The Touch Bar is only on their notebooks, "looking down" is like a half inch away from the screen you're already looking at.
...which is looking down at the keyboard.
It’s half an inch away from the bottom edge of the screen, but a considerably longer distance away from the things a person usually looks at when working.
And as TouchBar is a per app custom display, you'd have to look down at your keyboard to see the current status... of anything.