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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Researchers are using ultrasound to trigger smell directly in the brain for VR

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Researchers are using ultrasound to trigger smell directly in the brain for VR

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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Current systems emphasize sight and sound, with some progress in haptics. Smell remains largely absent, despite its unusually strong connection to memory and emotion.
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  • Zephorah@discuss.online
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    Just what everyone needed. An accurate array of smells for Resident Evil.

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      No - it’s for the smells of porn …

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    This is either going to be revolutionary or they’re going to melt someone’s amygdala and we’ll never hear of it again.

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    “Dr. Penfield, I smell burnt toast!”

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    Imagine explaining to a patient they have permanent neurological damage because they wanted to sniff their video games.

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    Smell-emitting diodes will become reality! Welcome to the future!

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    What smells like blue?

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    I’m an avid vr player and absolutely do not want this, I have about 9600hrs in vr since like 2018 or so

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      Damn that’s more than 3 days spent in VR.

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    I can’t smell most things in real life.

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    Can’t wait for this to be added to Gorilla tag.

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    Smell is chemical.

    This seems like a medical procedure of some kind

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