Emerging Thermal Technology Enabled Augmented Reality

In the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in domain of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR). The need for realistic and immersive augmentation propelled development haptics interfaces-enabled AR/VR. interfaces facilitate direct interaction manipulation with both real virtual objects, thus augmenting perception experiences users. level can be significantly improved by thermal stimulation or sensing, which facilitates a higher degree object identification discrimination. This review discusses technology-enabled summarizes recent different technology such as including thermo-resistive heater Peltier devices, sensors resistive, pyroelectric, thermoelectric sensors, utilized to improve realism augmentation. fundamental mechanism, design strategies, rational guidelines adoption these technologies AR/VR is explicitly discussed. conclusion provides an outlook on existing challenges outlines future roadmap realization next-generation thermo-haptics enabled reality.