Gallery: Forget Virtual Reality. Are You Ready for Virtual Sushi?

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    A small Los Angeles-based team of designers, engineers, and chefs have cooked up a "gastronomical virtual reality experience" that use head mounted displays, 3-D printers, and food science to take aim at our tastebuds.
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    Diners will don a pair of virtual reality googles and be transported to a place where the Jello-like wedge placed before them is transformed into a sumptuous slice of apple pie.
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    "After experimenting with sous vide and molecular gastronomy, I wanted to see if there are other ways for us to consume food," says project creator Jinsoo An.
  • Project Nourished draws lessons from vegan foods to help approximate texture flavor and mouthfeel.
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    Project Nourished draws lessons from vegan foods to help approximate texture, flavor, and mouthfeel.
  • Computer vision helps make the experience look real and an aromatic diffuser appeals to diner's olfactory senses.
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    Computer vision helps make the experience look real and an aromatic diffuser appeals to diner's olfactory senses.
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