In all seriousness to improve that you'd need would be to have "fans" constantly spinning at idle and redirect airflow away from the scent, (in reality, a near silent compressor with probably a gallon tank at 30 psi or so - basically low enough to not be very dangerous but enough to push out fast enough - and some pneumatic tubes & valves) then cut over the pneumatics.
I can also see japanese date type games exploiting the shit out of this," you want a date with a smelly girl or the one that smell like strawberries? " Kinda like that
I mean you could always use the VR Minecraft mod, Im suprised they didn't but then again Ive been hearing its impossible to record it without it looking like your drunk
@@FireDrage Good jokes need no additional explanations. Just like true art, that does not need any gimmicks. But heck, what do I know, my generation grew up scuffing knees and learning how to make stuff with our own hands, and our understanding of people goes beyond dumb labels like toxic, which is usually just a cope out for weak minded people who can not understand others, or accept differences....
@@darkobubonja Calm down. Toxic is a common insult in gaming because it applies properly to people. You don't have to be a damn philosopher to make a joke.
@@hapticsolutionsincorporate8449 All these devices just for VR is too much clutter, plus there seems to be an obvious maintenance cycle to keep those pods filled. I hope there will be an all-in-one device or something that can just stimulate brain nerves to achieve these different senses.
"We're sending this to who for review?" "LLT..." "Oh. Go rebuild it with RGB." "But it's for VR, the playe~~~" "I said RGB." Linus: "iT's gOt RgB ToO?!"
@@ikkeheltvanlig are you trying to say that it doesn't have a smell ? Because it does. I love the smell ( no I'm not talking about snorting it), it's pretty hard to describe, it's like a very chemically acetone mint smell but doesn't smell like mint if that makes sense.
Me: *Sees the water bottle in multiple shots* Me: "Any minute now he'll say it" Linus: *Skips over* Me: Looks to see if the sun rose from the west today
Thank you for developing this. This is Awesome! How can you be contacted to make suggestions? I have a great idea to probably make this device even more capable.
In the ps3 era when Sony was asking for users what they can add to the playstation experience. I put some input about a scent device to smell the environment of the game for an immersive experience and got thumbs down 75% and here we are. Is very weird but it seem it has potential eventually the downside is if you met a character like trevor from gta 5 imagine his smell like fart ass but it can be ignore a lot of the smell is not that it requires a trevor smell from gta 5 for immersive experience.
I took a grad course a while back on developing simulated realities, and when olfactory simulation came up the whole class laughed it off as a joke! I'm always surprised when people don't think smell is an important part of our experience. Definitely see the promise in this. Smells evoke so many emotions, and it's a sensation we've basically limited to house decoration and food. It won't be long until we're focusing on full sensory resolution for immersive experiences instead of just audio/visual. Very cool!
The impact of smell is subtle yet pretty important. If you go for a walk in the woods, you can smell the wood, dead leaves and muddy areas. Bringing that to VR would be pretty awesome, and if used well, could really add to the immersion.
@@spacedoge3508 Scent immersion would probably be one of the easier VR experiences to curate You can buy vials of scent pretty easy and it seems that calibrating the machine for best effect is the tricky part
@@m_t_t_ Yeah, you're not smelling the water, you're smelling moss and dissolved gasses and minerals and shit. You're smelling a specific environment of multiple things, not water.
@@Lambda_Ovine Water definitely has a smell. It's just subtle enough that anyone who isn't told that it has a smell, may well never become aware of it. Same way that it has a very distinct taste, but people still call it tasteless.
It already is a huge part of marketing. There's been scent design for over decade e. g. in shopping malls. It makes a lot of sense, since scent directly goes to the limbic system, you can't even control the emotions and memories it invokes. I'd say, a right to not be manipulated through scent is quite urgent.
Then the game, movie and other development time period would also keep increasing imo...currently for example PS5 controller has some insane haptics which the developers have to configure for best experience...imagine configurung smell on top of that...but it would be dope ngl xD
@@w0y4k15 yes. Starbucks smells like coffee more than 50% of smell is artificial. Same goes for various other retail stores. Groceries stores use fresh aroma.
lol Same here... Everything turns red when it's over 70-75C. Then there's always the original reason they started putting lights in keyboards in the first place... being able to see in the dark. Naturally people like having different color choices, and so RGB was born. Then it became cheap enough that it got put in everything by default, and now everyone hates it =\
This reminds me of the "4DX" cinema where I watched Blair Witch. They had fans, lights, moving chairs and scents that are timed with key moments in the movie. I can't remember if there were also heaters or if that was at another place.
I watched aquaman with a friend in 4dx......imagine........ I was wet by the time I came out and I could barely have my drink in peace because the chair kept rocking like crazy
I went to something similar with scents, fans, heaters and moving chairs when I was a kid, it was awesome and it would make any game awesome now that I think about it
viruses in the future are gonna be interesting. instead of stealing your money or destroying your files, they just hit surströmming at full blast to your face.
This one is particularly intriguing since it has the ability to use your own oils/scents... sometimes there are somewhat ambiguous scents that people associate with different things. I think the coolest part is that you might have the ability to tailor the scents to your own perceptions... if further development is done right, one could even get higher volume "carrier" scents, and a wide variety of "component" scents that can be mixed even better for more scent variations... Very intriguing...
