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guys guys guys guys okay smell-o-vision

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it's real and it's awesome it's got these these vials and they're full of

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well some of them they're full of smells and some of the smells

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some of the smells are good smells some of them

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well let's just say they don't have to be good smells

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this my friends is the cilia developer

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kit from haptic salt a tool for integrating scent into your vr

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application or really any other content experience you

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can think of it's very developer kitty so my expectations

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weren't too high when we requested this thing but we're filming this out of order and

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i have already tried it and it does work

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first though the how inside this box we've got

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nothing but the cilia device itself some

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spare pods for your oils a usb cable and

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a power adapter now the cilia device itself is just a 3d printed chassis

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housing six individual scents with their own little partitions here and six

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individual fans see that cool right

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now you might think that these permeable membranes on the sense

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would be enough to have your whole room smell just from having them nearby and

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there is some smell but it's pretty minimal that is until the software tells

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the fan to kick in and blow it at you if you're sitting at your computer you

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would just pop it onto your desk and have it blow up at you you can actually

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see it's kind of angled that way

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for a standing experience though i'd recommend using the quarter 20 mount on

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the bottom and something like a light stand like this so that it's closer to

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your face holes if we remove this magnetic panel on the

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front here there's a single pcb running all along the back that handles power

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for the fans as well as for the RGB led

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oh my god it has RGB yeah it's for vr

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it's for vr you can't even see it you know what it doesn't matter the

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clear acrylic diffusers that are up above here are normally transparent but

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they're laser etched to help diffuse the RGB light which is a nice little touch

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if you're into that sort of thing and the same goes for the custom LTT front

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panel that the developer actually sent over for us the kit also comes with a full guide on

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how to get started integrating into either unity or unreal engine as well as

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some introductory info on the cilia itself the software lets you both set

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your led colors and manage your scent profiles for different games you can

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actually even make groups of multiple cilias and have a full surround

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olfactory setup with up to 255 of them

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if that was something that you would want for developers there's the ability to

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run virtual versions of the device as well allowing you to theoretically

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include support in your game without ever owning one and i've been informed

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that it's also just a nice to have when you spend your whole day working on a

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review of this thing and you just need a break from the sensory overload duly

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noted colin thank you so the cilia project is the brainchild of peter

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sassamin he's built a variety of haptic devices over the years like gloves but

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the cilia is the first device that he's made publicly available

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the first prototypes were actually pretty close to the final dev kit that

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we have right here only they used little

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pod air fresheners instead of these essential oil vials currently there are

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only two games that are up and running using the cilia sdk adventure climb vr

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and there's also a minecraft forge mod which my lovely assistant has loaded up

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on this little setup right here as far as i've been told it's working

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right excellent

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okay uh let's give it a shot i guess so uh

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so pop out of the control panel because only one thing can use the sdk at a time

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oh wait no i want to adjust my RGB first can i have more RGB i'll allow it

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oh yeah and then i want some oh god i don't know

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RGB color mixing how do i get uh it's basic color science Linus

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yeah your kids probably know this that seems RGB enough huh you know what's

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kind of cool is the RGB serves at least some sort of function like it makes it

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easier to see your liquid level functional RGB

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it's bound to be a first time for everything okay adventure climb to start

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i swear it's got to be working because i kind of feel like i'm outdoors

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like is this supposed to be an outdoor smell uh not yet so once you hit the

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begin level it'll start i could have sworn i smelt something

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oh my god i don't have long enough arms to play this game

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so as you get close to the water you should get the waterfall scent okay

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oh my god i can tote

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i can totally smell the water all right let's go oh god

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oh oh oh it smells like failure oh that's extremely disorienting

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it is way more subtle than i expected yeah it's pretty subtle in this game oh

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you say that as though it will be less subtle in other experiences well it's a

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little more binary in the minecraft plug-in got it oh i can totally smell

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the water now i think we probably cheated a little bit here carefully

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making sure that the scent was coming from the direction of the waterfall but

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it really does it really does it's that's

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it doesn't smell exactly like water but it's close enough that

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your imagination can fill in the gaps now my understanding is that it can

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actually mix scents if you find combinations that you like yeah so there

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there can be like items or areas so if you're standing in an area

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and then say a coffee gets thrown at you you can you can mix

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the two cents together because they're all individually triggered and what's really cool is that you know normally

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the way video games enter your senses is inherently unnatural like a display is

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never going to look like the real world but because

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it it wafts over real air to you like

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just like in the real world i'll get kind of like

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whiffs of the waterfall scent instead of it just being constant you know

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i'm gonna hit a wall and there you are

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okay well that's your first experience

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do we have like a pine scent or is that maybe mint no we do have pine and mint

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victory scent this is better than i expected

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this is this is my first time trying it colin's been the one to be like

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are we covering this or not because i was skeptical i was also expecting just

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having these aroma vials nearby would be

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distracting at all times but

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so from here you can smell it yeah it's not bad so like i had that sitting on my

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desk while i wrote this and it you know after eight hours it's a bit much

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um but when you're standing and playing in vr you can't smell it ah

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as i alluded to before you're not limited to vr experiences though so

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let's go ahead and adjust our stand here and we're gonna play some minecraft so

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depending on where you are like your biome will change what scent you smell

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so let's see if you can find a swamp or a desert

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okay sure so you're in forest right now i believe

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which should be yeah fresh rocky plant aka pine if you get to

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like the nether or uh the end you'll get cappuccino

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oh okay yeah and uh like plains or extreme hills you'll get

