>>105586654 (OP)It's not that it's been stagnant so much as the market keeps rejecting new things that came out or were greatly improved since 2012
>VR headsets are improved massively, most people quit caring after about two years, most consumers of said headsets end up being either VRChat addicts or gooners (or both)>3DTV's become a thing, again they're around for a year but people decide they don't need them for watching their redbox slop>Google Glass is introduced, rejected by society for being a privacy breach, people get punched in the face for wearing it. Meta is currently trying to reintroduce the concept by selling it through giant nerd glasses that look like shit>Raytracing becomes accessible, but the visual improvements are so marginal that most people don't care, especially since the quality of AAA games tanked due to the focus on graphical improvementsThere's a bunch more examples. I'm not shocked that zoomers don't remember about half this shit since it all flopped despite being major technical improvements. AI is basically the first new tech in a long time to not flop after 2-3 years of being the cool new gadget everyone's trying out, which is why every major company is jumping on it. But you have to wonder how much of AI's success is because Google kneecapped their own search results after covid for no good reason.