Adventure At The Touch Of A Button

Today’s treadmill exercises can feel extremely boring. With music and videos as our only option, walking or running on a treadmill can feel monotonous and isolating, which makes staying motivated even more difficult.

It's time to give your treadmill workout a destination.

Walkers and runners can now download Octonic onto their mobile VR headsets, including currently on the Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro and soon on Apple’s new XR headset, and exercise in virtual environments either solo, or with friends, AI bots, or other walkers and runners from around the world. Octonic’s system includes a content platform to access VR worlds, a VR social hub for private group races with friends or public competitors, and a performance board that allows runners to track their runs. 

Octonic works with 99% of treadmills on the market in non-connected mode, where runners can adjust the physical treadmill's speed manually, utilizing a passthrough viewbox. The app also links with 40 treadmill brands in connected mode, allowing for full control over physical treadmills (start/stop, speed, etc.) from VR through Bluetooth connectivity. Octonic's Motion Engine precisely matches the physical treadmill speed with the VR speed, greatly mitigating motion sickness risk and empowering complete immersion.

Additionally, in collaboration with longstanding partner, NoblePro (the leading UK smart treadmill manufacturer), Octonic VR has created VR treadmill replicas of NoblePro treadmills, precisely calibrating in-headset treadmill visuals with the real thing, including handrails and the moving belt. So when people reach out to their virtual treadmills, they will touch their real NoblePro treadmills in complete synchronicity, creating what we believe to be the first-ever integrated VR fitness treadmill.

Octonic’s 3-level proprietary safety system makes VR treadmill running as safe as non-VR running. Its safety features include positional awareness to give runners real-time info about their position on the treadmill belt, a departure warning system that gives runners visual and audio cues if they leave the safety zone, and a passthrough feature that gives runners the option to switch out of virtual reality and into a passthrough view of the real world with the simple press of a button in their VR controls.

In additional to the treadmill mode, Octonic offers a non-treadmill mode that allows runners without treadmills to exercise using the app. To make this happen, Octonic VR developed a Motion Engine feature that tracks runners' movements and adjusts their speed on the virtual running trail automatically. Runners also have the flexibility to enter the same library of virtual running trails available in treadmill mode. And for those moments when runners can use a treadmill, they can easily change modes within the app.

Combining Three Growing Markets

Running Around The World And Beyond

Octonic VR’s software has the potential to completely change the way people workout and the way people view the treadmill. And with Apple entering the VR market and supercharging the industry, now is potentially as good a time as ever to invest.

The company currently offers multiplayer running sessions for up to eight people and is working on building a social hub for runners. Octonic has also produced nine worlds and continues to add to its library of worlds every month, offering a variety of options that cater to a wide variety of consumers, whether they are fitness enthusiasts, gamers, or recreational VR users. Currently, Octonic is in discussions to partner with gyms and rehabilitation centers to offer Octonic to the centers’ customers for use with their treadmill equipment. As part of this offering, they are developing an in-app feature that allows fitness trainers to lead group exercise sessions. Besides treadmills, Octonic plans to expand the brand to include bikes, rowing machines, elliptical machines, and more. 

The company's team also has unique knowledge of VR treadmill technology, after having built motion simulators for several years, which gives them esoteric insights into building their software. This makes it difficult for new market entrants to develop a competitive technology, thus giving Octonic a first-mover competitive advantage.

*The above graphic depicts product specifications for VR headsets that are or are anticipated to be compatible with Octonic's software. The Apple VR Headset does not have compatibility with Octonic's software at this time.

We believe the company is well-positioned to capitalize as VR technology advances. This year alone has seen the announcements of highly anticipated headsets like Apple’s new XR headset, the Meta Quest 3, and the HTC Vive XR Elite. These new headsets will be smaller, lighter, and potentially more powerful in performance, so consumers will be able to exercise in comfort while experiencing increasingly realistic visuals. 

And moving forward, Octonic's team is ready to raise their game even further for upcoming headsets, as well as for consumer AR glasses that will be released in the coming years.

As it stands, they've already maximized the current technology's limits to achieve photorealistic worlds.

Overall, the health and fitness space has been slow to innovate, while VR Fitness is a success story with applications like Beat Saber and SuperNatural driving VR adoption. Fitness equipment brands and gyms need a new hero product and Octonic is intensely focused on addressing this need. Join us, and let runners experience Octonic's virtual worlds and inspire their personal best, without leaving their home or gym!

*The above testimonials may not be representative of the opinions or of the experiences of other customers and is not a guarantee of future performance or success.