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fresh air oh really yeah okay well let's head down to the

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water first right i don't think there's any water smell being mixed in

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or at least there wasn't this is way less realistic and subtle feeling than

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the climb i think part of that is just a function of them kind of going full bore

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depending on what kind of area you're in and also vr is just more immersive but

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as a whole this is far more experience changing

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than i expected and like i love technology and everything i'm all about

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advancements but i was just i was a little like ah do we really need

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this but now i'm looking at it going like you know it is a matter of time until

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gwyneth paltrow's goop company releases you know certain kinds of scents here

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and all kinds of experiences are totally different than ever before and

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far more immersive what it's a matter of time and you know

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it what do you head over the jungle over there see the misty section over on your

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there you go so you went from green to blue oh interesting you've got different

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RGB profiles for the different biome profiles yes that's pretty cool

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yeah so i'm not positive there's actually going to be any mixing in here so you're right on the line of switching

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between the two so if you went back yeah you'll see it switch from green to blue

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all right hello there it is there you go yeah and i can

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definitely smell it like immediately i can smell the water smell so

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that's a little immersion breaking because normally that kind of water

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smell i would associate more with a waterfall

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like what we experienced in the climb here like

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just jumping into a puddle you don't get water smell you know can i

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get the cappuccino one in minecraft somehow there's a coffee mug in the

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unreal bamboo okay all right just hop over that one so this we're gonna see

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real combinations of smells so as you run around and get closer to things

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you'll see different smells if you get to the end there's a coffee mug you'll see it okay yeah

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it smells like adventure no i'm serious

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it's like uh like look are you thinking indiana jones or like you walk into a

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new place and it's just like ah you know

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oh don't fall in there don't fall in there don't definitely don't do that

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does it smell like fart or something you just fall through the map i've done it a bunch oh okay

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hot coffee mod oh

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there is a bit of a delay i think part of it is just how far away it is for me

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i think i would have it a little bit closer like like on my desk if i was

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really gaming with this thing but like it smells like coffee yeah so i talked

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with uh peter about this and he's gonna make some changes i think

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that we can increase the velocity of the air that's coming out so it should hit you a little

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bit sooner and then you could also perhaps have like a zone where it primes

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like it starts spinning the fan yeah and then cranks the fan so there's work to

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be done but the idea is that you know this is a building block it's a dev kit yeah another thing that needs a lot of

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improvement is of course the smell repository that you can draw from like

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our local candle and soap store obviously only had things that smelled

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nice and candles and soap they don't have like blood smell but that might be

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something that you would want for a for a gaming experience like it's amazing

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how immersive and effective the coffee smell is so having the right sense is

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key yeah definitely needs a little bit lower latency it's like it's funny to be

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talking about like latency and like like smell resolution too is something that

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could be improved especially in vr because i i could tell it was coming

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from the waterfall and that's something that you'd almost need like a motorized

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room to blow smells at you from the right directions for but give it another

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10 years i'm sure it'll exist yeah like some of the other scents they have are like gunpowder leather race fuel oak

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riding mower lawnmower vr that's got to be a thing it's a little rough around

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the edges and i wouldn't tell every consumer go and spend 200 on this as it

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is today but what cilia taught me for sure is that there is

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something here so where does that leave us well cilia's

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isn't the first hat to be tossed into the proverbial ring when it comes to

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adding scent to games of the handful of notable examples we'd be remiss to

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forget how back in 2016 ubisoft created

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the nausulus rift we actually covered this on the lan show way back then and

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it was essentially a marketing gimmick for the south park game that year which

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dumped fart smells directly into your nose holes

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hilarious but it was never meant to be a product that you could actually buy on

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the less technical side of things there was also a scented candle released for

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resident evil 4 which featured the smells of timber leather and blood

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ew but immersive the problem here is that those two

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implementations are either enterprise level built just to sell a game or a

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pure gimmick again to sell a game now there are some other commercial options

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available notably ovr technologies ion

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and the aroma shooter as far as we can tell though they're in

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a similar developmental stage to the cilia with an sdk for the major game

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engines but the downside is that they don't have a listing where you can just

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buy the device you need to email back and forth with the developer justify

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your need to help protect their ip i guess which makes sense then get a quote

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for whatever they decide to charge you as far as we can tell both of those

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systems use cartridges that aren't cheap to reload unlike the cilia where you can

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literally use any scent that you can find on the shelf we actually had one of

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our little vials spill in shipping and break through the plastic bag that it

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was double wrapped in so we visited that local soap company that i alluded to

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before and bought a little vial of pine essential oils for like three dollars

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that's a feature that i think is a consumer friendly and be pretty critical

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in a dead kit a little side tidbit during the research for this video we

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found a kickstarter campaign for a device called feel reel which is a scent

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curtain that mounts directly onto your vr headset that looked pretty promising

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initially but now it seems to be mired in legal issues in the u.s due to the

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fda banning flavored cartridge-based vaping products so i guess they're stuck

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as vaporware hey that's terrible joke good job anyway

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that makes the cilia as far as we can tell the only scent based device that

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you can actually go by right now no strings attached there

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aren't a lot of supported games from the get-go but the fact that this is

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reasonably affordable and comes with the software building blocks for you to

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integrate into your own mods games or other experiences is pretty promising

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does it really matter though i mean we had this in the script but

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going to have that link down in the video description below and if you want to check out some other weird vr gear

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adventures maybe check out our video about the vr chair that took three days

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to set up or oh the um the fan

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the gaming fan yeah that one was

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a game of thrones something it was a gaming fan