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03.05.09This World Stinks: Adding Sense to Virtual WorldsWired reports that researchers are working to add touch, taste and smell to virtual worlds, dubbing the effort "real virtuality" to differentiate it from virtual reality, virtual worlds, world realities, really real, virtually real, and smell-o-rama. The technology clearly will not be a mobile application, unless you don't mind plugging a helmet into your iPhone. Says Alan Chalmers of the University of Warwich Digital Lab: "The crucial thing for 'real virtuality' is that it will hit all five senses in a highly realistic manner. You can't ignore the crossmodal effect. We need to have smell, we need to have taste." Um. We ...
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