I like the NFC interactive content system. It works really well and given how ubiquitous smart phones are these days, an obvious way to provide bonuses and extra content.
My only complaint is how limited that content is. The short videos of JMJ explaining the concepts are interesting but the rest is, well ... there's not very much of it.
The photo gallery is limited, no close-ups of the performance. All distance shots.
The rehearsal video is just one film, taken on a phone it seems, and only from one angle and during most of this film, JMJ has his back to the camera (deliberate?) while playing Oxygene Pt. 2.
There's nothing about his VR/AR goggles. I was hoping he'd explain that bit of kit. I still don't understand why he wore them. What was he seeing in the goggles and why did he need to see whatever it was he was looking at? And how could he see where to place his hands in the real world while wearing those goggles? By sort of looking down and away?
The goggles were a key visual reference point for this concert - remember the original poster, with those goggles placed on the sun god image? This tech was noticeably absent from WTTOS, so a discussion about the goggles was obvious bonus content material, but nothing.
Finally, the AI artwork that I really like - used again in Bratislava and La Rochelle - doesn't get a proper full gallery or explanation about the tech used. It would be good publicity for whichever platform he used, for JMJ to name-drop the tech and the company concerned and to explain more about his creative process of image generation, but again, nothing.
A missed opportunity all around, I feel.
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