Austin-based Virtuix Holdings (NASDAQ: VTIX), the maker of the Omni One VR treadmill, will show its AI-enabled Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) Personnel Trainer to US Army and Joint leaders at the Maneuver Warfighter Conference at Fort Moore, Georgia, on September 15-17 — its most visible defence pitch yet after a year of low-profile pilots.
Full-body movement, virtual drone hunt
Developed with partner LeadTech, the C-UAS Personnel Trainer stitches Omni One's omni-directional treadmill to AI-generated scenarios so warfighters can maneuver naturally through digital-twin ranges and rehearse detecting and defeating hostile drones under realistic marksmanship conditions. Unlike static VR trainers, the platform is designed to be reused as new drone threat profiles emerge, giving trainers a way to bring FPV-style attackers, autonomous swarms and even suicide UAVs into rehearsals without hazarding real airspace.
Programs across all four branches
Virtuix arrives at Fort Moore off announcements involving every major US military service. In May, it won AFWERX SBIR Phase I funding from the US Air Force for its Virtual Terrain Walk. USMC's Training and Education Command, through prime KBR, tapped Virtuix as lead integrator on a four-Omni-One infantry fireteam trainer, and Omni One is now deployed with the US Air Force Academy, West Point, Air National Guard and Yokota Air Base, alongside a CRADA with the US Navy. The C-UAS Personnel Trainer itself is being evaluated by USMC TECOM at Quantico.
Counter-drone gets its own training stack
The demo lands as the Pentagon reprioritises counter-drone spend after a year of asymmetric drone attacks abroad, alongside AITAN's $41M defence round, Airbility's counter-UAS interceptors, and Neros Technologies' $250M Series C for Archer AI and Bandit. Virtuix's bet is that the training layer — realistic, repeatable, cheaper than live-fire — is a separate market from the interceptor itself.
What Jan Goetgeluk said
"Counter-UAS training is an increasingly important requirement for modern military forces," said Jan Goetgeluk, Virtuix's founder, chairman and CEO. "Virtuix's ability to bring full-body movement into realistic simulation environments creates a compelling training capability." LeadTech, whose C-sUAS moving-target trainer evolved from a robotic target system built for USMC Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico, has already field-tested the platform at Camp Pendleton and at the Angelelli counter-drone training center in Pisa, Italy.
Reporting based on Virtuix's GlobeNewswire release and coverage from defence industry outlets.