DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won't want to

Virtual reality is in a bit of a weird place right now. After a lot of unfulfilled promise in the 1990s, it came back strong with the 2016 release of the Oculus Rift . For a while, it looked like VR, AR, XR, the metaverse, or whatever you wanted to call it, was going to be huge.