Taste-Time Traveller: Taste AR device that manipulates the time of food

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Abstract

The second author of this paper studied a method to reproduce changes in food over time by measuring changes in food with a taste sensor and spraying it with a liquid. For example, he has attempted to ripen the taste of bananas, tomatoes, and curry, and conversely, to restore the taste of ripened foods. Using this knowledge, we believe that it is possible to provide an "experience of freely manipulating time" in the sense of taste. In this paper, we developed a prototype system that enables this experience. When food is placed in the proposed Taste-Time Traveller and a dial is turned, the taste can be changed to a taste after a specified time has passed or a taste before a specified time. In addition, visual changes are also made on a translucent screen (e.g., a banana turns green or brown) to create the sensation that a time traveler is manipulating the taste.


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