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Smell your video games with GameSkunk
Well, that certainly adds a new dimension. SensoryAcumen showed off its GameSkunk accessory at CES 2013. This gaming add-on promises to be able to let you smell 30,000 different odors to offer a better game immersion. It's unknown if any game developers have signed up to support the device, and while smelling games is an interesting concept, curious ... how will Zombies smell ?
The company’s Game Skunk product was first announced back in 2011, but it has resurfaced at CES 2013. In my hands-on (nose-on?) demo, a representative told me I should be able to catch the distinct scent of coffee. No such smell ever reached my nose, but that could have more to do with the scent-heavy scene at CES in Las Vegas than the actual Game Skunk product itself.
So what do you think? If game developers get on board with Game Skunk, would you be willing to smell the flowers in Flower or experience a steady scent of gunpowder in Call of Duty?
Besides being applicable for video games, SensoryAcumen also thinks the device may have potential in the medical world, for example for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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#4497545 Posted on: 01/10/2013 06:02 PM
wuhu. it would be a fu... awesome to play resident evil, battlefield or metro 2033.
rotten & burned meat, gasoline, burned rubber and toxic gas....
Well said.. I wonder how those and other smells will be sampled.. Based on real samples? lol!!
P.S: Now I can finally smell all that matcho odor of Duke's piss.. Damn, I'm a sicko.
wuhu. it would be a fu... awesome to play resident evil, battlefield or metro 2033.
rotten & burned meat, gasoline, burned rubber and toxic gas....
Well said.. I wonder how those and other smells will be sampled.. Based on real samples? lol!!
P.S: Now I can finally smell all that matcho odor of Duke's piss.. Damn, I'm a sicko.
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#4497551 Posted on: 01/10/2013 06:10 PM
WTF developers!! why no coffee ?????
WTF developers!! why no coffee ?????
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#4497564 Posted on: 01/10/2013 06:32 PM
This+Postal3=damn yo house stink's!
This+Postal3=damn yo house stink's!
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#4497583 Posted on: 01/10/2013 07:04 PM
what a horrible idea. all i want is to smell the burning flesh and decay that is constantly around the FPS/TPS shooter games i play. plus i bet the cordite smell kit would need to be replaced constantly.
And just to throw out a stupid annoying comment, do we really needs the video games to be more realistic than they already are?
what a horrible idea. all i want is to smell the burning flesh and decay that is constantly around the FPS/TPS shooter games i play. plus i bet the cordite smell kit would need to be replaced constantly.
And just to throw out a stupid annoying comment, do we really needs the video games to be more realistic than they already are?
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#4497597 Posted on: 01/10/2013 07:36 PM
It's Smell-O-Vision all over again.
As long as they keep it on the more pleasant side of the scent spectrum... Grass/hay, flowers, and the ocean I'm okay with, and even the fleeting smell of gun powder after firing off a few rounds would be pretty cool, but when I'm engulfed in an invisible cloud of sewer gas because I happened to open one of the out-houses in Borderlands 2...that's where I draw the line.
Realistically though the technology needs to evolve more before it's released. Like Brasky said, we're going to have to buy refill cartridges, so there's that, and then like 3D there will more than likely be those who can't use the tech, only in this case because they're sensitive or allergic to the laboratory-made chemicals used to produce the scents.
tl;dr - Cool, albeit unnecessary tech. Still needs work after 50 years but it's making progress (30,000 smells vs a couple dozen). Kind of wish they'd work on those haptic vests instead. Still, very cool.
It's Smell-O-Vision all over again.
As long as they keep it on the more pleasant side of the scent spectrum... Grass/hay, flowers, and the ocean I'm okay with, and even the fleeting smell of gun powder after firing off a few rounds would be pretty cool, but when I'm engulfed in an invisible cloud of sewer gas because I happened to open one of the out-houses in Borderlands 2...that's where I draw the line.
