SNORTAL: -
Snortal will be the Internet's first a scent-enabled Web portal. Visiting the Snortal, you will be able to send scented e-mail, design and register your own smells, and create and share ScentTracks for your favorite movies and music.
The Snortal was developed for DigiScents as a portal to scented products, features, and entertainment. I collaborated closely with the president, CEO, marketing and sales teams, a technical lead, and a creative lead to develop this interface.
The goal was to create a space where people of all ages can feel as though they are on vacation, having fun. The look was appropriated into all marketing collateral, including press folders and greeting cards.
SCENT REGISTRY: -
To ensure odor authenticity, DigiScent has created a ``Scent
Registry,'' a digital index of thousands of scents that the company will license to developers to integrate into games, Web sites, advertisements, movies and music.
There is real science behind all this. Bellenson, who once ran a Stanford University lab specializing in DNA synthesis, has drawn up models for the way odor molecules bind with the some 10 million odor-detecting neurons on a human nose, a step toward establishing the Scent Registry that will underpin the concept.
DigiScent's founders hope that by licensing their scent spectrum, they will create a world of smells for the Internet generation – perfumes you can smell online, computer games with the whiff of the jungle or the tang of jet fuel, movies that give audiences the scents of an autumn bonfire.
DATA BASE REMINISCENTS: -
ScentObjets can be incorporated in many applications multimedia, for which a license will be required.
Whatever the smell that we are the license for can be entered in the ReminiScents data base file.
SCENTTRACKS: -
ScentTracks is software. By using this software you can edit the smell, create the smell, create scented greeting cards, add smell for the movies or songs for all these operation there are some tools are given which user can use.
File menu:
In this file menu they have given new, open, close, save, save as, search, exit, etc. By these new menu of the ScentTracks user can create several new smells. He has provided certain chemical reaction and on that basic he can easily create smell. By these save and save as menu user can save these smell in the form of chemical reaction.
Greeting menu:
In this menu user has provided the tools used for greetings menu. Such as pictures as clip art, word art, chart, etc. The created smell or ready smell can be attached to the greeting. Such that when greeting opens it will produce the sweet smell.
Editor:
In editor menu they have given the editor for both the movies as well as for songs. By using this editor you can add and delete smell at a particular place in a movie or song. So that when that song continues at particular place it will produce that inserted smell. But for that we require different players. Currently they were making “Real Player” for that smell.
SDK: -
Set of tools to create content with aroma, includes ReminiScents Database, API and DLL of iSmell and him servant and client of ScentStream.
The fields that could be seen modified are the entertainment, foods, fragrances and fashion, home and hygiene, science, technology, trips and education, since it would be possible to be induced knowledge or to be forced reactions through the aroma, which can mean the following revolution.
Although the expectation is very interesting, we must hope to see if this technology really takes force, since it will have to break with several paradigms of the user with respect to his form to visualize the multimedia. To see when it is the turn of the Virtual reality?
Digiscents Launched a Scentware Developers Kit -- Sdk -- at Game Developers Conference.
The SDK is incredibly easy to implement, we expect to see an explosion of scent enabled content. “Using the ScentWare(TM) SDK, a developer can scent enable a game within an hour,” said DigiScents Director of ScentStream(TM) Technology, Cooksey Thomas, who previously developed the Sega Dreamcast's audio API. "The SDK contains all we need to create killer scented games that allow gamers to smell environments, entities, and prizes."
EXAMPLES: -
Examples of scent associations that can be coded into game ScentTracks(TM) are: -- Worlds and Environments (a cave, the beach, forest, watering hole) -- Entities (Lara Croft's perfume, smell of hidden Pokemon(R), the odor of the enemy) -- Prizes (bananas, coins, elixirs) -- User Actions (invoking magic, firing a gun) -- Events (tires melting, explosion, change of weather)
The ScentWare(TM) SDK features: --
- Intelligent Scent Rendering –
- Adjustable Scent Parameters –
- ReminiScents(TM) Database of ScentObjects(TM) –
- iSmell(TM) Emulator –
WDK: -
The ScentWare Web Development Kit (WDK) gives you the tools to provide unforgettable scented online experiences. Scenting your Web site is fast and easy with the ScentWare WDK. Using your favorite leading web editing tools, you can add ambient and click 'n' sniff scents to your web site or flash presentation in just minutes. The only hard part about scenting your web site is choosing between chocolate, orange, pine forest, the ocean, perfume, flowers, new car…the list goes on.
