Researchers Induce Smells With Ultrasound, No Chemical Cartridges Required

https://www.uploadvr.com/researchers-induce-smells-with-ultrasound/

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frongt@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 120d (3 replies)

Their article: https://writetobrain.com/olfactory

In the end, our headset got a bit hacky: It ended up having a knife taped to the probe for mechanical support. At the time, all of our headsets had a knife taped to the probe, as untaping the knife lead to software errors.

I'm sorry what

janus2@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 120d

the hardware equivalent of "I have no idea what this section of the code does but if you remove it, it breaks the app"

cm0002@lemdro.id · 12 pts · 120d

It's the endgame to "load bearing line of code that's supposed to do nothing"

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 120d

It's written in CRAB —which is like C#, but sharper because knife.

Jilanico@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 120d

you could reasonably encode the meaning of a paragraph into a 400-dimensional vector. If you had a device which allows for this kind of writing, you could learn to associate the input patterns with their corresponding meanings. After that, you could directly smell the latent space. A bit of ultrasound, a breath in - and you understood a paragraph.

I smell kung fu.

MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 120d (1 reply)

Im sure prolonged use is good for the brain

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 4 pts · 120d

From the article:

no one has ever done this before, even in animals.

kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 120d

I wonder if this could work on people without senses of smell

MBech@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 120d

VR porn with realistic smell incoming.