Internet of Senses

 

 

Context :

In the virtual office of tomorrow, touch, feel & sense, too

[ Chitra Narayan – Business Line – 29 Oct 2020 /  chitra.narayanan@gmail.com ]

Extract :

Ø  But can you imagine a digital workspace where you have moved beyond voice and video and are able to remotely get a whiff of the cologne or perfume of your colleagues or customers, sense their mood and feel the texture of the product they are showing in a presentation?

Ø  A decade from now, we could see the internet of senses brought into the virtual office, thanks to advances in augmented reality, virtual reality, AI, brainwave mapping and facial recognition, it says . “From mere screen-based connectivity, we could see the virtual office become a fully immersive experience with all the senses involved,” says Michael Bjorn, Head of Research Agenda, Ericsson Consumer & Industry Lab.[ michael.bjorn@ericsson.com ]

Ø  “The pandemic has become a digital tipping point, “ says Bjorn, describing how, compared to last year when Ericsson Labs did a report on the internet of senses, this year there is 25 per cent more interest in these kinds of services. This is because while work may be going on virtually, people miss interacting with others with all their senses, he says.

Ø  ….  and, thus, we could soon see the appearance of digital smell tech, taste tech and touch tech

Ø  Finally, as Sanjay Sarma, [ sanjay@design-worldwide.com ], founder of SSharma consults, says, “physical or virtual will not matter as much as a workplace’s ability to inspire”

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 Here is what I wrote in a report, 31 YEARS ago :

https://hcpreports.blogspot.com/search?q=smell+taste [ 05 Jan 1989 ]

The following developments will revolutionize the tele-communications:

 

* Very powerful supercomputers

* Artificial intelligence / Expert systems

* Miniaturization

* Optical computing

* Large scale use of optical fibre cables

 

Within the next 10 years, there will be,

- Generation / Storage / Retrieval / Manipulation / Transmission of,

 

- Voice

- Data

- Text

- Image

 

thru a single instrument.

 

Having covered the "Senses" of EYES and EARS within the next 25 years, the 3rd generation revolution will comprise the long distance transmissions of the feelings generated by the senses of:

 

- TASTE

- SMELL

- TOUCH

 

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As recent as 2 YEARS ago , I wrote :

[  https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/11/nostradamus-could-have-said.html / 08 Nov 2018 ] :

Nostradamus could have said ?

 

In twenty hundred and twenty four

A Sea of Waves will roar,

Light will follow Sound :

And, in Smell and Taste

Earth will abound ,

Brain will hide no more

Your secrets gore  !

500 years later, on  07 July 2017 , I re-envisioned above prophesy ( no doubt, cooked up by me ! ) in :

2024 ! – V 2.0 of Orwellian 1984 ? 

where I talked of how technology is on its way to capture ( from every human being ) ,

·          “ SOUND WAVES “ ( Audio )

·         “ LIGHT WAVES “    ( Video )

·         “ TOUCH WAVES “   ( Feel the SKIN )

·         “ SMELL – TASTE “  WAVES 

·         “ BRAIN WAVES “ ( EEG )   

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 Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  29 Oct 2020

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Added on 20 Dec 2020 :

The Internet of Senses: Sounds Like Me