The metaverse stinks because it doesn’t smell like anything.
All this immersive, world-building magic that smell can supply aligns with what VR wants to offer. These days, VR's chief aim is to help users experience what it feels like to be someone else. It’s “a quest towards embodiment,” says, an assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology at Yale who studies VR. “And when we think about what the body is, it’s this compilation of senses, in an incredibly reductive form.
But the current state of smells in VR reveals a paradox: Unless its creators add smells to VR carefully, it risks amplifying the uncanny-valley effect, or what VR adherents call “breaking the immersion,” and further engineering out our humanity. Smell VR tech has made progress since its origins in the late 1990s, when Myron Krueger, who coined the term “artificial reality,” received a DARPA grant to. While the accuracy of smells and replicating how smells disperse naturally under our noses has improved, smell VR tech still faces basic challenges, like a limited number of smell cartridges that can fit into a headset, each with finite capacity.
But literalism needn’t be the goal. Adding smells to VR works best if it’s approached stepwise or elliptically. Our noses are difficult to fool—the number of smells humans can distinguish may be as many as one trillion—so it’s sometimes better not to try. Wisniewski recalls an OVR project in which they labored to reproduce a forest’s smell exactly, but users found it not quite right.
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