“Lotus: Enhancing the Immersive Experience in Virtual Environment with Mist-based Olfactory Display”
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- Lotus: Enhancing the Immersive Experience in Virtual Environment with Mist-based Olfactory Display
Description:
With the advance of virtual reality (VR) headset and haptic technologies, users can have a great experience when they are immersed in the virtual environment (VE). Although many research have tried to enable the user perceive the visual, auditory and haptic feedback in an immersive VR, a fewer of them allow users to perceive the odor from the VE simultaneously. Based on the five senses, olfaction is one of the human sense that can perceive chemical information from the environment, which is also important for recreating the VE. In the past, some research groups have shown the techniques of olfactory display. However, to create the olfactory feedback for immersive VR when the user moving around in the tracking area, where a moveable display or a lightweight portable device is required, due to the user’s nose is the only human receptor for perceiving the scent. Therefore, in this work, our main concept is to provide a steerable mist-based olfaction display and an airflow guiding module mounted below the HMD, which allows the user to face different directions without carrying the weighty liquid. We present Lotus, a mist-based olfactory display with an airflow guiding module for simulating environments with olfactions which can provide two kinds of VEs simultaneously for enhancing the immersive experience.
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