Sam Wisniewski & Sarah Socia: The Future of Smell in Gaming, VR & Immersive Technology

Join Smell Expert Sofia Ehrich as she interviews Sam Wisniewski and Sarah Socia from OVR Technology. In this interview, they discuss the intersection of smell & gaming and how OVR's product is applicable across multiple genres of immersive gaming experiences. Sam Wisniewski is a Co-Founder and President at OVR Technology, where he works to bring scent into digital media and immersive experiences. His career spans investment banking, hospitality operations, and fragrance formulation, giving him a multidisciplinary perspective on business, sensory experience, and emerging technology.Before OVR, Wisniewski founded a boutique flavor and fragrance company developing products for food, beverage, and personal care brands. Today he leads operations, strategy, and commercialization efforts as OVR prepares to launch consumer scent technology that enables developers and creators to add smell to digital content.Sarah Socia is Director of Fragrance Innovation and R&D at OVR Technology, where she develops scent cartridges and olfactory delivery systems for immersive digital experiences. With a background spanning chemosensory research, fragrance development, and life sciences consulting, she brings a scientific perspective to how scent can be thoughtfully designed and applied within digital content, translating the science of smell into innovative scent technologies.Link to the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/omara/the-omara-scent-display-for-gaming/commentsLink to Website: https://www.ovrtechnology.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ovromara/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ovromaraTwitter: https://x.com/OVROmara