Hypnos
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Hypnos Virtual is a Little Rock, Arkansas immersive-media startup founded by Mike 'Kaz' Kaczkowski. Its product, Scentscape, is a neuroscience-based Bio-Media device that adds choreographed scent tracks to TV, VR, gaming and other media — a mini-fridge-sized cinema model promising millions of different scents, with an AI component to deliver the right scents at the right times. In October 2021 it was raising capital via PR to become a metaverse entrant.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Hypnos Virtual was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas by Mike 'Kaz' Kaczkowski to build Scentscape, a scent-based immersive media device.
- Metaverse push
Hypnos Virtual pushed Scentscape as a metaverse entrant, with a cinema model creating millions of scents and a Wefunder campaign.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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