Virtuix’s Omni whatchamacallit looks a little like a Star Trek transporter pad with a handrail. The rail sits up close, circling your abdomen like a belt, keeping you centered and upright as you move.

The Oculus Rift, a $599 virtual reality headset, is an impressive piece of technology, but not something that's within reach of everyone. For one thing, it requires a very powerful Windows PC to run.

Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus virtual reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US, Business Insider has learned. The scaling back of Facebook’s first big retail push ...

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