"Friend Park"-Expression of the Wind and the Scent on Virtual Space

  • Authors:
  • Kentaro Tominaga;Shinkuro Honda;Takaharu Ohsawa;Hiroshi Shigeno;Ken-ichi Okada;Yutaka Matsushita

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VSMM '01 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a 3D virtual space system named "Friend Park" that givesusers a more definite sense of reality. With this system, users are able to get reality bygaining the information of the smell in the virtual space. Also, the new input method thatthis system support makes the users sense the reality better. First, we propose the generalidea of "Aroma", the area of "Aroma Aura", and the method of transmitting the actualsmell from a virtual space to real world. Second, to perform a natural way of input invirtual space, we focused on the action of "blowing". We propose the technique ofoperating the virtual object by blowing onto the screen and measuring a force of the windwith new device. The system evaluation, which measures whether users can get reality bythem, demonstrated that we have gained a better result by supporting olfactory informationtransmission browning behavior.