The standard way to do this — used by Oculus and Sony — is to put LEDs or some other set of markers on the headset, then track them with an external camera. This kind of positional tracking is ...

[WayneKeenan] wrote a proof-of-concept virtual reality system that used a Raspberry Pi and an Oculus Rift. It was about a thousand lines of Python and with a battery pack it was even portable.

Imagine what it would be like to swap bodies with someone. It's not possible just yet, but thanks to the Oculus Rift, first-person cameras, and an experiment called Gender Swap, you can actually ...