Smell-O-Vision has arrived! Have you got your Virtual Reality Company helmet handy and are you ready for the adventures you are about to get? Let us see what the Brits have cooked up for us!
British scientists in York and Warwick Universities have come up with a Virtual Reality Company helmet that, they say, can mimic all 5 of the individual senses that it takes to create a real virtual image: taste, feeling, sight, smell, and sound. In fact, they have renamed their version of Virtual Reality Company technologies, Real Virtuality.
Many VR helmets are intended to be lighter in weight and less obtrusive, in order to not interfere with the simulated environment of Virtual Reality Company. But the monster helmet that the Brit scientists have developed looks like it belongs to some space suit. The model version of this Virtual Reality Company helmet is big, with a serious, front-mounted, surround-screen that’s the large definition in its own output, making pictures 30 times brighter or darker than the ordinary tv.
A heating and fan system is installed to create a sense of heat and heating or cooling breezes. Aside from the typical sight and auditory systems, the helmet comes outfitted with a system to spray tastes to taste into the mouth of the user and a scent dispenser to envelop the consumer in scents which would accompany anything is being experienced. Personally, I would not mind the flowery scent of an Alpine meadow, but I wouldn’t care about the skunk which may come waddling my manner!
Thus, Smell-O-Vision is here, and it should be available in five decades, the scientists tell us a price of approximately $2,200.00 USD.
In all seriousness, the British scientists believe that this Virtual Reality Company helmet, once elegant, will be advantageous to education, business and families all over the world. Conference calls will seem like having a meeting in precisely the same room, although participants may be on different continents. Imagine seeing and speaking to your grandparents, who are clear across the nation, and being able to smell your grandmother’s perfume? It will be as though they have been right there with you on your own living room. And what about history? School kids would have the ability to utilize the VR helmet to visit ancient Rome or other historical places.
I’m reminded of this movie, Brainstorm. In this 1983 film, Christopher Walken’s character is a scientist, right on the verge of finalizing such a Virtual Reality Company helmet. The consequences it has for military applications are, of course, scary, which becomes the plot of the movie. That time is almost here!
TheVirtual Reality Company helmet may look somewhat awkward today, but I’ll wager, in 5 decades, they will have figured out how to decorate and modify it so it will not seem like you would like to be an astronaut if you develop.
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