Dave Stiller

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About Dave Stiller

With 15+ years of experience across technology, investing, and executive leadership, David Stiller is CEO of OVR Technology, a pioneer in digital scent. He’s leading the charge to make digital experiences more immersive, emotional, and human—by reintroducing the sense of smell. Scent—our oldest and most primal sense—is also our strongest link to the emotional and memory centers of the brain. Scent is sticky, and yet it has been largely overlooked in the digital revolution. The challenge has always been technical: how do you deliver scent quickly, without lingering aromas, and in a way that responds to user interaction in real time? OVR has solved this with Omara—a first-of-its-kind scent device, about the size of an AirPods case, that replicates how scent behaves in nature to create a personalized, immersive scent experience. In short: Omara does for scent what headphones did for sound. Omara is a platform technology backed by research and protected by patents, designed to add measurable value to digital experiences. Our first market is PC gaming, where users actively invest in new hardware to increase joy, immersion, and engagement. Much like the Nintendo Rumble Pak introduced a new era of haptic feedback—eventually leading to the accelerometer becoming a standard component in every smartphone—Omara is putting scent on the map as the next essential sense in digital media. At OVR, a collaborative team of scientists, engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs is united by a shared belief: that scent has the power to deepen connection, emotion, and memory in digital worlds. Together, we're unlocking its potential through innovative, human-centric design.