The future may be online as long as technology is still standing. And digital reality is taking a promising role in that future. Nowadays, in the covid19 era, many people are experiencing online life in different aspects like education, work and even communication.

This era brings not the first pandemic, nor the last one for humankind. The future was going online even before this era. However, this era emphasizes it more.

Hence, what would be the percentage use of our human senses in the digital world to act, reflect, or perceive? Would they perceive and interact with the digital world with the feedback of available devices?

They could see wonderful videos and geometries. They could be under the illusion that they are listening to a 3d audio. They couldn’t smell online, although there is some research in that field. They couldn’t download food online yet. Considering the touch sense, the haptic, the ability to grasp or perceive, most devices give vibration feedback, neglecting that with a haptic feedback one could touch, feel the itch, the pain and the temperature. The temperature has a definition in science, literature and colors.

Also, many experiences in Immersive Virtual Reality IVR have dominant thermal feedback that proved its necessity so far; It comes with zero risks, saves money and doesn't require enormous installation. For example, welding and firefighting training, learning chemistry in IVR. Like dangerously mixing together too hot with too cold materials in digital reality.

Since 90% of haptic touch devices focus on vibration sensing for feedback this project explores another haptic feature which is the thermal feedback in digital reality experiences. Hence, Thermo-XR is developed as a smart wearable device (technological concept) that has several thermal pads that give synchronized thermal feedback in digital experiences.