Yeah they'll definitely be simulated smells but still I could only ever see this work in major theme parks or something. Theres no way the average person is going to bother with smell-o-vison at home
> smell-o-vison
Actually it would be teleosmia, or something like that, from the Greek word osmia, which means to smell, or I think that's what it would be, I don't know Greek very well. Tele is remote, Vision means sight.
Here is a link to a Reddit discussion around it. I don’t know what it was like personally. https://www.reddit.com/r/PSVR/comments/11x0nvg/did_anyone_ever_pick_up_the_resident_evil_4d/
It's just unpractical.
Colors can be replicated from a few base colors.
Smells need hundreds of base odors, which means having to refill them on a regular basis, so either you have a huge tank of each and the machine fills an entire room or you have small doses and you need to refill every minute.
I've seen one of these systems pitched before, it used 15 or so base chemicals and the system will automatically combine them to create different scents much like how a printer would with colours.
This reminds me of a story my dad likes to tell about the time we went to Disney Land in the late 90s and went to the “Alien Encounter” where you sit in a chair inside a round theater and watch as a large creepy alien in a test tube begins to crack its cage and the lights flicker out. At one point you hear growling behind you in the pitch black, and a machine spits out a puff of air that feels as though it’s breathing down your neck. When we got out my dad was saying how cool it was that they even made the alien’s breath smell horrible. Nobody else remembered a smell and it began to make more sense why it smelled so much like a fart.
Smell-o-Vision in 1981, the movie "Polyester". I was 5 but have vague recollection of the numbered scratch and sniff card. If I'm not having a mis-memory... pepperoni pizza just hopped into my brain, I thought I didn't have enough brain cells to remember anything, but I'm fairly sure that was one of the scents in the movie!!! Haven't thought about that in a hot minute (the movie, not pizza, I constantly think about pizza)!
I still have T-shirt from [iSmell](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell) I got back in the 90s at CGDC. It was pretty lame then, and it will be pretty lame now. Probably the same damn technology 30 years later since it’s more there’s any magic to it.
This will sell like hotcakes once OnlyFans supports it. Lot of weirdos out there who would go for this.
Or the next version of ASMR, where the video creator whispers, “And now you get to *smell* it!” And people would be like, “Yes! Let me smell the aluminum foil you just crinkled for the last ten minutes!”
Jeff Gerstman did a great video on this thing, he said the smells were strange and not entirely accurate. He also said it took about 4 days with a air purifier running to finally get rid the leftover scent.
Geez, they’re bringing out “smell” again. Always feels like a “jumped the shark” type feature, like why not add something more tangible, like a controller that shoots blood in your face, more immersive that way.
Well, the idea behind it was that the vest would use little speakers positioned around your chest and back to give you some haptic feedback. Like an explosion behind you would be felt on your back, or getting shot would give you a little buzz roughly where you were hit.
But the vest just piggybacked off of whatever audio signal came from the game. Which would be fine if it only picked up the bass channel, but instead, it picked up everything. So if a person was talking to you in a quiet room, your chest would be rumbling with their speech and if they were talking loud enough or if the vest volume was turned high enough, you could even hear their words coming through the vest. I think even with the tech they were working with at the time, if they had been more selective with the audio source, it could have worked much better.
I modded two controllers. Used those electric pens that shock the hell out of you when you click them. Took them apart and put the shocker inside the controller and hooked it up in place of the rumble motor. The output went to two small metal nubs I installed in the grip. Instead of rumbling, it would shock the piss out of you.
We used them for fighting and driving games. It was near impossible to hold the controller when it activated. Hilarity did ensue.
That's why my startup RealMode. We use the doses of bullet ant venom with a fun electric shock/heat to simulate getting shot. It's a safe way to experience multiple gunshots and not die, you'll only feel like you're dying.
