About ThermoForce

The Future of Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) is an extremely promising technology, one bordering on science fiction levels of futurism, that is not being utilized as well as it could be. We’re trying to change that!

VR is a way to escape the real world into something more fantastic. It has the potential to be the most social technology of all time
- Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus Rift

The Project

This project is being completed as the teams Fourth Year Design Project. This is a yearlong culminating project that all students at the University of Waterloo take part in. The goal of the project is to take an idea from inception to working prototype in the span of 8 months.

The focus of our project is low-cost inclusion of novel VR feedback types to realize the full potential of VR. We are realizing this goal by creating a VR system with temperature and weight feedback!

The Product

Our product allows users to reach new levels of immersion in any type of VR game. This is done with a glove that, when connected to any VR system, can track the user’s hands and automatically provide temperature and weight feedback.

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