Published May 14, 2021 - Protolabs: The Digital Thread
The Benefits of Smell in Virtual Reality
“When you smell something, especially a powerful smell and it's combined with the imagery and the audio and all the things you create memories that are very powerful and long-lasting.”
"We started the company with sort of the mission of improving virtual reality, increasing immersion. My thought was that better VR could equal better reality, essentially to help people with training, training in dangerous circumstances, therapeutic uses, meditation, mindfulness. And I think at the time we didn't really know what we were getting into. I think that we sort of made it and the gears started turning and we decided to take the company off at that point. And I haven't looked back since.”
Steve Konick from The Digital Thread podcast sat down with OVR Technology’s head of design Erik Cooper to discuss how OVR Technology was started and what sparked the idea for ION, our scent simulating olfactory virtual reality technology. In this interview, Steve and Erik talk about how ION works, how it’s made, what difficulties OVR Technology faced creating ION and duplicating scents, why OVR chose to work with Protolabs to manufacture our hardware, and what applications olfactory virtual reality technology has.
To listen/read the full interview, click the link here!
