Trying to add a virtual reality natural odors

Startup Feelreal tries to realize a long time expressed the idea of ​​making a virtual reality more real. Engineers team working on a special mask, dress VR-player game together with the glasses type Oculus Rift, which may in the course of gameplay allocate different smells. In addition, supported by some more weather and thermal effects, making the mask in some semblance of "7-D theater" that try to surprise the viewer splashing water and wind while watching movies adapted.



Gadget makes the players look like Darth Vader, contains a replaceable cartridge with a prepared set of odors. Depending on the settings of a particular game and your own preferences, the player can experience the flavors of the ocean, jungle, fire, grass, dust, colors and metal. For added realism in mask included small heat sources, fans, "water sprinklers" vibrator and the microphone. In addition to the games, a startup developing a special Feelreal-player where you can watch films adapted for the gadget.

Journalists were able to try new TheVerge. Eddie Robertson описал their feelings as, to put it mildly, controversial. He moved in a specially prepared demo game, in which the majority of locations were prepared for basic odors. According Roberstona mask creates a feeling quite far from natural. For example, finding a near "hot object" leads to the fact that in the face at close range starts blowing hot air from a hair dryer as posing even discomfort. After testing Robertson noted that the presence of a masked Feelreal like an unusual and cruel torture.

Experiments with the introduction of virtual reality and even olfactory sense of taste is not new. In 2010, Japanese researchers using VR-points and generator odors could deceive human taste perception. Scientists gave into the hands of subjects typically tasteless cookies that glasses look like an orange slice or a piece of grilled meat. Visual imagery confirms compliance with the smell. Man eating a cookie, it appears certain that he swallowed exactly the product, the smell of which he felt in glasses and he saw in VR-glasses.



Source: geektimes.ru/post/246904/