Thermics

This project focuses on investigating the relationship between people and their sense of invincibility within virtual environments when subjected to varying levels of perceived visual thermals, and thermal haptic feedback. There is little existing research that uses the term invincibility in this context, or that explores this concept in the space of virtual reality. We define invincibility as this sense of lowered cautiousness, which is theorized to be correlated with a lowered sense of presence and a lower level of virtual body ownership.