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The first consumer Oculus Rift shipped in late March 2016 and the HTC Vive, with room-scale tracking and motion controllers, arrived days later. Working virtual reality was on sale after decades of false starts.
The technical argument about whether comfortable consumer virtual reality was possible ended, and the commercial argument began. Room-scale tracking with hand controllers, introduced here, became the standard interface for the medium and remains the layout every subsequent headset has followed.
Valve's portable ran a Linux-based system with a compatibility layer that plays Windows games, making large existing computer libraries genuinely mobile. A wave of competing handheld gaming computers followed.
Personal computer gaming became portable without a separate library, subscription or ecosystem. The compatibility work involved also made Linux a practical platform for playing Windows games, reducing a dependency that had shaped computer gaming for a quarter of a century.
