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

[Lee Schlesinger]

I even wrote a column about iSmell
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/ismell-a-turkey/>. Boy, I'm really trotting
down Memory Lane today.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:44 PM Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >> Quite fascinating -- scent in VR.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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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