Will the taste of the game make it more immersive?

The appearance and sound of modern video games are more realistic than ever.

However, there is a feeling that developers have not used-odor.

Imagine that like Mario, sparkling electricity attacks in the mushroom kingdom.

Or the last person in our last person-fatal, the tracked enemies are popular with the extinction of fungi.

James, a member of the Nuneaton Nitros e -sports team, said he was curious about some of the strange aromas.

James said, “I can definitely say that I want to smell something in the summoning of the mission.” James also wanted to know the atmosphere of the alien in the War Hammer: Space Navy Marine 2 “.

But he did admit that they might be “very grim.”

Players like him are currently being used to answer a question-smelling the taste of the game will make it more immersive and make you better play the game?

This is why the researchers demonstrated experimental technologies at the University of Volivk's innovation festival.

They have developed a custom headset that can provide a small -dose smell pumping through the pipe and scattered through the fan in front of the player.

Combined with Hollywood games, it uses many essential oils to copy various aromas.

BBC NewsBeat played an arcade classic racing race on a demonstration rig.

When we try it, when we are racing on the track, the smell of gasoline in front of the nose floats.

You hit the brakes, and you suddenly exploded by plastic rubber. When playing, you will also get the weak smell of “new car”.

As anyone who has a wet dog in the house will know, it is not easy to eliminate the smell once it arrives.

According to the researcher of the project, as the game progresses, the real challenge is to switch quickly between odors.

If you are facing the sudden transition between two comparison scenes, such as from the latter world scene to the memory of the day before yesterday, this may be particularly tricky.

Previous technology, such as the infamous smell, was struggling on this issue, but researchers believed that their “trace dose” method would overcome it.

But does it make sense?

Professor Alan Chalmers of Warwick University told Newsbeat that the technology is particularly useful for simulation, so that student pilots can use all sensory.

He said: “We are trying to create the environment that is as close as possible as possible.”

He said: “Smell is the key part of it.”

He said that using gamers to test this is very good, because “there are many volunteers who want to do this.”

But he also said that he can also see the potential used in consumer games, especially when the use of artificial smell represents the fantasy world.

“People want more immersive experiences.”

Large game companies are already sniffing new methods to make the game more immersive.

On the CES Tech display cabinet held in Las Vegas this year, Sony showed its future immersive entertainment concept-rooms with screens on the surface, can create a 360-degree vision.

PlayStation Maker said the experience includes the smell emitted to match the game that is playing.

Last year, I also saw the launch of GameScent. This is a box, which aims to sit next to the game PC or game console and release the smell.

Its manufacturer claims that it uses AI to find out the smell released and when to release them-including metal guns or flowers in the forest.

It has been sold as a consumer product, but it is still a very good technology.

More widely, how much questions about gamers care about making the world more realistic and immersive.

Although they are developing more virtual reality games and headphones, they are still far from the main way of playing games, and Sony is criticized for ignoring software to support its VR2 headphones.

The popularity of Nintendo's Switch and other low -standard machines also shows that it does not always sell the most realistic graphics of games.

But what is the judgment of the gamers?

When Newsbeat talked with some volunteers in the e -sports courses of North Wolk County and South Leicester County College, the response was usually positive.

The e-sports lecturer Shoubna Naika-Taylor said that it did make the game look more realistic.

She said: “I think this is very interesting, and is very immersive, and will cooperate with many games.”

“This is a very cool technology.”

Student Juris Kozirev said he can't always figure out what smell it should be. He said that the smell of oil may be the smell of flowers.

He hasn't felt that he is participating in the adrenaline race, but that these odors actually make him feel more relaxed.

“You don't like competition, you just feel calm.

“It is there, you are not very disturbed, but you can definitely smell it.”

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