What year should we consider the dawn of gaming?

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It's 1958, no point rewriting history by altering definitions

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200810/physicshistory.cfm

October 1958: Physicist Invents First Video Game

VR started in 1968 with The Sword of Damocles.

The first movie is also not the train driving to the camera (1896), it was actually in 1888, Roundhay Garden Scene.

Dawn is before sunrise, the rise of video games indeed starts with Pong.