SensoryCo has released the SmX-M Scenting System to enhance its existing product line with an innovative solution that addresses the specific need for close-proximity scent interactions for training simulators, themed attractions, kiosks, exhibits, VR/AR and small experiential spaces. Introducing … [Read more...]
Can Olfactory Training Improve Your Sense of Smell?
The idea that you can improve your sense of smell might seem strange. Even the idea that different people have different strengths of sense of smell is probably something you’ve never considered. But studies have shown that olfactory training is possible to improve your sense of smell. … [Read more...]
SensoryCo Helps First Responders and Military Prepare with Military Olfactory Desensitization
First responders and military personnel are often in dangerous situations where they are assaulted by an ambush of sights, sounds and smells making it extremely difficult to respond in a rational manner. Research shows that repeated training exposure to these types of sensory overload can … [Read more...]
Stink Bombs … Literally.
We understand the power of a rancid odor. At SensoryCo, our team works with different scents to simulate real-life aromas, recreating the essence of the note that either appeals to the nose as a fragrance or alienates the sense of smell. Horrendous smells can actually “attack” the olfactory system … [Read more...]
Malodors Are Not Just For Training
A recent interest in malodors is not exclusive to playing a part in military immersive training simulations. In the past, scent effects have both been used to prepare future soldiers for the disorientation certain smells can create. As well, they are used to teach students how to recognize the … [Read more...]
The Smell of Asparagus in your Pee
Researchers have aimed to figure out exactly what causes our urine to reek after consuming a fair amount of asparagus. The question, it seems, is can we truly smell what we think we smell? Or are we even producing a smell at all? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi9i8ULtk4s For both theories, … [Read more...]
Sensory Technology Integration Into Immersive Training Simulators
Technologically speaking, everyone is obsessed with immersives these days. In the world of story telling, we've always recognized the incredible value in high levels of captivation. What's most interesting, but not all together surprising, is how the military is using this new wave in technological … [Read more...]
Scenting Technology in the Use of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for P.T.S.D Sufferers
War is not what it used to be. That much we know. The next question begs, how we deal with the psychological ramifications of our current era of warfare? There are many different ways we, as a society, have responded. Friends and family welcome our soldiers with open arms with hope that love can … [Read more...]
SensoryCo assists TEEX at Disaster City for a TX-TF1 FSE in April 2012
It’s about making things more real. When SensoryCo and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) paired up at the end of April in 2012 to incorporate the scents of nitric acid and GCS (a generic WMD, gaseous-like smell), we found ourselves amongst the rubble and residuals of … [Read more...]
Two Marines Walk for the Wounded, for the Fallen and for our Liberties
Adam Shatarsky and Christopher Senopole join in arms once again, except this isn’t your normal battlefield. Each step upon the pavement is for the broken, the lost, the stranded and the wounded. Their enemies aren’t the tyrannical, corrupt governments and mercenaries that plague our globe, it’s the … [Read more...]