Smelly Holodeck: how we created the smell of Bill Murray.

Our Sculpting With Scent prototype was a great success at the MediaSandbox 2011 Showcase in February. We developed a group of friendly table top objects for you to interact with, which contain a series of odours. The objects, or 'pebbles', shaped something like a larger Mac mouse, speak to you by giving off realistic scents, glowing, vibrating and triggering voice files. The idea is that you pick up the objects when they glow and vibrate, sniff them, hear the voice and be transported to another place.

We created a romantic cinematic experience inspired by scenes from Lost In Translation. This included the smell of the bar in the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo, the traffic in the heat, a Takai fish restaurant and a hug from Bill Murray.

We believe this prototype acts as a model to deliver other scent-based experiences to public places.

Find out all about our amazing smelly narrative experiment:

Here's our video and our blog.

My Moksha partner Darius Pocha speaks about the project on the MediaSandbox 2011 Pervasive Experiences panel