John Carmack is building a virtual reality headset

More awesomeness from John Carmack. He's fed up of all the existing VR headsets sucking so much, so is building his own.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/john-carmack-is-making-a-virtual-reality-headset-500-kits-available-soon-video-interview-inside/

VR has long had a pretty bad reputation, but it would be incredible to have a decent, affordable headset with support from the games industry.

His rocket was awesome.

Blah, I didn't notice there was a front-page news item about this. Oh well.