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The James Beard House joins one of the country’s most lauded chefs to make the case for VR meals.
He was blinded by an Oculus virtual-reality headset that kept him in a 3D, interactive world inspired by 1932’s The Futurist Cookbook. Parr saw only virtual sculptures where the food should have been: The tart became a gray asteroidal blob rimmed by an orbiting disc of red crystal debris, for example. After each bite, his virtual world transformed, imbuing a layer of narrative to the meal while playing with the senses. A 2018 Journal of Food Science study found that VR environments affect taste. A VR barn makes cheese taste more pungent, for example, and a VR park bench makes it taste more herbal.
See the full story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-19/virtual-reality-meals-come-to-james-beard-house-with-adda-chef