Although 2016 was billed as "the year of VR" due to the retail releases of the long-awaited Oculus Rift and HTC Vive virtual reality systems, many people still questioned whether VR was just a fad. After all, virtually every game or experience available for both systems are small projects from small independent developers that often feel more like tech demos than full games. Well, after E3, I think we can lay those fears to rest.

I'm an early adopter of VR, so I've believed in the promise of VR for a long time. But even I figured we wouldn't see any VR games from major game developers before 2018. The optimist in me hoped maybe we'd see some VR stuff teased at E3, but what we got was beyond my wildest expectations.