{"id":207517,"date":"2025-03-01T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-device-could-allow-you-to-taste-a-cake-in-virtual-reality"},"modified":"2025-03-01T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:17:00","slug":"new-device-could-allow-you-to-taste-a-cake-in-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-device-could-allow-you-to-taste-a-cake-in-virtual-reality","title":{"rendered":"New device could allow you to taste a cake in virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-device-could-allow-you-to-taste-a-cake-in-virtual-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novel technology intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection: taste.<\/p>\n<p>The interface, dubbed \u201ce-Taste,\u201d uses a combination of sensors and wireless chemical dispensers to facilitate the remote perception of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/taste\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">taste <\/a>\u2014what scientists call gustation. These sensors are attuned to recognize molecules like glucose and glutamate\u2014chemicals that represent the five basic tastes of sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. Once captured via an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+signal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical signal<\/a>, that data is wirelessly passed to a remote device for replication.<\/p>\n<p>Field testing done by researchers at The Ohio State University confirmed the device\u2019s ability to digitally simulate a range of taste intensities, while still offering variety and safety for the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel technology intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection: taste. The interface, dubbed \u201ce-Taste,\u201d uses a combination of sensors and wireless chemical dispensers to facilitate the remote perception of taste \u2014what scientists call gustation. These sensors are attuned to recognize molecules like glucose and glutamate\u2014chemicals that represent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}