More heavy reading for you today, this time from the technically-crazy John Carmack of id Software.

Most of you know he's essentially charged with creating the first-person shooter, is amazing with software engines and in his spare time likes to dabble in designing rockets. But what you might not know is that he took a few extra months of tinkering time recently, this time to look at the state of head-mounted displays for games, after wondering why the technology floundered at the end of the 90s. Thankfully AusGamers was invited to sit down with the legendary designer and talk HMD shop before getting a taste of what he'd cooked up in his lab with an actual gameplay hands-on, eyes-in demo.

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