This guy is cycling through the UK in VR from his living room...

Virtual Reality is going to do some wondrous and amazing things in the coming months and years and you can see the beginning of these ideas today.

For example one fellow was getting bored sitting on his treadmill everyday staring at a wall and decided he'd rig up a system to combine Google Street View with VR using a Galaxy Gear. The result is a system that lets him 'cycle' the length of the UK.

Here's the start of the journey.