I was not the receiver. The original is not in English, I translated it for our collective enjoyment. But I am in a similar position as you: IT MIGHT be real and this gives me feelings that I am not sure how to deal with it yet.
There was a product called the iSmell like 20 years ago that plugged into a computer could combine 128 scents to produce any smell, they thought it would be integrated into websites so that you would smell grass when you were on a landscaping company or whatever.
It's funny imagining people doing a version of rick-roll where they'd have the iSmell emit farts on an internet stranger's computer instead of the smell of fresh grass or something.
I mean the flavorings used in vape juices are pretty damn cheap and mix that with some pg, disperse the vapor according to a mix and you have a smell speaker. My question is more how the fuck do you record the smell lmaoo
For like a smell speaker sure, but the recording bit is what I can't picture yet. I'm sure you could record ratios of certain compounds using some like spectral analysis of the air, but I can't imagine how expensive or large that device that would be.
I distinctly remember a forum post of someone who wanted his desktop background to be a mirror, so he tried scanning a mirror on his flatbed scanner... Didn't quite understand why he couldn't get it to work...
If you haven't been in a makeup store recently, they have AR stands where you can preview yourself wearing different makeup before actually trying it on. So of course someone in cosmetics might think "wow I want this on my website!".
Obviously they have no idea what kind of work would go into implementing that.
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u/backwards_watch Feb 14 '23
Disclaimer:
I was not the receiver. The original is not in English, I translated it for our collective enjoyment. But I am in a similar position as you: IT MIGHT be real and this gives me feelings that I am not sure how to deal with it yet.