Oh, man, have you ever tripped over some news that’s both kind of sad and, I don’t know, quirky all at once? Well, here’s one for you: Cybershoes. Yeah, those weird, roller-shoe things for VR. Poof! Gone. Just like that. They’ve packed up shop, locked the doors, and said goodbye.
So, imagine hearing this from good ol’ Antony ‘Skarred Ghost’ Vitillo. That guy’s a real trip — he’s been saying Cybershoes stopped making stuff two years ago! I mean, two years? Talk about flying under the radar. And, like, bam, April 2025 rolls around, and the Austrian HQ calls it quits. April showers bring… companies folding?
Now, Igor Mitric Lavovski — one of the brains behind Cybershoes — confirms through a casual LinkedIn post that the company is as done as a burnt toast. Austrian laws? They get kind of dicey, especially when you talk about insolvency. Can they bounce back? Maybe. Or maybe not. They’ve got about 60 days to figure that out, according to some insolvency expert I probably wouldn’t understand even if I tried.
Now, here’s the kicker — remember how VR treadmills are supposed to be all slick with their fancy bases and glide-y shoes? Forget that! We’re talking about sitting down and strapping these roller things on your feet. Sounds like a Saturday night experiment gone slightly right, then very wrong. Anyway — wait, where was I? Oh yeah, Cybershoes.
Back in 2018, they managed to grab over €200k off Kickstarter! I mean, who saw that coming? That’s a whole lotta folks putting faith in roller shoes. IndieGogo followed, and whoa — another €140k from 500 backers. They were on a roll (no pun intended), building hopes and awareness or whatever. But then 2020 hit, and they did a Quest-compatible version, and it didn’t exactly set the world on fire. Only $98k this time. Hmm, what happened there?
Fast forward to now, and everything’s just off the shelves, vanished, like an ice cube on a summer sidewalk. The Amazon price tracker, CamelCamelCamel — yes, that’s a real thing — says the last of them disappeared late in 2024. I always kind of ignored those alerts, but maybe I should’ve paid more attention? Ah well.
So there you have it. Cybershoes — a wild ride that somehow ended up just being… over. Not exactly the ending anyone expected, I guess. Life, right? Spoils the plot when you least expect it.
