NAB 2012: The bleeding edge of broadcast technology lets you smell TV

LAS VEGAS – The newly established NAB Labs (actually, it’s kind of hard to believe there hasn’t always been an NAB Labs to push technology, but…) had space set aside on the NAB Exhibit Floor in the North Hall this year called the International Research Park, which was a little mind blowing in some instances – and also featured fair bit of Canadian content. We’ll get to that in a minute because what most people were talking about were two experimental technologies from Japan’s National Institute for Information and Communications Technology (NICT), a fully immersive 3DTV sensory experience where viewers,...