GameScent Is A New Device That Lets You Smell Your Games As You Play Them

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As it becomes harder and harder to imagine how studios will possibly make games look more realistic than they already do, developers are trying to find new ways to further immerse players in their games. Some are pushing VR, letting people feel like they are quite literally stepping into some of their favorite games. PlayStation has used the DualSense to further immersion, its haptic feedback letting you feel certain elements of your game. Now, thanks to the GameScent, not only can you see, hear, and feel your games, but you can smell them too.

Compatible with consoles, PC, and VR, the GameScent is loaded with cartridges designed to replicate various smells you might come across while gaming. The device uses AI to determine when those scents should be released as you play. If you're locked in a firefight, bullets flying around you, a scent matching that situation will fill the room. It can also make it smell like you're sailing through a storm in Sea of Thieves, or trapsing through a forest on Pandora.

The GameScent can emit five different smells, scents designed to replicate what an explosion smells like and the aroma of a racetrack joining the three already mentioned above. GameScent has already promised some of the follow-up smells coming to its device in the future too, the ocean, the smell of freshly cut grass, and blood among them. Unsure what blood smells like or how the team who determined that and replicated it for the video game world have managed to achieve it, and I'm not sure I want to know.

The GameScent is a device that quite literally lets you smell your video games. Emitting scents that replicate the action on-screen, the GameScent will kick in when there's an explosion, if you're on a race track, and sailing through a storm, among other things.

With different scents to release, potentially one after the other, GameScent also has a function that attempts to ensure they don't mix. Its Clean Air function neutralizes the room you're gaming in, making