Virtual reality startup aims to create the
experience of eating — without the food
Could this possibly be satisfying?

What if you were able to be tricked into
thinking you’re eating delicious things, when
you’re actually just eating a gelatinous slice
of futuristic goo? Kokiri Lab, a company
founded by experience designer and researcher
Jinsoo An, recently launched Project
Nourished , a tech startup that aims to do just
that.
“By isolating various flavor compounds and
recreating their taste and textural profiles,
coupled with aromatic and virtual reality
diffusion — we can mimic a surprisingly broad
spectrum of foods,” reads the website.
Modern Farmer’s Dan Nosowitz explains how
it works :
The setup has lots of moving parts. You
wear the virtual reality headset, which
covers your visual sense. There’s a
special fork you have to use, as its
movement will be tracked by a motion
sensor, so that when you move the fork
up and down, you’ll see, in the headset, a
virtual fork moving up and down in the
same way. There are little cubes with
[sic] emit aromas. And the food itself is
created from low-calorie materials like
agar agar, pectin, and gum arabic, which
are natural thickeners (agar agar [sic]
found in algae, for example) that turn
liquids into solids, sort of like gelatin but
more so.

www.salon.com/2015/01/12/virtual_reality_startup_aims_to_create_the_experience_of_eating_without_the_food/

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