Digital scent technology intends to change the interactive entertainment experience.
Digital scent technology is a technology to sense, transmit and receive scent-enabled digital media.The idea is to scent-enable movies, games, music, animation, or any digital media.
This technology works by combining olfactometers and electronic noses.
Create a more immersive and captivating environment for your audience. Smell reaches out into a new, visceral dimension, transporting viewers, gamers, and music fans into the realm of the senses. Atmosphere, mood, emotion and characters can all be enhanced with scent.
By the end of the 1950s, a Hans Laube invented the Smell-O-Vision, a system which released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could "smell" what was happening in the movie. The Smell-O-Vision faced competition with AromaRama, a similar system invented by Charles Weiss that emitted scents through the air-conditioning system of a theater.
Smell-O-Vision did not work as intended. According to a Variety review of the mystery comedy film Scent of Mystery (1960), which featured the one and only use of Smell-O-Vision, aromas were released with a distracting hissing noise and audience members in the balcony complained that the scents reached them several seconds after the action was shown on the screen. In other parts of the theater, the odors were too faint, causing audience members to sniff loudly in an attempt to catch the scent. These technical problems were mostly corrected after the first few showings, but the poor word of mouth, in conjunction with generally negative reviews of the film itself, signaled the end of Smell-O-Vision.
Nascent Technology?
A handful of enthusiasts have been working quietly on the nascent technology. One of them is Jenny Tillotson, a researcher and a designer at the University of the Arts in London, England.
Tillotson produced the world’s first interactive scent outfit. She called her prototype dress ‘Smart Second Skin’. Smart because it senses the wearer’s mood, ‘second skin’ because it interacts with the wearer and their environment.
Tillotson produced the world’s first interactive scent outfit. She called her prototype dress ‘Smart Second Skin’. Smart because it senses the wearer’s mood, ‘second skin’ because it interacts with the wearer and their environment.
Digital scent movie projector with sound channel
The patent that was filed back in 2006:
Title: Digital scent movie projector with sound channel
Document Type and Number: United States Patent 20080043204
Kind Code: A1
Abstract:A Digital Scent Movie Projector with Sound Channels. Its features include: A Digital Movie Projector, A sense of smell signal converter and a set of scent making devices. A digital movie projector uses a full frequency sound channel as its passageway to transmit sense of smell digital signal or adding a sense of smell digital signal transmission passageway besides the several full frequency and a low frequency sound channel.
Smelling Television
Haruka Matsukura at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan developed this ‘smelling screen’ with a few colleagues. Basically any LCD display screen can be converted to a smelling screen using the technology developed by Haruka and team. The smell will arise not from the entire screen but from that exact spot where the image is being displayed.
But how does this amazing technology work? Vaporising gel pellets are embedded on each of the four corners of the screen and as soon as an image of coffee or any pre-designated food-stuff appears, the pellets release odour into four air streams. Tiny fans installed on/underneath the screen waft the odour parallel to the screen and smell can be maneuvered to seem as if it is arising from a particular spot on the screen.
The air-flow is kept under check and is very mild, creating an illusion that the smell arises from the object visible on the screen. A test model of the screen was showcased at an exhibition in Florida
The patent that was filed back in 2006:
Title: Digital scent movie projector with sound channelDocument Type and Number: United States Patent 20080043204
Kind Code: A1
Abstract:A Digital Scent Movie Projector with Sound Channels. Its features include: A Digital Movie Projector, A sense of smell signal converter and a set of scent making devices. A digital movie projector uses a full frequency sound channel as its passageway to transmit sense of smell digital signal or adding a sense of smell digital signal transmission passageway besides the several full frequency and a low frequency sound channel.
Smelling Television
Haruka Matsukura at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan developed this ‘smelling screen’ with a few colleagues. Basically any LCD display screen can be converted to a smelling screen using the technology developed by Haruka and team. The smell will arise not from the entire screen but from that exact spot where the image is being displayed.But how does this amazing technology work? Vaporising gel pellets are embedded on each of the four corners of the screen and as soon as an image of coffee or any pre-designated food-stuff appears, the pellets release odour into four air streams. Tiny fans installed on/underneath the screen waft the odour parallel to the screen and smell can be maneuvered to seem as if it is arising from a particular spot on the screen.
The air-flow is kept under check and is very mild, creating an illusion that the smell arises from the object visible on the screen. A test model of the screen was showcased at an exhibition in Florida
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