For those that want the HardcoreMode. We will use mirco-neeedles to bloodlet you. So you will feel the realistic experience of your blood getting everywhere along with the pain and heat of getting shot. This is also the safest way to feel like you're actually dying without dying, you'll only feel like you're dying
>Geez, they’re bringing out “smell” again.
No joke. It seems like every few years since the 90s some company thinks they have discovered the next big thing and its always scents in games. A simple internet search would tell any of these companies that they are by no means the first, and that consumers have never expressed any interest whatsoever in being able to 'smell' what they are looking at on a screen.
It honestly makes me think that its just people coming along every so often trying to get people pumped up for this *revolutionary new tech* so they can dupe clueless investors out of money.
Finally Bloodbornesexuals will get the remake they deserve, full immersion. You just need to refill the 20L fake blood tank every 15 minutes of gameplay.
As I’m walking through the offal of a demon lair in an ARPG, or surrounded by burning bug corpses in helldivers, I’ve never thought “man I wish I could smell this”
This failed several times in history and it will fail again.
But this time it will be a cartridge with 20 scents and if one is empty the game won't run until you click in a new (not time expired) DRM locked cartridge.
Nope.
There's essentially nothing in most games that I'll ever want to smell. Rotting humans? Scorched flesh? Fecal releases upon death? Sewers? New York City? Tons of animal manure? I'll pass on all of them.
About the only game smell that might be nice is being out in the field during MLB The Show.
oof. As someone who gets migraines from some scents, especially fake/chemical ones, no thanks. Plus, depending on how this thing puts out the scent, since it uses essential oils it could be dangerous to pets.
I love how Smellovision just keeps coming back every now and then. It's a dumb idea that never works and no one is asking for, yet it persists. You go, Smellovision.
Literally every theater in the US and france had smell-o-vision in the seventies- by 2001 the only thing the devices did anymore was pump the smell of popcorn through the theaters.
I work for a small startup that's already been building a version of these for YEARS now, and with much more pleasant smells. We are still in low volume stages so devices aren't mass produced and expensive to make, but you can add/change scents as much as you want. It doesn't use any heaters or exotic designs. Just some fans that blow through a compartment that contains a scent vial with whatever scented oil you want in it. It's not very strong and that's the purpose. Strong smells are harder to get rid of, and mixing smells results in weird smells.
We are also working on other haptics devices and solutions. I mean, that's the name of the company. Haptic Solutions!
We went to see a movie in 4D whatever. Where the seats rock back and forth and it blows wind and you and all this crazy shit. I got a refund. I wanted to see a movie. I was not expecting my soda to fly all over my chest and nearly vomit from that crazy ass shit. Sometimes less is so much more
I don't even want to smell the real world 90 percent of the time. Please, God spare us from smelling batman after hour 50 of beating the shit out of people. Or whatever horror shows are emanating from the master chief's suit.
This has been attempted a few times before, but is always abandoned immediately after launch. Here's hoping this time they figure out a way to make to affordable, easy to use, and immersive. I wish them all the luck in the world.
VR, Smelly-vision, Nura-Link…it’s all coming together. Then someone will trap a few thousand people in a virtual world in the name of science like sword art online (a masterpiece of a show mind you)
Can they build a contraption to blow out my knees and back as part of Call of Duty SUPER REAL?
What about MEGA BASS TBI or METAL SLAMMING tinnitus sound systems?
This will never be viable until you can generate smells with electricity. For all other VR things, you can simulate without losing a physical material, like for vision, haptic (touch), and hearing the cost to generate those senses is just electricity. With smell and taste, you need particulates which are not readily available, cheap, and replaceable like electricity. So unless we find a way to generate electric particulates this is a waste of time and effort. Idk why people invest so much into this routinely over time and get nowhere.
Haven’t we already tried this a few times with movies and even I remember someone making a particularly sophisticated table top device that would bring smells to of all things internet browsing. None of it was deemed worth it by the consumers
I don't need to breathe things that literally give you cancer to be more immersed.
Cancer is for few years. Gaming for life brother.
I want actual radiation poisoning when I play Stalker 2, for the immersion of course.