Might not understand how quotes work. But seems like it was understood regardless, so they must have worked Even if they were by the standards specified by the international "standards and quotations institute" defined as wrong
Think of game developers having the option to work with these guys and when they drop a new game they also drop a pack of scents for that kit that match the scents of their game environments. That would simplify things and make it easier to work for each game. Sweeeeeeet
And then the online community would list all kinds of silly substitutes for different experiences, just like silly texture packs/skin mods. "Use cotton candy in the blood slot"
@@jonhille oh my a virgin. Goop is where a crazy rich white girl see how many other people are richer, crazier, and I assume whiter, than her. IDK, anyone heard of others buying goop? And yes, she literally sold a candle which she suggested smelled like her vagina. To be fair though I did support aka pay for her crazy camping trip around Spain, a cooking show on public television.
@@manwearingbucket at the time i thought the batshit crazy was just her "friends" character. And to be fair a second time, Mario Battelle, the main host was outed as a sexual predator, so she still not the worst thing in that series 🤣😂😁😏
Before I setup a dedicated VR room, I used to use the TV room. I bought a Perspex screen to cover my TV when I was playing VR, since there was no way I was risking smashing it.
LTT, Thank you for talking about this and the concept of smell-resolution and latency. I will share this video with my students at IU. We have a course on immersive innovation in media arts & science. Haptic displays are relevant finally in the Information Age and students are excited to contribute. When I do research using systems like the Cilia (I ordered one, thx) I refer to them as "Environmental Feedback Devices" or EFDs. Most of my work has been focused on the control system components around EFDs for VR and AR spatial experiences. Lots of work to do in haptics if you compare it to media innovations in sight and sound experiences.
There was an episode of Tomorrow's World, years ago. In it they had a vial of super concentrated orange scent from a pharmaceutical company, it came with security guards and everything. The presenter asked the audience members to raise their hand as and when they smelt the aroma, to 'map out' how a smell can spread through air. They opened the vial and within a few moments the centre of the front row began to raise their hands and slowly but surely it spread out in a rough wave pattern until almost everyone had smelt it. Then the presenter revealed that it was totally unscented water and was actually a demonstration of the power of suggestion.
I went to college with creator of this smell-o-vision and got a demo of his previous version and it was unexpectedly super cool. Definitely excited to smell what comes next.
To solve the directional issues about this, how about have the setup attach to your television/monitor in the back and then have "hoses" that attach to each one of the sides of your screen, that way not only would it be really close to you but the smell would also come from the correct direction? You could even have another set of fans on the end of the hose to help with dispersing the smell in case you have a big tv.
I can't find if this is a thing, but what I really want is temperature. It would be cool to feel the heat of a fire in a game or huddle under a blanket while exploring a snow biome, if it could hook up to the AC or something. Probably energy intensive though.
@@OutOfRangeDE "But you cannot smell in direction. At least if you dont move " That's why I specifically mentioned VR. It's pretty easy to tell which direction a wind borne smell is coming from simply by turning your head, and considering this device uses fans to direct the smell towards you... So someone with a room-scale VR setup would benefit most, but even seated this would still work.
Just think there could be like a “gore” set that holds, gunsmoke, blood, metal, wood, sweat, dirt etc. I wonder what the Fog in silent hill would smell like?
@@bestbattle Vivecraft is a Forge mod. I guess the only reason why they didn't do that is because they didn't know it would be compatible (which I guess is fair)
Back in the day there was a smell-o-vision thingamjig for spykids 4 where you'd smell a paper when it came up. I'd imagine an implication like this would be so much better tho.
@@rikhil4220 This is actually already in a few theatres. I saw like a month back that the local theatre added it along with wind and misting effects to their moving seats.
This is totally something I would expect the creative community in Neos VR to add support for, using the in-game visual programming system. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cilia got popular enough, Neos might decide to divert development time to adding official support. But I think it would have to be pretty popular for that, as there are other things that could use development effort more. I do like the concept of the Cilia using off-the-shelf essential oils for their system though. That's a winner right there. And $200 dollars isn't actually that much money for VR stuff, considering it's still extremely early, and it adds an entirely new sense to your VR experience. I think that storage of the scents could be refined a bit, so they don't leak when not in use. Surely a lid with a seal could be added, even without any automation for that part? Just take the lids off before you start.
there was a group back in the late 90's early 00's that was working on a sent system for TVs Almost everyone knows RBY(Red/Blue/Yellow), HSL(Hue/Saturation/Light), CMYK(Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black), and RGB(Red/Green/Blue)
I can just do a homebrew version of this. Just get some friends together when playing VR and have them light different candles and spray air freshener while playing games. Like when you get to the distillery in Half-Life Alyx, just have them splash you with rubbing alcohol to really immerse you.
@@ALittleBitOfGay "I'm replaying the 8K video of our shotgun wedding in the console, remember how you had pregnancy flatulence?" is now a valid response xD (no offense prob what i would say)
@@kly8105 exactly!! A great and entertaining sentence now gone to waste. I knew this technology was a bad idea, it takes away great stuff like that. :(
