alt Hacker NewsI've heard this called a "dancing bear" before. It's interesting because it's a bear dancing, not because the dancing is any good.
These conversations get frustrating since one group is saying the dancing is bad, a second group is saying it's good (for a bear), and a third group is saying we are a few years from a bear-only dancing industry.
The hype train the caught me was VR. I'm reminded of the Microsoft Hololens. It was an incredible feat of engineering. At the same time, it was--at times, literally--a painful experience.
There was a vision of the Hololens being a general purpose compute device that enabled something more like the power of a desktop without being tethered to a sitting position at a desk. You could see it if you squinted hard (incidentally, the device caused a lot of eye strain). But even at the height of the VR hype cycle, I didn't know anyone pushing the Hololens on anyone. Nobody was telling the world they were going to be using Hololenses v1 or v2 as their only computer "or get left behind."