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Multisensory Cinema Adds Smell and Touch to VR Worlds

“What is reality to you?” asked a tall young man as I entered a tiny house at the entrance of Tower Hamlets Cemetery in East London. Charles Michel, a chef-in-residence and researcher at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University, was about to induct me into a multisensory cinematic VR experience dubbed the “the Feelies” as part of this week's Shuffle Festival.

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