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British Army adds smell to simulation game
By Fabio on Monday April 27th 2009 04:33 | Category: Games
The British Army is funding research at Birmingham University where odors on simulation games are added. The games can be used for training and post traumatic stress syndrome to occur.
The School of Engineering of the Birmingham University under the supervision of Professor Bob Stone simulation games for the British army developed. The investigation of the games that Stone created in part by the Army paid. The latest development is that the team of Stone add scents to games, so they are realistic.
Stone uses the Scent Delivery System of the U.S. company Biopac, which was eight capsules can be placed in fragrance is included. By using an air compressor to blow on a capsule, a fragrance Friday Biopac provides various scents for the system, including fragrances suitable for military simulation that Stone wants to achieve it, such as gunpowder vapor, gunfire, burning rubber, waste, sewage, cigarette smoke, urine and sweat.
Stone and his team of editors to use existing games such as FarCry and Half-Life 2 in order to simulate war. The team is working on software at the right time capsules should control the odor. For example, the developers created a scenario in which British troops by an Iraqi slum walk and the smell of open sewage have influence on the perception of the player.
The army wants its software to use for training of soldiers to war zones are broadcast. The army also hopes that the returned soldiers could help suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome. The first simulation, which is very likely in May by the army will be brought into use, is SubSafe, a virtual reconstruction of part of a nuclear submarine from the Trafalgar-class of the Royal Navy. The simulation should future crew learn to deal with emergency situations.
It is not the first time that a game is used for staff training. Beginning in 2008, the NASA disclosed that the staff would train through an MMO. Earlier, the Dutch arm of Shell all the game "Sims Hell." In this game, that around the Unreal engine was built, staff could be trained in dealing with emergency scenarios rigs. A month ago, the British University of Warwick Digital Lab announced that it is working on a system where in addition to vision, hearing and smell and taste also affected should be stimulated. This research is experimental in nature than in Birmingham.
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