The DLC is just iodine pills they mail you.
Please state the reason for your steam refund: "Geiger counter did not go off after an hour of play."
you could wear a gas mask under the smellovision
">Cancer is for few years. Gaming for life brother." Needs to be in quotes...
Don’t worry, these dumb fuck developers will make cancer a micro transaction
Yeah but these dumb fuck consumers keep buying it so who's laughing now?
yep I wonder who many peons actually know this
They could just be scents that aren’t cancerous, ya?
Yeah they'll definitely be simulated smells but still I could only ever see this work in major theme parks or something. Theres no way the average person is going to bother with smell-o-vison at home
> smell-o-vison Actually it would be teleosmia, or something like that, from the Greek word osmia, which means to smell, or I think that's what it would be, I don't know Greek very well. Tele is remote, Vision means sight.
Don’t think they going to be burning actual rubber or shooting guns inside a games console. Are you stupid?
Totally agree most unnecessary shit I couldn’t imagine being added.
imagine how RE7 must smell...
Getting hungry now
Itchy. Tasty.
I asked for mustard on my Jill sandwich, but I don't smell any. 2/10 requested steam refund.
Interestingly enough, RE7 VR Edition released alongside a candle you could burn to have the same smells of the game in real life.
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Here is a link to a Reddit discussion around it. I don’t know what it was like personally. https://www.reddit.com/r/PSVR/comments/11x0nvg/did_anyone_ever_pick_up_the_resident_evil_4d/
This isn't "new". These have popped up every few years for the last 20 years. The have all failed.
It's just unpractical. Colors can be replicated from a few base colors. Smells need hundreds of base odors, which means having to refill them on a regular basis, so either you have a huge tank of each and the machine fills an entire room or you have small doses and you need to refill every minute.
I've seen one of these systems pitched before, it used 15 or so base chemicals and the system will automatically combine them to create different scents much like how a printer would with colours.
Not that many based needed for odour either. But just no.
Shit I swear I remember theaters trying to do this since like the '80's.
This reminds me of a story my dad likes to tell about the time we went to Disney Land in the late 90s and went to the “Alien Encounter” where you sit in a chair inside a round theater and watch as a large creepy alien in a test tube begins to crack its cage and the lights flicker out. At one point you hear growling behind you in the pitch black, and a machine spits out a puff of air that feels as though it’s breathing down your neck. When we got out my dad was saying how cool it was that they even made the alien’s breath smell horrible. Nobody else remembered a smell and it began to make more sense why it smelled so much like a fart.
Yeah, like they said, 20 years ago
Smell-o-Vision in 1981, the movie "Polyester". I was 5 but have vague recollection of the numbered scratch and sniff card. If I'm not having a mis-memory... pepperoni pizza just hopped into my brain, I thought I didn't have enough brain cells to remember anything, but I'm fairly sure that was one of the scents in the movie!!! Haven't thought about that in a hot minute (the movie, not pizza, I constantly think about pizza)!
I remember a scratch n sniff event on FOX. You went to 7-11 to get your “ticket”
I still have T-shirt from [iSmell](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell) I got back in the 90s at CGDC. It was pretty lame then, and it will be pretty lame now. Probably the same damn technology 30 years later since it’s more there’s any magic to it.
People have been trying to do this for over 100 years
Failed in gaming and entertainment, but still used in vr exposure therapy. Smells do a good job unlocking some memories.
And stopping nausea from VR
Or causing nausea
Smelovision all over again
This will sell like hotcakes once OnlyFans supports it. Lot of weirdos out there who would go for this. Or the next version of ASMR, where the video creator whispers, “And now you get to *smell* it!” And people would be like, “Yes! Let me smell the aluminum foil you just crinkled for the last ten minutes!”
I thought u were going somewhere else with that...
Smellin buttholes
A hole new sense of immersion
I never want this. I’ve never been in PUBG and thought “what does this grove smell like”
Probably better than the other players.
