Researchers Induce Smells With Ultrasound, No Chemical Cartridges Required (www.uploadvr.com)

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 37 points 4 months ago

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

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 months ago

the hardware equivalent of "I have no idea what this section of the code does but if you remove it, it breaks the app"

[-] cm0002@lemdro.id 12 points 4 months ago

It's the endgame to "load bearing line of code that's supposed to do nothing"

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

It's written in CRAB —which is like C#, but sharper because knife.

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