Game Scent reveals a new device that allows gamers to experience smelling the environments of their video games.
Game company, Game Scent, has revealed a new AI-powered device that will let gamers smell the environment and effects of their games in real-time. With the ever-growing VR popularity, along with the introduction of haptic feedback in the PlayStation 5’s DualSense controllers, gaming companies have been actively working in stimulating all five of the human senses while players play their games for a more realistic feel to the gaming world.
Going back all the way to 2013, it was revealed that Microsoft had spent over $100 million to perfect the Xbox One controller, and had even thought of adding smells to the new peripheral. A few years later, patents filed by Sony that had hinted that the company was also playing around with the idea of digital scent technology for a future iteration of PlayStation or a separate device altogether.
In August 2023, it came to light that Sony had indeed patented a Smell-O-Vision style mechanic that would be activated by certain lights and sounds during gameplay. The idea for adding smells to gameplay wasn’t exactly a new idea, however, it was only a matter of time before a finished product had made its way to the gaming market. The new device from Game Scent will use AI technology to analyze and track the sounds in the games that are being played.
As the AI analyzes the game sounds, it will release the appropriate scents in real-time, letting gamers experience a more immersive feel to their games. With a range of different smells, any environment can become sort of real to the sense of smell, for example; walking through a field of freshly cut grass, the AI will detect this and release the smell of cut grass. While having a range of smells to work with, there is a crucial scent that will be released after any gaming to clear the air of smells titled “clean air”.
Aside from cut grass and clean air, Game Scent has other scents available as well, the Kit will include six scent cartridges and will be available for $149.99. As a bonus to this already amazing yet strange device, the fact that it uses sound, the Dream Scent works with any console, PC’s, streaming platforms, and even the movies you may want to watch, not only giving the world of gaming an immersive feel, but the entertainment industry as well.
In the end, this new Game Scent device seems to be pushing for the future of immersion, gamers along with movie fans may look forward to being fully immersed with their sense of smell, giving anything they play or watch a more realistic vibe.
