Meta Cookie

「Meta Cookie」は、クッキーに対し、視覚情報と嗅覚情報を重畳することで、クッキーの­「風味」を変化させ、食べる人が受け取る味の認識を変化させるシステムである。カメラ­によって認識可能なマーカのついたクッキーに、HMDを使ってさまざまなクッキーの写­真を重畳表示し、さらに嗅覚ディスプレイによって匂いを付加する。この見た目と匂いの­変化によって、体験者が食べたときに感じる味が変化する。体験者はインタラクションに­よってARクッキーに重畳する匂い・写真を選ぶことができ、好みの味のクッキーを食べ­ることができる。

"Meta Cookie" is the world's first pseudo-gustation system which induces cross-modal effect to let humans perceive various tastes without changing chemical substances by changing only visual and olfactory information. Our system evokes cross-modal effect among vision, olfaction and gustation and let users feel that they are eating a flavored cookie although they are just eating a plain cookie with an AR marker.

Gustatory information has rarely been studied in relation to computers, even though there are lots of studies on visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory information. This scarcity of research on gustatory information has several reasons. One reason is that gustatory sensation is based on chemical signals, whose functions have not been fully understood yet. Another reason is that perception of gustatory sensation is affected by other factors, such as vision, olfaction, thermal sensation, and memories. Thus, complexity of cognition mechanism for gustatory sensation as described above makes it difficult to build up a gustatory display. Our research utilizes the complexity of cognition mechanism for gustatory sensation, in order to create a pseudo-gustatory display, which induces cross-modal effect by presenting texture and scent.

"Meta Cookie" combines augmented reality technology and olfactory display technology. Merging of these two technologies creates a revolutionary interactive gustatory display. With this breakthrough combination of technology, we realize a novel gustatory display system. Pseudo-gustatory display is a novel concept to deal with gustatory information in the area of interactive techniques and open up a new horizon for computer human interaction.

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[Spoondude]

If I somehow get cancer and noone can cure it in 60 years and I'm stuck with a fake cookie....I'm kicking someones face

[ClaraC1000]

This could be the greatest invention in the diet industry ever. . .invent taste without the calories. . .and I'm buying it!

[muscatgumy]

it looks difficult, it would make it so much easier if each cookie had a different stamp code...

[cvunit]

Fake and Gay. Bye.

[mgoremeier]

Soylent Green is people!!

[Marcelo Duende]

Please someone can tell to the Japanese people that it is FAKE and it won't work it out?

[vansonthefloor]

they can make 2 girls and 1 cup seem like theyre eating a gourmet feast! :D

[GiveUp44]

really cool experiment. Your video needs A LOT of work. I had to pause the video to even read your words, way to fast. Also very hard to read, a lot of white on white. . .