The OVR Technology Blog

Want To Smell in Virtual Reality? A Burlington-Based Startup Has The Technology “What we wanted to do was, as accurately as possible, recreate how we experience smell in the real world in the virtual world" March 15, 2022 Mikaela LeFrak WBUR The Virtual reality market is growing and now smell is...

Stress Reduction Tool Tested In MWISD “Olfactory Virtual Reality technology already is used to help veterans facing down post-traumatic stress disorder” March 10, 2022 Glenn Evans Weatherford Democrat “On Monday, school trustees learned of a new tool that invites the nose to join a visual virtual...

Scents Purpose in Virtual Reality “OVR Technology makes a device that adds scent to any VR headset. It’s got applications across wellness, training, and entertainment” March 3, 2022 Juliet Bennett Rylah The Hustle Co-founder of OVR Aaron Wisniewski chef and sommelier and founder of flavor and...

Tech To Feel the Metaverse “A company called OVR technology is already selling scent devices to corporate and governments that attach on to VR headsets to then allow the programmers of content to script smells into the mix as well” Febuary 4, 2022 Satvik Pandey Digit Currently, sight dominates the...

Meta’s Supercomputer Will Bring the Metaverse to Life "Imagine 7 billion people all defining and sharing their ideal sensory worlds in real-time?" January 31, 2022 Mayank Sharma Life Wire Wisniewski, CEO and co founder of OVR, says that smell deeply affects how we think, feel, and behave.

Burlington virtual reality company wins award in international competition "OVR is the first company with the right technology and the right approach to bring something to the marketplace that has never existed before and that is effective." January 31, 2022 Dan D’Ambrosio Burlington Free Press ...

Vermont tech company gets global recognition “OVR crafts a virtual world of limitless possibility” January 28, 2022 Adrian Pastor NBC News Adrian Pastor visited the OVR office in Vermont and tried out the award-winning technology.

VT company wins international award by using scent for virtual reality “OVR Technology, a leader in multisensory VR/AR, has won the AUREA Award for Excellence in Impact in augmented, virtual or mixed reality” January 25, 2022 Tim McQuiston Vermont Biz “Started in 2018, the AUREA Awards are an...

Future of Health: Meditation for Overachievers: Mindfulness Tech to Optimize Your Mind‍ “OVR shows promise in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) “due to the uniquely emotional features of olfactory processing and odor-evoked memory.” January 10, 2020 Crystal Hoshaw Healthline ...

The Metaverse, In Glorious Smell-O-Vision “Adherents of scent technology and extended reality are convinced that you can’t have one without the other. ‘There is a huge, very stark difference between experiencing something that has scent and something that doesn’t.’ January 8, 2022 Stephen Gossett ...