Multi-Sensory Virtual Reality
There’s something really powerful about smells. They can take you to another time and place and evoke memory in a way that nothing else can. Combining that with Virtual Reality means a really powerful experience.
I made my first smelly film last year. It came about by chance. When I watched an edit of a film we’d made, it didn’t feel like I was really there. I couldn’t get to that ultimate place of presence. It was too cold and the environment was too sterile. This is the problem we, as VR producers face.
If we are creating an experience where you are in direct sunlight on a beach, you need to feel hot.
If you are building a snowman, you need to feel cold.
Being next to food, we need to smell it.
Otherwise, we are only creating half an experience.
So I set out to capture the smells and the heat of the environment that this immersive expeirential film was set in. Some of the reactions are here:
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Source: Medium