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VR users feel more immersed in their experience - and react physiologically - when odor is used alongside audiovisual cues

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Overview of experimental set-up for the study.

image: Zone 1: participant briefing and post-gameplay questionnaires, Zone 2: the gameplay area, Zone 3: olfactometer, and Zone 4: the monitoring/supervision area. view more 

Credit: Archer et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

VR users feel more immersed in their experience - and react physiologically - when odor is used alongside audiovisual cues

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265039

Article Title: Odour enhances the sense of presence in a virtual reality environment

Author Countries: Australia

Funding: This work was supported by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Active Integrated Matter (AIM) Future Science Platform (FSP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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