{"id":40710,"date":"2020-03-01T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/?p=40710"},"modified":"2022-06-30T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:39:28","slug":"umss-nicholas-soucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/2020\/03\/01\/umss-nicholas-soucy\/","title":{"rendered":"UMSS20 Student Profile: Nicholas Soucy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nicholas Soucy, Physics<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>THED: Thermal Hand Experience Device<\/em><br \/>\nMentored by Nimesha Ranasinghe<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Soucy is developing a Thermal Hand Experience Device (THED), which allows users to feel thermal sensations in virtual reality on the hands. The sensations are both hot and cold and occur in real time. This will create a more fulfilling virtual reality experience, but it can also be useful in police simulations or even in physical virtual reality therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dreamed of a device that would allow users to feel a campfire, or feel the cool of a snowball before they threw it at their friend,\u201d says Soucy as he describes how the idea of THED came to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Soucy, Physics THED: Thermal Hand Experience Device Mentored by Nimesha Ranasinghe Nicholas Soucy is developing a Thermal Hand Experience Device (THED), which allows users to feel thermal sensations in virtual reality on the hands. The sensations are both hot and cold and occur in real time. This will create a more fulfilling virtual reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1286,"featured_media":40919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"\u201cI dreamed of a device that would allow users to feel a campfire, or feel the cool of a snowball,\u201d says Soucy describing how the idea of THED came to life.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[119],"tags":[55,53,49],"class_list":["post-40710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-umss-student-profiles-2020","tag-physics","tag-student-profile","tag-umss20"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":119,"label":"UMSS Student Profiles 2020"}],"post_tag":[{"value":55,"label":"Physics"},{"value":53,"label":"Student Profile"},{"value":49,"label":"umss20"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/458\/2020\/03\/soucy-1024x578.jpg",1024,578,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":119,"name":"UMSS Student Profiles 2020","slug":"umss-student-profiles-2020","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":119,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":52,"count":23,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":119,"category_count":23,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UMSS Student Profiles 2020","category_nicename":"umss-student-profiles-2020","category_parent":52}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":55,"name":"Physics","slug":"physics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":55,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":53,"name":"Student Profile","slug":"student-profile","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":53,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":23,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":49,"name":"umss20","slug":"umss20","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":49,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":23,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44627,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710\/revisions\/44627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/umss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}