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[color=#FF0000]DIGITAL SCENT TECHNOLOGY[/colo]
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ABSTRACT
The technology has so far targeted mainly our
sense of sight and sound. To further enhance the
virtual reality experience and another flavor to it,
technology is now targeting your nose and tongue.
The application area of virtual reality is vast- from
normal entertainment to the Internet and ecommerce
application. You will be able to smell
product before buying them online.
California-based Digiscents Inc. has developed
the iSmell personal scent synthesizer. This small
device connects through your pc via serial port and
has its own driver.
INTRODUCTION
In this modern age, computers have verified
the cause of their existence. They have virtually
taken over in every field of today’s fast life. Gone
are the days when applications of computers were
limited to official use only. Today computers have
important place in every household purpose, and
mainly internet has taken over whole world.
There are various causes due to which
computers have their own stand in our life. It
provides a very good facility of fast processing,
sound and picture. The virtual reality concept has
provided very good features to the computer
systems. The concept of virtual reality is
introduced by the computer programmers to
provide more attachments to the user. There are
several concepts of the virtual reality that are
available such as digital smell, virtual theater,
electronics hand gloves, multipoint surround sound
system, 3d goggles.
EVOLUTION OF DIGITAL SMELL
How it was Invented
As we know that many scientists have
started for the virtual reality from the last 5 to 6
years. As a virtual reality they have got a full
concept as virtual theater. These theaters consist of
an electronic hand gloves, digital smell, multipoint
surround sound system, movement controllable
seats, 3d goggles. From this idea the multipoint
surround sound system, 3d goggles, movement
controllable seats were completed. Now for the
user to fill more realistic effects of movies they
were introducing the very new facility of digital
smell in movies or in games. For example if we are
watching a movie and we see burning of tier then
we will fill that smell in theater or pc or television.
The basic idea for this was given by the
perfume making companies for the advertisements
of their perfumes.
Founders
Founders Dexster Smith and Joel Lloyd Bellenson,
experts in bioinformatics and genomics, started
from the following idea: “If we can find the
essence of a biological smell and build a profile,
we can digitalize and broadcast it.” They came up
with the idea for the company while they were in
South Beach. Using their scientific knowledge,
they indexed and analyzed natural smells said to be
common to South Beach such as flowers, salt
water, and suntan lotion
HARDWARE DEVICES
Smell Synthesizer: -
The smell synthesizer mean the device which
is used to generate the smells. Such as ismell is
device used to produce the gas using computer.
There are various types of smell synthesizers
available in the market, but for computer the smell
synthesizer is made by digiscents industry.
Multisensory Marketing:
Death to Banner Ads - Let the Nose Lead
the WayCommerce tends to lead development,
which is why some of the bigger scentware
developers, like TriSenx, are partnering with
companies that just plain smell. Perfume
manufactures are an obvious fit. They would be
able to benefit from doing market research across
the net, emailing you samples of some new
fragrance they might be trying out to see how you
like it, and using your feedback to shape the final
product. And the heck with scratch-and-sniff cards
in your favorite magazine. Now you’ll smell their
latest and greatest when arrive at your favorite
women’s website or online boutique.
Online Interactive Games
Imagine smelling the scent of an opponent in
an interactive online role-playing game or smelling
the damp cave your character is trapped in. Games
with scented environments, entities and prizes are
more immersive and realistic. Scented games will
soon be the standard in interactive media, just as
games with sound became prevalent as soundcards
became common.
Communication
Scent offers developers as well as
consumers another medium for creativity and selfexpression.
Scented web sites, electronic greeting
cards and e-mail will enliven all e-communication.
With iSmell technology, you can travel anywhere
in the world or to any time period in the past.
Over the Internet
DigiScents technology will be used to add a
new dimension to e-commerce and entertainment
technology: adding scent to movies, online
advertising and interactive games are just a few of
the possibilities. "Online greeting cards will be one
of the first big plays. We digitize and broadcast
scent over the Internet and analyze the molecular
structure and sensory perception of an odor and
software-code it. The iSmell is a peripheral that is
the size of an electronic pencil sharpener; it
connects to a USB port. Its scent cartridge would
be like a color printer cartridge but with 128 scent
elements to combine. These elements will combine
to make thousands of scent combinations.
"Humans detect around 10,000 smells in their
lifetimes. We're going to create the primaries of
smell. The company is also creating a Snortal, a
first-of-its kind Internet site on which people can
create scented e-mail and their own custom scents.
Beta testing is currently under way, and final
products will be released in fall 2002.
Education
Tapping into Another Information Channel.
You need only to walk into a bakery or popcornfilled
theatre to realize the powerful ability of
smell to invoke memory.
It’s this power that makes the addition of
scent to the classroom experience such an
interesting new ally. I don’t know about you, but
reading about Shakespeare or Napoleon out of a
textbook was rarely inspiring. Had you given me
the chance to “interact” with history through the
sites, sounds tastes and smells of that time, you’d
probably have had me hooked.
Virtual field trips have become an
invaluable tool for bringing important experience
into the classroom where time or geography may
otherwise prevent them. The addition of Smell is
acknowledged as a tool that enhances the memory
of that experience, and amount of knowledge that
is retained because of it.
CONCLUSION
A Scent has a strange power over human
beings. It can create a mood, such as
foreshadowing or ambiance. It can intensify
emotions such as fear or love. It can also give the
sensation of virtual reality and suspension of
disbelief.
“The Sense of smell is closely tied to
memory and emotion, making scent a powerful
way to reinforce ideas”.
There are several streams over which this
digital smell is used, Such as over the television,
theater and the web. Hence we conclude that this
digital smell will revolutionized the world. And at
every place we will require this device, such as for
scented mail, scented movies, scented songs we
must requires this device.