[s_q_b]

After a few years around Gartner, Deloitte, and Accenture I have learned that consulting reports are usually PR thinly disguised as analysis.

[AtheistOfFail]

There's plenty of things in this industry that are PR disguised as analysis.

Look at security breakdowns of security flaws from outside firms that end with 'you don't want to get fucked by this, buy our services'

[pj_mukh]

Mmm hmm[1]. Though this article is decidedly bearish on VR.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[Blank_Blank]

This is ofter quite true. However have you read this thing? It's a pretty good balanced analysis. Also I think they anonymise vendor names to avoid promoting one vendor over the other

[lowglow]

If it's free, it's selling you something.

[simonh]

But if what it's selling you is a good impression of the depth and quality of the author's analysis, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've not read it in detail, so I can't give any view on that.

[amelius]

They're probably trying to sell a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[jordache]

You oughta extract some semblance of narrative from all the work put into powerpoint slides for clients