WDK Ingredients: -
- 2 ScentWare ActiveX controls
- ScentWare Netscape plug-in
- Flash presentation support
- RealNetworks plug-in
- Adjustable scent parameters
- Example scented web pages
- Full documentation & discussion forum and support
Technical Overview: A WDK That Makes Scents
The DigiScents Web Developers Kit or WDK is a group of interoperable components that allow Web designers to implement click-and-sniff Web pages using a variety of methods. Components can be used within Web pages targeted for either Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. The kit includes a scriptable Netscape Plug-in Control that can be used to target Netscape Navigator browsers and two ActiveX Controls that can be used to target Internet Explorer browsers. As development progresses all of the media players and major browsers will be supported. The WDK v.1 release will allow web designers to experiment with the enabling technologies and prepare content now in order that it will be available when the iSmell becomes available to mass consumers. A number of licensing options are available to allow commercial enterprises of all sizes to participate in the Revolution of the Sense.To allow the designers to preview their work the WDK comes with a software emulation of the iSmell device, the emulation appears as a message dialog box that names the scent emitted and its intensity. Web art can be scented in many different ways.
CLICK 'N' SNIFF
This method causes the user’s iSmell device to emit a scent when any scent-enabled element is clicked. Click ‘n’ sniff can be implemented by using any of the ScentWare WDK components.
AMBIENT SCENTS
Pages can also automatically emit scents either when the page is loaded creating an ambient scent on rollover or on a timer using JavaScript.
SCENTED MULTIMEDIA
Any Web technology that supports scripting i.e. Flash, Shockwave, Director, Microsoft Media player etc.. Can use a scripted implementation of the ActiveX control. DigiScents has created two ActiveX controls to meet different web page design needs.
GRAPHICAL BUTTON CONTROL
A richly configurable, graphical button control named AxScent Button leverages all graphical web page development tools. This control only supports Internet Explorer and provides a rich set of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) property page settings for the web designer. The rich button supports multiple button states, styles and colors. The button can also be used as a non-scented button for maximum artistic design flexibility. Using a design time container such as Go Live, Dream weaver, FrontPage, among others, the designer has access to the control’s graphical and scent property pages. The button control inherits its default color and font values from the page into which it is inserted. The control may have to be added to the toolbox of your particular authoring tool and will generally be available under the category of ActiveX controls. Currently this control is supported only under Internet Explorer. The property pages allow the web programmer to set parameters that affect how the button will appear, which scent will be emitted, and the strength of the emitted scent.
SCRIPTABLE CONTROL
A scriptable control will allow practically any application or event to emit scents. This simple windowless control is designed for maximum script ability using JScript, JavaScript and VB Script.
Netscape support is added via a Netscape plug-in with a programmatic interface that is identical to the AxScentPlayer ActiveX (scriptable) control. This will allow designers to implement click-and-sniff through the use of Netscape’s embed tag and JavaScript. Flash games and animations can be scent enabled by using the FSCommand method to incorporate scent into downloadable game content.
STREAMING SCENT: -
MICROSOFT ADVANCED STREAMING FORMAT (ASF)
Microsoft ASF streaming media is easy to scent enable using the scriptable ActiveX control, this allows the use of the Windows Media File (WMF) tool chain for authoring scent enabled streaming media over the Web.
REALNETWORKS: -
DigiScents is a development partner of RealNetworks and has developed a set of player and server plug-ins enabling the RealPlayer to present scent-enabled content. This plug-ins are included in the WDK v.1 release. The RealNetworks ActiveX control and RealPlayer allow the presentation of singular ScentObjects as well as aggregated groups of ScentObjects (ScentTracks) that play in synchronization with other RealNetworks compatible data types. Scent streams are currently supported in the Synchronized Media Integration Language, SMIL and will be supported in major SMIL authoring tools shortly. This means that scent can be smoothly integrated into RealPlayer or Real ActiveX media presentations using SMIL files as the synchronization medium for parallel streams. Using the Real Networks ActiveX method the designer can choose to either show or hide the controls transport interface as opposed to the Real Player, which will always display its interface
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