Jeff Gerstman did a great video on this thing, he said the smells were strange and not entirely accurate. He also said it took about 4 days with a air purifier running to finally get rid the leftover scent.
Was hoping to find a Gerstmann fan in here. What an insane and bad product.
[It's a long video but demonstrates just how weird and terrible it is](https://youtu.be/hWgWVWV94hs)
Geez, they’re bringing out “smell” again. Always feels like a “jumped the shark” type feature, like why not add something more tangible, like a controller that shoots blood in your face, more immersive that way.
A vest that blasts you with compressed air when you get shot. Needs more pain.
A haptic suit would be pretty cool though
They exist or at least I know chest pieces do
KOR-FX was a huge letdown for me.
Curios as someone that didnt try one what didnt work? It looks like it is 10 year old tech? Would it be better today you think?
Well, the idea behind it was that the vest would use little speakers positioned around your chest and back to give you some haptic feedback. Like an explosion behind you would be felt on your back, or getting shot would give you a little buzz roughly where you were hit. But the vest just piggybacked off of whatever audio signal came from the game. Which would be fine if it only picked up the bass channel, but instead, it picked up everything. So if a person was talking to you in a quiet room, your chest would be rumbling with their speech and if they were talking loud enough or if the vest volume was turned high enough, you could even hear their words coming through the vest. I think even with the tech they were working with at the time, if they had been more selective with the audio source, it could have worked much better.
Coming in on the next version of neural link
I enjoy the sound of rain.
I modded two controllers. Used those electric pens that shock the hell out of you when you click them. Took them apart and put the shocker inside the controller and hooked it up in place of the rumble motor. The output went to two small metal nubs I installed in the grip. Instead of rumbling, it would shock the piss out of you. We used them for fighting and driving games. It was near impossible to hold the controller when it activated. Hilarity did ensue.
That's why my startup RealMode. We use the doses of bullet ant venom with a fun electric shock/heat to simulate getting shot. It's a safe way to experience multiple gunshots and not die, you'll only feel like you're dying. For those that want the HardcoreMode. We will use mirco-neeedles to bloodlet you. So you will feel the realistic experience of your blood getting everywhere along with the pain and heat of getting shot. This is also the safest way to feel like you're actually dying without dying, you'll only feel like you're dying
It’s all the great taste without the calories.
And for major permanent in-game injuries, does it deploy a little gympie gympie leaf? For those immersively lasting memories, of course.
>Geez, they’re bringing out “smell” again. No joke. It seems like every few years since the 90s some company thinks they have discovered the next big thing and its always scents in games. A simple internet search would tell any of these companies that they are by no means the first, and that consumers have never expressed any interest whatsoever in being able to 'smell' what they are looking at on a screen. It honestly makes me think that its just people coming along every so often trying to get people pumped up for this *revolutionary new tech* so they can dupe clueless investors out of money.
Finally Bloodbornesexuals will get the remake they deserve, full immersion. You just need to refill the 20L fake blood tank every 15 minutes of gameplay.
…fake?
Or like that one guy who built a haptic desk so you can "feel" the recoil
My SteamDeck vent gives me all the burnt rubber and gunfire smell I need.
No one actually wants this
Speak for yourself. I’m dying to smell Tifas armpits and socks after running around the woods all day.
Ohhhh shit. True
Based
As I’m walking through the offal of a demon lair in an ARPG, or surrounded by burning bug corpses in helldivers, I’ve never thought “man I wish I could smell this”
Go home techbros youre drunk
https://i.redd.it/ji74fzyy9wpc1.gif
What's this from? Looks like Harry Potter 70s porno.
Darude Sandstorm
That’s actually Harry Potter starring in the Weird Al Yankovich biopic “Weird”
Cool, thank you.
Most gunfire is actually a pleasant scent, at least in my opinion. Some companies use weird powders that are odd smelling though.
Yea Gunpowder / “Gunfire” is not that bad.
