Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This device lets you SMELL virutal reality #vr”.
Okay, i see this thing around your neck. Tell me, who are you and what is this hi? My name is haptic solutions and this device, here’s the cilia all right hold on. I can barely hear you because it’s so loud in here you want to go outside and talk. Let’S go outside.
Okay, all right! This is much quieter than it was in there. So we’ll start over. I saw you walking around and you have this thing on your chest right and i’m curious what this is so first off tell us who you are and what is this we’re looking at awesome.
So my name is peter sassman, president of haptic solutions, and this is the cilia it’s a device for adding scents to your games, movies and other experiences. So essentially, we just have a cartridge full of these little scented oils and the device has variable speed fans that it can waft sense to you, while you’re in a game like um yeah yeah like the haptics for vr. So you could be walking through a forest and smell a forest or in a kitchen or something so one of the ones we have integrated with this neos vr. So you can be, you know, walking around the beach and smell the ocean or you know, go out on up here and you can smell popcorn and funnel cake and that kind of stuff.
Well, that’s really cool, so in kind of layman’s terms, if you’re not a programmer, how the heck do you interface this with your vr stuff? Do you put like triggers in your game that send a signal out to a board that you have there or what? How does that even work? Exactly yeah? We have plug-ins for unity and unreal engine that have trigger volumes, so you can place those into your virtual worlds and as your character walks in it triggers the scent and you can even get closer to objects and the scent gets more intense. All right, i’m just moving it around it. While you talk here, just kind of showing it off so um, so you can put in the volumes they’re like 3d volumes in the 3d space and it can trigger it. So it’s really easy to integrate this in with your stuff.
If you’re developing, you have in your hand, something there, that’s that’s the board inside it yeah. So this one here this is the board. That’S inside you can see it’s esp32 based and we have an expansion. Header, so we can do even more sense than just the basic, a very cool we’re, also working on other add-ons like this one here to go on that expansion header that could take like the little cap gun, uh paper strips and pull those through and set them Off to do give it that burnt sulphur smell yeah, exactly fireworks, very cool man, very cool. So where could somebody learn more about this if they wanted to play with it or or get involved yeah? So we have a website hapticsoul.com, it’s kind of here on my shirt, but i also have it here on the car. Yep hold that card up perfect all right.
So if you want to learn more, that’s where you get the info. Let me just get another peek at that. That’S interesting, so the scents come up out of those holes from these fans on the bottom that are pushing through the oils and the wicks very cool man. Thank you very much.
That’S awesome! Oh oh, hey! Here’S kind of a peek inside under the magnetically attached faceplate, very cool, very cool, all right man. Well, thanks for talking to me, yeah you’re welcome very cool. The interview you just saw took place at midwest reprap festival in goshen indiana, going on back. There uh be sure to check at our members area at make.co, there’s actually a full tour of the event uploaded there.
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