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Remember HoloLens?
Just in case you don't, it was Microsoft's augmented reality headset, announced in 2015 and shown off at that year's E3 with an interactive Halo experience, a stage demo of Minecraft, and a whole lot of talk about revolutionary potential.
The Wall Street Journal certainly remembers it, as this week it published what amounts to a "Whatever happened to…" feature detailing the product's pivot from gaming gadget to enterprise productivity asset to "lethality increasing" military equipment, and how it struggled at each step to validate its effectiveness in any of those roles.