What is this interesting contraption?

Simple.

Meet the Holodeck v1.0, the future in Virtual Reality. Estimated to cost approximately $999 at release, the Holodeck is the glorious combination of technology from the long awaited Oculus Rift, Virtuix, and Virtual World Web.

Virtuix’s Omni Treadmill and software from VWW combine to create the perfect set up for a fully immersive Virtual Reality experience, don your soon to be released Oculus Rift and escape into a different world right in your living room.

Although the release date and price have yet to be officially announced, the creators of the Holodeck have promised the inclusion of the finished, retail-ready Oculus Rift.  With Brian Shuster, CEO at VWW assuring interviewers that the product will launch at $999 summer of 2014, it doesn’t take much to subtract the Omni Treadmill’s $499 to realize that the OR will be estimated to cost $499 or less.

Although the OR is still the heaviest awaited VR product, the upcoming “Virtual Reality War will be great for the industry” Says Forbes magazine’s latest web article on the trend.

“Sony debuted their long-awaited VR headset at GDC last night tentatively called ‘Project Morpheus’. The device instantly gives credence to the not-even-out-yet Oculus Rift, and shows that Sony is forward thinking enough to realize that despite the fact that commercially available VR doesn’t exist yet, it will soon, and it could change the entire industry.”

With well-respected console maker  Sony entering the competition, it isn’t hard to believe that the future of Virtual Reality is something to look forward to. Whether it will permanently impact the gaming industry, or technology in general, or become the gimmicky successor to motion-centric devices, has yet to be determined, but the odds do seem to be in the industry’s favor.