When playing games, we are primarily influenced by hearing, and in the case of the DualSense controller, by touch. Device GameScent he intends to expand our senses through smell and allow us to experience what the worlds we spend time in taste and feel like. You could say it’s a joke, like the old Assassin’s Creed Kinect trailer on April Fool’s Day, but it’s serious.
GameScent currently intends to provide players with six flavors through replaceable cartridges. It is assumed that the artificial intelligence system will be able to read the situation on the screen and highlight one of the “smells”. Here is the smell of gunpowder during shootouts, fire and burning during explosions, hot asphalt and smoke during auto racing, thunderstorms, the smell of forests and clean air. It is supposed to neutralize all other odors in the room.
In the trailer we can see Red Dead Redemption 2, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and a racing game. “Research has shown that smell is imprinted in long-term memory more strongly than anything else.” wrote GameScent President Casey Bunce in a press release. “With GameScent, we hope to make player experiences immersive and memorable like never before.”
GameScent is already on sale at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy and GameStop for between $150 and $180. New flavors are planned for the future. Among them should be a sports arena, blood and freshly cut grass.
It is important to note that GameScent can read situations in games without any intervention from developers. Therefore it works independently. Although the question is how reliable. We’ll find out from future reviews. Let’s assume this unusual item finds its buyer.
Can you imagine this? Maybe combined with virtual reality? If so, what scents would you like?
Source :Indian TV
