Device intended and arranged as a haptic VR simulation device for a user, with which the user, under the control of pressure exerted by the user as detected by detection means, is able to displace, walking or cycling, on a treadmill through a virtual environment as displayed by a VR control system and VR display means, the treadmill having a physically movable unidirectional running deck, powered by running deck drive means, under the control of a treadmill control system, wherein the detection means comprises a control member, further characterised by: which is functionally and essentially provided with such a shape, that in use of the device when the user is located on the running deck, the control member extends in front of the user and at least partly to the side of the user, wherein the control member is coupled to a rotational pressure sensor, which is arranged for detecting the rotational pressure on the control member counter clockwise or clockwise around a substantially vertical axis of rotation of the control member, and wherein the control member is coupled to one or more transverse pressure sensors, which are arranged to detect transverse pressure on the control member forward or rearward and in other directions, transverse to the essentially vertical axis of rotation of the control member, wherein the rotational pressure sensors and one or more transverse pressure sensors are coupled to the VR control system and to the treadmill control system, all this arranged in such a way that - if the user exerts a forward or rearward pressure on the control member, the running deck is moved rearward or forward, respectively, by an amount depending on the amount of pressure applied to the control member; - if the user additionally exerts on the control member a rotational pressure, or a transverse pressure to the right or to the left, the VR control system moves the virtual environment displayed in the VR display means to the left or to the right, respectively, by an amount depending on the amount of pressure applied to the control member. wherein the detection means comprises a control member, further characterised by: which is functionally and essentially provided with such a shape, that in use of the device when the user is located on the running deck, the control member extends in front of the user and at least partly to the side of the user, wherein the control member is coupled to a rotational pressure sensor, which is arranged for detecting the rotational pressure on the control member counter clockwise or clockwise around a substantially vertical axis of rotation of the control member, and wherein the control member is coupled to one or more transverse pressure sensors, which are arranged to detect transverse pressure on the control member forward or rearward and in other directions, transverse to the essentially vertical axis of rotation of the control member, wherein the rotational pressure sensors and one or more transverse pressure sensors are coupled to the VR control system and to the treadmill control system, all this arranged in such a way that - if the user exerts a forward or rearward pressure on the control member, the running deck is moved rearward or forward, respectively, by an amount depending on the amount of pressure applied to the control member; - if the user additionally exerts on the control member a rotational pressure, or a transverse pressure to the right or to the left, the VR control system moves the virtual environment displayed in the VR display means to the left or to the right, respectively, by an amount depending on the amount of pressure applied to the control member. - if the user exerts a forward or rearward pressure on the control member, the running deck is moved rearward or forward, respectively, by an amount depending on the amount of pressure applied to the control member; - if the user additionally exerts on the control member a rotational pressure, or a transverse pressure to the right or to the left, the VR control system moves the virtual environment displayed in the VR display means to the left or to the right, respectively, by an amount depending on the amount of pressure applied to the control member.