Of the articles above, only Tomshardware even tested roomscale.
Re:Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down
by dkonofalski on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:34PM
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I don't think it's that binary. The quotes are misleading because no one actually tested room-scale VR with the Rift except for Tom's and, of those that did, they tested it with the 3 camera setup that's not the standard config for it.
Or what you've heard is from Valve fanboys and these quotes are true. What I've heard suggests that it's this way, so .. we're stuck.