Are you ready to smell your game?
You might be aware that similar project such as virtual-reality cooking has been achieved before but researchers in Birmingham are ready to take this a step further. They are planning to develop new technology to add smells to the virtual world of video games.
“What we are experiencing from reports coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq is that when the troops get there, they are overwhelmed by not just by the culture but by the sights, the sound and indeed the smells. So what we are trying to do is to investigate the new technology, see if it’s credible enough to add to our serious games simulation,” said Professor Bob Stone, University of Birmingham.
Aviation fuel, garbage, body odor, burning rubber, new sewage and hospital smell are some of the smells that appeared in the BBC video interview. “These smells are created by an American company and what’s interesting is the hospital smell that I have here,” said one of the observer while referencing to the hospital smell palette. “It is apparently very definitely an American hospital, and a British hospital for example or definitely an Iraqi hospital for example would smell completely different. So, there’s a lot of fine tuning you could do with all these scents.”
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