Sony's Immersive Tech Concept Puts You in a Room Made of Screens Where You Can Smell Your Enemies | Push Square

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At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Sony has been demonstrating a new Future Immersive Entertainment Concept that aims to give participants a new interactive experience.

Though only at a conceptual level at this stage, a live demo allowed attendees to step into the world of The Last of Us and see it from a different perspective.

The experience essentially comprises a box room where every surface is a high-resolution crystal LED display, surrounding you on all sides by the game world. This, combined with immersive audio, haptic feedback, atmospherics, and «scent» aims to place you within an interactive environment more deeply than before. Yes, this means you'd be able to smell whatever game you're playing.

In a gameplay sequence seemingly made just for this proof of concept, participants are given a gun controller and aim and shoot at impending threats like Clickers. We'd be willing to bet they smell absolutely foul.

This isn't some new product or service that's ready to go, and is likely a long time from being ready for mass consumption. We could see this sort of thing popping up at theme parks or maybe arcades, but obviously given the space and technology required, it's gonna be an expensive endeavour if they pursue it further.

What are your thoughts on this conceptual tech from Sony? Would you be interested in immersing yourself in a game in this way? Discuss in the comments section below.

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I will not be fooled again so I'll wait until the Pro version of this tech comes out

Whoever smelt it dealt it....

Edit: @Czar_Khastik I can't wait that long, I'll get the