I was thinking the same thing. Does this technology offers anything more than AR? It seems the answer is no, unless you really don't want any glasses on your face.
Brett has a thing with actually holding what we are interacting with.
He believes that the sense of touch and how our fingers evolved isn't being used by any computing medium yet..
Further like the article mentions, immersing into total virtual worlds shall leave our bodies immobile
Finger tracking and finger haptics both have good working prototypes in AR.
I'm talking above about full body standalone/wireless headset AR (like magic leap) not "point your phone camera at a QR card" AR. Full body is active and immersive. You can jump, run, turn around, and it tracks and models the 3D space around you in real time. It really is something special, and Bretts talents in dynamic collaboration are exactly what is needed in this new tech field.
Instead he's huddled under projectors pinning paper QR codes to chipboard like it's 1980 when he could and should be pushing the frontier of interaction and design where his work can make a huge difference.
But I'm not talking about VR, I'm talking about AR, which is basically enhancing the real world with digital imaging. This is the same what the room is doing with projectors. But AR has more benefits, such as being mobile, projecting anywhere you look at, etc. You can QR code any object you want.
