This sounds to me like the next step in keeping people hogtied to the internet even greater than what they already are. The idea is to give people a greater sense of personal engagement with one another....one can “feel” the senses etc.
I can see people eventually ‘locked into’ doing everything on line rather than meeting and enjoying people in person.
That about sums it up.
He's seen how Amazon has succeeded with their in-home surveillance hardware, and he wants to go there.
The thought occurred to me last night, that maybe the internet is destroying the world.