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Tasty Bits and Bites is a go!

 


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Awarded funding

"We are very pleased to announce that the Tasty Bits and Bytes project has been awarded funding by the board of directors of COMMIT/. This means that, starting this fall, we will investigate the use of mixed reality technology to enhance experiences with food and drinks. The Tasty Bits and Bytes project will seek active collaboration with a number of partners. We will use this website throughout the project to report on the progress, and to share interesting news items relevant to the project".

The people

   
Dirk Heylen   Merijn Bruijnes   Gijs Huisman  

The project

The current popularity of ICTs that offer augmented or virtual reality experiences, such as Oculus Rift, Google Glass, and Microsoft Hololens, suggests that these technologies will become increasingly more commonplace in our daily lives. With this the question arises of how these mixed reality technologies will be of benefit to us in our day-to-day activities.

One such activity that could take advantage of mixed reality technologies is the consumption of food and beverages. Considering the fact that the perception of food is highly multi sensory, being not only governed by taste and smell, but to a strong degree by our visual, auditory and tactile senses, mixed reality technologies could be used to enhance our dining experiences.

In the Tasty Bits and Bytes project we will explore the use of mixed reality technology to digitally (using visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile stimuli) enhance the experience of consuming food and beverages.

The project website

Tasty Bits and Bites

 

 

The video