From stinky to cookies: US firm creates scents for virtual reality games, military training

Taylor Oxford mixes the scents of Raw Seafood, Fire Damage, and Cordite - to make a scent of fire in a fish market - at Global Technology Integrators, on Monday, December 10, 2018. The local manufacturing firm produces different scents that can be embedded within virtual reality experiences so that those going through a particular scene get an even larger dose of realism. It's an emerging trend in VR. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

In a tiny office in east Orange County, a company called Global Technology Integrators is creating thousands of smells meant to bring even more life to virtual reality. 

And that means the hallway that leads to GTI's office can smell like chocolate chip cookies – or something really, really foul.