[wpietri]

For sure. if it is in the plateau phase, it seems to me it has plateaued at a very low level. And indeed, I think the hype cycle chart is misleading, in that it suggests that all hyped technologies eventually have productivity that approaches the hype. But things like jet packs, undersea living, and flying cars all had periods of hype and never went anywhere. Or more prosaically, 3D TV was intensely hyped and then vanished like it had been covered up by the Illuminati.

I think the lack of XR adoption is especially obvious given the pandemic. Remote working? Video calls? Ubiquitous. People snapped up a ton of Switches early on, and then it's been PS5s that nobody could get enough of. But VR? I know a lot of game players from 13 on up, but I don't know anybody for whom facehugger VR is a daily driver.