• Jimius@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 days ago

    Other examples are drone deliveries. Was supposed to be the next big thing, but even more than 15 years later most companies are gone. And mainstream drone delivery is not a thing.

    Or take AR/VR glasses. Supposed to revolutionize how we work. But in practice it’s mostly used to play games. First Google Glass and then the Apple Vision Pro gathered quite some attention but is already mostly forgotten. The VR space is still thriving, it’s just not the paradigm shifting technology the early investors wanted it to be. Facebook’s Metaverse cost 36 billion dollars and was a complete flop.