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Smell could be the last frontier in making games more immersive and realistic

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Video games have often been a feast for the visual senses, but smell has been left out. At the NeuroGaming Conference and Expo, some visionaries are talking about how to incorporate the sense of smell into games so that entertainment can become even more engaging, immersive, and realistic in the future. They’re trying to create digital devices that can insert smell into games as we play them.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.