In an effort to prepare soldiers for life in a war zone, the UK’s Minstry of Defence is developing a video game training system that incorporates scent. According to the developers, troops reported arriving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and being overwhelmed by the unfamiliar sights, sounds and smells. The sensory training aims to familiarize the soldiers’ senses with the authentic stimuli they’ll encounter when they’re deployed. The scent machine aspect includes smells like charred rubber, rotting vegetables, spices, sewage, and body odor, each released by the machine at the appropriate times in the video game simulation.
Read more at BBC News
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