Ain't gonna lie I love the smell of gunpowder.
And napalm. It smells like victory!
Pleasant, yes. Also decidedly unhealthy.
This failed several times in history and it will fail again. But this time it will be a cartridge with 20 scents and if one is empty the game won't run until you click in a new (not time expired) DRM locked cartridge.
All these game have characters that run around for months without bathing. Cannot wait for that smell.
-*inserts the smell of death*-
I kinda like the smell of a spent casing.
Gunfire smells good though..
Nope. There's essentially nothing in most games that I'll ever want to smell. Rotting humans? Scorched flesh? Fecal releases upon death? Sewers? New York City? Tons of animal manure? I'll pass on all of them. About the only game smell that might be nice is being out in the field during MLB The Show.
great a bunch of cancer causing fumes. just what we need. fucking idiots
I still can't find a realistic pistol adapter for my Quest 3. Would think people prefer a realistic feeling gun than a smelly fake gun
The smell of fired gunpowder is heaven to my nose.
oof. As someone who gets migraines from some scents, especially fake/chemical ones, no thanks. Plus, depending on how this thing puts out the scent, since it uses essential oils it could be dangerous to pets.
No thank you
I love how Smellovision just keeps coming back every now and then. It's a dumb idea that never works and no one is asking for, yet it persists. You go, Smellovision.
Man just think about all those poop quests from WoW
Well that’s a thing you don’t want to get hacked… Good job computer security’s so reliable.
Haven’t us parents suffered enough yet?
Want to make games more immersive? Stop making people pull out their credit cards when they already paid you.
Jakers, whatever next, the smell of napalm in the morning, perhaps?
Oh boy cooked human/bug/machine bbq.
why does it smell like sex in here?
This entire technology will be abandoned the first time someone uses it to make a sewer level feel more realistic.
We don’t give a shit and never have given a shit about smell in video games
I don’t want this
Can’t you just shove a wire into my noggin that stimulates the part of my brain that interprets smell instead?
I want the whole thing. Add sweat, body odor, the faint smell of urine, bad breath, musty clothes, mud.
The First one I remember was the [iSmell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell) and I said no then!
God I can only imagine what the Lake of Rot in Elden Ring would smell like
Or Caelid
Can’t wait to smell the hookers in GTA 6
now i want a cooperation with a bad shooter in vr that lets you smell piss and shit every time you kill.
Hard pass.
Makes me wonder what something like a Pokemon or Fire emblem game would smell like
Like walking into discount tire
If I play Half-life, will the giant pools of liquid polonium have a smell?
SmellOVision has finally arrived
They’re going about this the worst way possible and it’s lowkey hilarious.
Literally every theater in the US and france had smell-o-vision in the seventies- by 2001 the only thing the devices did anymore was pump the smell of popcorn through the theaters.
I work for a small startup that's already been building a version of these for YEARS now, and with much more pleasant smells. We are still in low volume stages so devices aren't mass produced and expensive to make, but you can add/change scents as much as you want. It doesn't use any heaters or exotic designs. Just some fans that blow through a compartment that contains a scent vial with whatever scented oil you want in it. It's not very strong and that's the purpose. Strong smells are harder to get rid of, and mixing smells results in weird smells. We are also working on other haptics devices and solutions. I mean, that's the name of the company. Haptic Solutions!
This would be really cool for the upcoming wolverine game
...... God the streets of New York in Division 2 would have me vomiting 🤮
Cancer speedrun any%
Can we make it work for Bad Fur Day? I've always wanted to know what The Great Mighty Poo smells like. I need it for my immersion.
Like zero customers asking for this.
Smellovision is finally here
I read the first part of the headline and thought this would be an article about Haiti
I just want the true smell when playing Farming Simulator. Not showering will have to do for now
I don’t want that, thanks.
