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Researchers are using ultrasound to trigger smell directly in the brain for VR

1mon 27d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/JohnWorks in virtualreality from www.techspot.com

Links to farts will be the new Rick roll.

Smell-o-vision coming soon

That sounds a lot like a stroke.

One step closer to Nerve Gear.

The line is microwaves... Just don't cross it.

I don't think I want ultrasound in my brain either.

The joke is NerveGear is a VRMMO helmet from Sword Art Online.

The plot is the main dev removed the logout function at launch and set the helmets to microwave your brain if someone removed it. Also you only get one life. Nukes you if you die in the game. Helmets also have battery backup so you can't just unplug it.

I'm quite aware.

I really do not want to smell most of the games I play.

This area in DS3 would have most people gagging for air, what with the piles of rot festering corpses and giant flies littering the basement.

Can't wait to walk amongst the carnage of a battlefield. Or go down a sewer pipe as Mario. All Medieval games are gonna suck so bad. You'll definitely take better care of your Sims.

In the airplane that would be such a cool sneaky trick to play on passengers! You point it at the cute girl with the guy next to her. She smells fart and does her idiot nose pinching and smell swatting. Hilarious!

Someone did research, a few 2+ decades ago, which did ultrasounds on rodents, & then checked to see if any harm was done to the cells in their guts..

Cell-death was happening in their guts, at a too-high rate, as a result of the ultrasounds.

As any idiot can understand, if that's a normal effect of ultrasounds, that there's no visible damage, but that the cell-death-rate is measurably-increased, then doing that on not-yet-born lives may provide useful information, while damaging those lives.

& the same with turning the tech into a means of gaming.

( actually, typing this in .. I wonder what the correlation is between ultrasound & autism, since autism is definitely a kind of brain-damage, as my life has proven .. is there any population, anywhere, which doesn't get ultrasounded, & do they have a statistically-significantly lower autism-rate? )

The habit of presuming things, like food-industry chemicals, or ultrasounds, or whatever, to be safe, instead of actually measuring isn't competent, or evidence-based-medicine/science: it is .. profitable self-delusion.

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Ah, I was wondering if crazy people like that lady on the season 2 finale of The Pitt were real, now I know.