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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, seems to agree: when he outlined his predictions for the next five years of VR last October, he focused on these three senses. Smell has been used in VR PTSD treatment previously, he explains, but until now the difference it makes to immersion has not been quantified.