But in the case of the AR-based Storyteller experience, it’s an opposite challenge.
Sometimes, characters also come up and peer back through the window at me, too.
Tilting the book to the side can cause water to spill out from an ocean scene.
New AR scenes start every time one of the book’s thick boardlike pages is turned.
The story continued as I flipped pages back again.
A book like this could potentially be infinite.
Tools beyond controllers
The future of VR and AR headsets looks like it’ll be controller-free.
Keyboards and trackpads are the obvious next step.
Maybe other accessories will come after that.
But the technology’s evolution may be coming at the right time now.
The Magic Leap-based Storyteller experience was created five years ago and was intended to debut back in 2020.
“I think passthrough would be great for this.
In some ways better; in some ways not quite as good.
And even the Quest 3 is going to do a pretty great job, presumably.
I totally see those as the prime sort of devices for this experience.”
The Storyteller isn’t an actual product yet, but the idea for the book could be.
“When we started designing this, we were actually thinking of object-based storytelling at large.
