[Ipg-smz] A maker librarian colleague of mine in Idaho is experimenting with VR scent

[Mark Brownstein]

I remember DigiScents -- it worked like a dot matrix printer, using a 
library of scents and mixing them to produce other scents. It actually 
seemed interesting to have scent cues that sent you messages - the smell 
of roses could tell you that your print job is done, violets (or 
something) could tell you you've got mail, etc.

It was too bizarre for market acceptance (or didn't work as conceived). 
My father, who was blind, may have found a good use for it when he was 
using his computer.

WAY BACK in the '60s, someone talked about 'smellovision.'


On 11/15/2019 1:26 AM, Tom Geller via Ipg-smz wrote:
> On 15 Nov 2019, at 00:49, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
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>> Quite fascinating -- scent in VR.
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>> https://twitter.com/amy_vecchione/status/1195125071628529664
> Anyone remember DigiScents around 2000? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell . I knew their marketing manager (who was married to the CEO, I think) pretty well.
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> Nostalgia: I was hanging out with them when I met then-Mayor Jerry Brown in Oakland at some rah-rah tech event. Someone near me asked him to become the mayor of the nearby Vallejo next. "No way, man," he said. "That's heavy lifting."
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