Somebody develops something, gets a lot of buzz, doesn't deliver, buzz dies slowly, and then several years in the future somebody else actually builds the tech stack needed for it, and it takes off again.
Voice assistance, chat robots [1]... the metaverse.
[1] Several years back I attended a chat in my city where some people from IBM showed us how to implement a chatbot I think with Watson.
Beyond the trivial examples, it was nearly impossible to implement anything (Or the people giving the chat didn't know how to implement those) but the documentation was nowhere to be found beyond those trivial examples.
Somebody develops something, gets a lot of buzz, doesn't deliver, buzz dies slowly, and then several years in the future somebody else actually builds the tech stack needed for it, and it takes off again.
Voice assistance, chat robots [1]... the metaverse.
[1] Several years back I attended a chat in my city where some people from IBM showed us how to implement a chatbot I think with Watson.
Beyond the trivial examples, it was nearly impossible to implement anything (Or the people giving the chat didn't know how to implement those) but the documentation was nowhere to be found beyond those trivial examples.