240 Honestly, the tiny steps seem to be making you a faster than the bigger steps. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.240 Go, go, go. Okay, you're doing great. 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:08.240 Yeah, the pulling towards the side. It's so difficult. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.240 Oh, my God. 8,400 points. Is that good? 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.240 No. 13,000. Yeah, I forget that. 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.240 Yeah, you did it. Oh, my God. No. 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:21.240 You did not get the best score. Of course. You could try again if you want. 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.240 I feel if I go again, I will throw up. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.240 Reality is so much better. There you go. 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:28.240 Yeah, okay. 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.240 How did somebody get so many points? So what are your impressions? 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:36.240 How did that feel? My feet hurt. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:40.240 I don't know why. The experience was very difficult for me because of the pulling. 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.240 Yeah. I'm tired. 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:47.240 Those tiny steps are, you know, like I'm already, I'm obviously out of shape, 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:54.240 but this is really awkward. It looks very, you know, so it feels like I'm going to fall forward. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.240 It didn't seem like it was struggling at all. With me. 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:00.240 Yeah. It was somewhat of like your size. So like that's great to see. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.240 Do you want to know how much it costs? I want to know, yes. $2,600 US. 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:08.240 You get the base and you get a VR headset plus the controllers. 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:12.240 It's a lot, but compared to a treadmill or like a peloton, that's. 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.240 It's like comparable. Yeah. Yeah. 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.240 That's an exercise machine that's actually kind of sick. Yeah. Like I would buy this over a treadmill. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.240 Would I buy it? No. 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.240 But you probably wouldn't buy one. No. 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:27.240 Would I spend the money on it? Probably not. Thanks for coming out and trying it. 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:41.240 Yeah, this is actually kind of fun. Now that a few staff have tried it, we kind of see that even though they technically support short people all the way down to four foot four, Maria had like a lot of issues with being dragged back by the ARM, even in the lightest support setting. 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:50.240 And that means that if you're close to the margins of who this supports, then maybe this isn't exactly for you, which is honestly a good question in its own right. 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:58.240 Who is this for? Hardcore VR enthusiasts, sure, but I doubt that many would want to pay for the bundled headset. 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:06.240 And again, you can't bring your own. While I understand that the company is interested in making this easy to use, I bet your VR enthusiasts wouldn't mind tinkering. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:15.240 And the company plans on offering SteamVR support, but at this point it's unclear how well that will work and how much support we'll see from developers for this device specifically. 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:23.240 And even then, the headset you do get is held back by the custom OS, making the upside of the VR headset included comment a little bit less compelling. 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:29.240 And it's kind of big. Sure, the size trade-off comes with the peace of mind of knowing that you're not going to run into any furniture. 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:33.240 And if you want to run, well, this treadmill is the only option. 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:39.240 And also an apt name, because I think the strongest argument for this is as a fitness machine. 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:44.240 There are lots of people who will spend thousands on equipment that they only use maybe a handful of hours a week. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:51.240 And if your biggest obstacle to improving your health at home is a lack of fun, well, this could be a great solution. 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:54.240 Did your normal treadmill come with the VR headset? I didn't think so. 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.240 It probably didn't even come with a segue to our sponsor. 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:04.240 Let's see how it's progressed.