Realistically though the technology needs to evolve more before it's released. Like Brasky said, we're going to have to buy refill cartridges, so there's that, and then like 3D there will more than likely be those who can't use the tech, only in this case because they're sensitive or allergic to the laboratory-made chemicals used to produce the scents.
tl;dr - Cool, albeit unnecessary tech. Still needs work after 50 years but it's making progress (30,000 smells vs a couple dozen). Kind of wish they'd work on those haptic vests instead.
Still, very cool.
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#4497605 Posted on: 01/10/2013 07:41 PM
Interesting name, had a game with something like this a few years back (Larry 7) though it used a scratch card of sorts.
It could work, depending on what smells they use and the game genre I guess.
(If nothing else it's another immersion improvement for the porn industry.)
(Granted even if that happens the smell of "rotting meat" and "burnt rubber" as used by examples in the earlier posts in this thread might still be there.)
Interesting name, had a game with something like this a few years back (Larry 7) though it used a scratch card of sorts.
It could work, depending on what smells they use and the game genre I guess.
(If nothing else it's another immersion improvement for the porn industry.)
(Granted even if that happens the smell of "rotting meat" and "burnt rubber" as used by examples in the earlier posts in this thread might still be there.)
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#4497615 Posted on: 01/10/2013 07:47 PM
Sounds expensive to buy and expensive to refill.
Sounds expensive to buy and expensive to refill.
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#4497622 Posted on: 01/10/2013 07:54 PM
I'd like to see this work with Primal Rage.
I'd like to see this work with Primal Rage.
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#4497641 Posted on: 01/10/2013 08:20 PM
play kirby superstar with this to smell candy, cake, apples, and animal flesh being devoured in kirby's fat mouth >)
play kirby superstar with this to smell candy, cake, apples, and animal flesh being devoured in kirby's fat mouth >)
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#4497647 Posted on: 01/10/2013 08:25 PM
Can you imagine playing those porn games? Hahahha
Anyway, this device would be great.
Can you imagine playing those porn games? Hahahha
Anyway, this device would be great.
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#4497651 Posted on: 01/10/2013 08:29 PM
This concept is older than dirt, there were at least two before this maybe farther back than a decade ago. By that I mean PC peripheral devices filled with liquids that would combine to make various smells. Too many flaws, imagine if some malicious program hijacked it...
Either way if it ever becomes cheap enough I'd like to see a version released where you just plug it in your nose so no one else has to smell and so it can get the effect done with minimal resource usage.
This concept is older than dirt, there were at least two before this maybe farther back than a decade ago. By that I mean PC peripheral devices filled with liquids that would combine to make various smells. Too many flaws, imagine if some malicious program hijacked it...
Either way if it ever becomes cheap enough I'd like to see a version released where you just plug it in your nose so no one else has to smell and so it can get the effect done with minimal resource usage.
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#4497657 Posted on: 01/10/2013 08:35 PM
agree. I cant image how I gonna ventilate the room after a few round of l4d2...
Either way if it ever becomes cheap enough I'd like to see a version released where you just plug it in your nose so no one else has to smell and so it can get the effect done with minimal resource usage.
agree. I cant image how I gonna ventilate the room after a few round of l4d2...
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#4497667 Posted on: 01/10/2013 08:45 PM
I think this kind of thing should come after we get immersed into the gaming world visually.
When gaming, I still feel like I'm sitting at my computer desk pretty much, when I can put on some goggles onto my face and actually "see" the game only as if I was in there. Well then I'd say this could be a very good idea!
I think this kind of thing should come after we get immersed into the gaming world visually.
When gaming, I still feel like I'm sitting at my computer desk pretty much, when I can put on some goggles onto my face and actually "see" the game only as if I was in there. Well then I'd say this could be a very good idea!
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#4497783 Posted on: 01/10/2013 11:08 PM
Let the smell of death fill your gaming room..
Yea.. no thanks =)
Let the smell of death fill your gaming room..
Yea.. no thanks =)
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wuhu. it would be a fu... awesome to play resident evil, battlefield or metro 2033.
rotten & burned meat, gasoline, burned rubber and toxic gas.
new difficulty mode invented: easy - medium - hard- insane - do not vomit
to be honest. i sure would buy it, if it would make his job and could bring me, while gaming to my limits and my limits are rly high, caused by my job