Microsoft tested Xbox One controllers with built-in screens and the ability to emit smells

Microsoft's Xbox team provided a seven-minute tour of the new Xbox One controller on Monday, but the end result could have been a whole lot different. While it looks like an ordinary controller now, Microsoft toyed with the concept of including a built-in screen, speakers, and even the ability to emit smells. In an interview with Kotaku, Microsoft's head of Xbox accessories, Zulfi Alam, reveals that the company once created smell-emitting prototype Xbox controllers. The concepts let players smell foliage while walking in a virtual forest, or burning rubber during racing games. In reality, the prototypes left lingering smells in rooms. "We went all out," explains Alam, but they didn't work out in practice due to the overly immersive...

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