--- title: This Treadmill Lets You Walk In Any Direction description: And you might be able to hook it up to virtual reality canonical: https://time.com/4177180/treadmill-virtual-reality-direction/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-12T17:46:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:38.209Z og:title: This Treadmill Lets You Walk In Any Direction og:description: And you might be able to hook it up to virtual reality og:url: https://time.com/4177180/treadmill-virtual-reality-direction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Treadmill Lets You Walk In Any Direction twitter:description: And you might be able to hook it up to virtual reality twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Treadmill Lets You Walk In Any Direction by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 12, 2016 5:46 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 12, 2016 5:46 PM UTC There are a few truisms about the gym: Justin Bieber is always blaring, someone forgot to wipe down the elliptical, and the treadmill only goes in one direction. At least one of those gym facts is about to change, though, thanks to the Infinadeck, an omni-directional treadmill that lets users walk in any direction. [**MORE: 7 Fitness Trends to Try in 2016**](http://7 Fitness Trends to Try in 2016) The [Infinadeck](http://infinadeck.com/) is the brainchild of George Burger who originally unveiled the newfangled treadmill back in 2014\. A reconfigured, slimmed down, and quieter version was given a full CES debut this year. While it’s still in development, people already have big plans for the Infinadeck’s future, including hooking it up to Virtual Reality gaming systems. That could mean that when you are running for your life in _Edge of Nowhere_ on Oculus Rift or battling it out on Project Morpheus’s _EVE: Valkyrie,_ you could actually get a cardio workout. That’s big news for immersive gaming, as well as for people who simply hate to exercise. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4177180/treadmill-virtual-reality-direction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4177180/treadmill-virtual-reality-direction/"},"headline":"This Treadmill Lets You Walk In Any Direction","datePublished":"2016-01-12T17:46:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:38.209Z","description":"And you might be able to hook it up to virtual reality","url":"https://time.com/4177180/treadmill-virtual-reality-direction/","keywords":["Newsfeed","CES","fitness","Exercise","Technology","Gaming","health","Virtual Reality","cloud","gym"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4177180/treadmill-virtual-reality-direction/","name":"This Treadmill Lets You Walk In Any Direction"}}]}] ```