Their article: https://writetobrain.com/olfactory

In the end, our headset got a bit hacky: It ended up having a knife taped to the probe for mechanical support. At the time, all of our headsets had a knife taped to the probe, as untaping the knife lead to software errors.

I'm sorry what

you could reasonably encode the meaning of a paragraph into a 400-dimensional vector. If you had a device which allows for this kind of writing, you could learn to associate the input patterns with their corresponding meanings. After that, you could directly smell the latent space. A bit of ultrasound, a breath in - and you understood a paragraph.

I smell kung fu.

Im sure prolonged use is good for the brain

I wonder if this could work on people without senses of smell

VR porn with realistic smell incoming.

using invisible ultra sounds in a public space to make everyone smell my farts like an olfactory terrorist

the device directly targets the olfactory bulb in your brain with "focused ultrasound through the skull"

Fascinating! I never would have expected this outcome.

Will we finally get Smell-O-Vision?

The only real question is can we mod Skyrim to smell like cedar

Never underestimate the value of a college education

This is really interesting, apparently it's therapeutic for sinus symptoms, too!

So they're gonna be shooting ultrasound at me in the cinema so I can smell what The Rock is cooking?

The news really stinks lately.