Episode 362- Haptics & Smell-o-vision

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possible use cases, enhanced by chemical haptics, touch, smell & accelerometers.  Corporate metaverse experiments in @TheSandboxGame & Elden Ring trickery.

Michael and Michael start of this week’s episode with a series of mixed reality and metaverse possibilities.  The videos .  Making the virtual experience even more immersive is possible by incorporating touch and smell.  The team of Jasmine Lu, Ziwei Liu, Jas Brooks and Pedro Lopes have put together a paper on how the sense of touch can be used to give a feeling of cooling, warming and more.  Check out the summary of their work on Chemical Haptics in the show notes.  OVR Technology has a similar wearable that leverages the users’ sense of smell.  Michael and Michael speculate how these could be combined together to give a feeling of heat and the smell of burning.  A third example comes from Audi, who are bringing their Holoride technology to market this summer, to create virtual experiences for passengers in moving vehicles.  

HSBC stakes out a claim in The Sandbox for their metaverse experience, which reminds the co-hosts of older 3D Internet experiences.  An ingenious player creatively masquerades as a non-player character (NPC) in Elden Ring. 

What combinations of smell and chemical haptics are most intriguing to you?  Let us know over at @gamesatwork_biz

Thanks for listening!  

Selected Article Links

Apple Developer: Designing Award Winning Apps and Games – WWDC19 – Videos – Apple Developer 

HomeCourt.ai

Fyter

NewScientist article: Artificial touch: The new tech making virtual reality more immersive

Chemical Haptics

NPR article: Vermont tech firm believes to experience the metaverse, you have to smell it too

OVR Technology

The Verge article: New video game company aims to develop therapeutic games

Audi Newsroom: Beginning in the summer of 2022, Audi will become the first manufacturer to transform the automobile into an experience platform for virtual reality

Hypebeast article: HSBC Enters the Metaverse With The Sandbox Partnership

The Sandbox

Kotaku article: Elden Ring Player Pretends To Be NPC And Successfully Tricks Invader

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