[Researchers continue to look for a practical and effective way to add smells, and taste, to presence experiences. The Scientific American story below describes a new effort that solves some long-standing problems, and the excerpt from coverage in MIT Technology Review that follows it provides more details. See the new article in Nature Communications for more information and three short videos. –Matthew]
[Image: The first part of Figure 4a in “Soft, miniaturized, wireless olfactory interface for virtual reality“: “A demonstration of the skin-integrated Device 1 in displaying olfaction feedback for providing an immersive experience to users during movie watching. Here, a girl in the movie is smelling a flower… while the watcher… smell[s] [a] floral odor by wearing the olfaction interface.”]
Virtual Reality System Lets You Stop and Smell the Roses
A wireless device worn on the face or lip can produce fragrances such as lavender and green tea in a virtual world
By Simon Makin
May 9, 2023
Virtual reality is already widespread in entertainment and is starting to spread to fields ranging from education to health care.… read more. “New wireless system worn on face or lip produces fragrances in a virtual world”