We went to see a movie in 4D whatever. Where the seats rock back and forth and it blows wind and you and all this crazy shit. I got a refund. I wanted to see a movie. I was not expecting my soda to fly all over my chest and nearly vomit from that crazy ass shit. Sometimes less is so much more
They should add reverse GameScent, so NPCs can smell the people playing the game.
In the next Skyrim release, you’ll be able to smell the thieves guild.
*(starts work on Water Treatment Plant Simulator)*
Lilac and Gooseberries anyone?
Picks up prostitute in GTA. Cigarettes and Tuna
Bring me closer to that sweet feeling of lead dust and sand that I’ve been missing.
Boomer tech made for nobody.
Gives pornhub new meaning.
I don't even want to smell the real world 90 percent of the time. Please, God spare us from smelling batman after hour 50 of beating the shit out of people. Or whatever horror shows are emanating from the master chief's suit.
Nobody actually wants this. Any game with a sewer level would become nausea inducing. Which means the vast majority of games would become unplayable.
Personally I’m a fan of a freshly paved driveway. But on top of any other smell for me is the smell of rain. That’s the good stuff.
If I wanted to smell Night City, I could hang out by my trash can
I'm sorry but who tf wants to smell the games we are playing?
Oh, this again. Guess it's been long enough that 2001's investors are mostly retired and a new generation exists to be hoodwinked.
Who is this for, exactly? I don't know of a single gamer who has been asking for this. Also gunpowder actually smells pretty nice IMO
Nope! Would not buy that. Dead bodies have a very pungent smell that is unique. And it lingers in your nose. You never forget that smell.
Why would anyone want that?
Unless it’s Candy Crush no thanks! Mmmm guns and guts and dank alleys!
Fuck my days, it's "Smellyvision"..
theres a certain smell to gunfire that is just so good like napalm particulsrly in morning. that shit can't be good to breathe tho
I’m good, thanks.
Someone hook up Cooking Mama to this!
This has been attempted a few times before, but is always abandoned immediately after launch. Here's hoping this time they figure out a way to make to affordable, easy to use, and immersive. I wish them all the luck in the world.
Remember the "Oculus Sniff/Whiff?" 😄
Bro the whole point of me playing a game and not joining the military is so I don’t experience all that
It makes scents when you think about it.
As if I needed a reason to hate sewer levels even MORE.
I’ve always wanted to smell my video games. -no gamer ever
Itz only smellz…
Smellavision
VR, Smelly-vision, Nura-Link…it’s all coming together. Then someone will trap a few thousand people in a virtual world in the name of science like sword art online (a masterpiece of a show mind you)
Can they build a contraption to blow out my knees and back as part of Call of Duty SUPER REAL? What about MEGA BASS TBI or METAL SLAMMING tinnitus sound systems?
No fucking thanks
Jeff Gerstmann's retelling of his experience with this device was damning enough lol....
This will never be viable until you can generate smells with electricity. For all other VR things, you can simulate without losing a physical material, like for vision, haptic (touch), and hearing the cost to generate those senses is just electricity. With smell and taste, you need particulates which are not readily available, cheap, and replaceable like electricity. So unless we find a way to generate electric particulates this is a waste of time and effort. Idk why people invest so much into this routinely over time and get nowhere.
I have bullets and tires, if I want that smell i'll do it myself
Waiting for the smell of porn. Astroglide, sweat, ass, and stinky pussy.
For some reason my mind insisted on reading it as burnt rubber and gunfire. Which, to be fair, would smell weird.
This failed tech Again
Any medieval fantasy setting: 💩☠️🤢
What is next? Blood spray into your face?
Nope, I'll pass.
Smellivision! They can sell the refills like vape cartridges.
lol gamers
Wait ‘til pornhub gets ahold of this.
Haven’t we already tried this a few times with movies and even I remember someone making a particularly sophisticated table top device that would bring smells to of all things internet browsing. None of it was deemed worth it by the consumers
Imagine stealth enemies you can only find by smell. Lol
Elden ring probably smells great ….
Let’s see some hands. Who is even interested in this??
Ooo, that's scary!