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sunexpress.com and secure your seats today it's tuesday august 2nd, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, virtual reality doesn't stink.

And that's kind of a problem. Why, virtual smell could take the VR experience to the next level.

Plus, a paper battery that's activated by adding water, and you could get paid

100K a year to sit on your couch and eat candy. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

For something that its most zealous proponents are constantly touting as so realistic, groundbreaking,

and capable of eliciting empathy in all new ways, much of the virtual reality world is still pretty

unrealistic. And I don't mean the fantasy or sci-fi elements of different games and experiences.

The graphics and gameplay just don't quite feel there yet for a lot of people.

I mean, in most VR, no one even has legs.

And legs aren't the only things missing.

As Jude Stewart explained in Wired on Sunday,

another big reason VR just doesn't feel

convincing yet is its lack of smell. Now, as a huge fan of anything smell of vision, I was

immediately intrigued by this argument, but even I've got to admit that most smell of vision

like technology is also lacking in realism. You know, scratch-and-sniff

stickers, perfume samples and magazines. Simulated scents often come across as the olfactory

equivalent of sound being projected through tinny laptop speakers. So that presents a danger for

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