AR to Trick Your Taste Buds
Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Researchers at Yokohama National University have developed an Augmented Reality (AR) visor that can trick your taste buds into believing that an item of food is more moist and delicious.
It is an established fact that human perception of taste is affected not only by direct interaction with taste buds, but also by the expectations created by sight and smells. The AR visor can thus manipulate the perception of taste by changing the way that light bounces off an object, in this case a piece of food, and thus altering one’s expectations.