Curious to know what wild ideas Sony might be pondering for the future of gaming? Well, you're in luck: it's just unvei…
  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    It’s it a box they sprayed some lab made formula in and are presenting it as smell replication for the sake of building up hype to grow their stock, but no new tech involved what so ever?

  • Computerchairgeneral@fedia.io
    22·
    20 hours ago

    It’s almost impressive how companies can think up the worst ways to experience games when they want to show something off at these events.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    37·
    22 hours ago

    Why on earth would I want to smell stinky fungus zombies? Stinky zombies are literally the thing I point to NOT wanting with Smell-O-Vision!

    Sony: “Pfft… You also said you wanted to see Morbius again you bastards! We be doing the opposite of what you ask for from now on!”

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    22 hours ago

    So like, hypothetically, if one wanted to play a “hentai game” with such a device, where would one be able to find this tech if Sony sells it? Hypothetically, of course, but also my friend wanted to know where exactly to find it so they could avoid it…

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      111·
      21 hours ago

      If you seriously want to set something like this up, you’re going to need a device that can emit the smells that you want.

      This instance of a device looks like it uses atomizers hooked up to different tanks:

      https://www.amazon.com/Automatically-Releases-Immersive-Compatible-Platforms/dp/B0CNMXSN2K

      I’d imagine that one run as many tanks as one wanted.

      One limiting factor is that scent isn’t going to immediately change when you change your virtual environment. I’d guess that emitting the vapor close to your face, maybe running a hose up towards it, would help. Probably want some kind of exhaust to purge the previous smell from the room. My guess is that the reason that the reason that a “booth” is used in the submitted article is to minimize the airspace surrounding the user and thus clearing time.

      Second, some form of computer control. Maybe some device that has relays controlled via USB. A relay is an electromechanical switch that can can cut power to an atomizer on and off, could run it to the atomizer.

      https://ncd.io/usb-relay/

      Those guys sell USB devices with up to 64 relays. I haven’t looked, but it probably looks to the computer like a virtual serial port, takes text commands.

      Then you need some kind of daemon running on the computer to send these commands at appropriate times.

      And lastly, you need some way to trigger the daemon when the game is seeing some sort of event. Could monitor the game’s logfile if it has one and contains the necessary information – I recall some Skyrim-hooking software that does this – take a screenshot periodically and analyze it, or identify and then monitor the game’s memory, probably either a technique called library injection (on Linux, library interposers are a way to so this) or using the same API that debuggers use.

      If the hentai game that your friend is after is Ren’Py-based – a popular option for visual novels, which many such games are – and the game includes the Python source .rpy files, which some do, then the game’s source itself could simply be modified. If it contains only compiled .rpyc files, that won’t be an option.

      You’re going to need to obtain whatever scents you want to emit as well. You can get collections of essential oils – the aromatherapy crowd is into those – and mix them up to create blends that you want, stick 'em in the atomizer tanks.

      One issue is that hacking it into an existing game is going to mean that the game isn’t intentionally designed around the use of scent.