Haptic Feedback in VRWith NullSpace VR

By Jonathan Palmer

What is this talk?

Haptic Feedback in AR/VR.

Best Practices of creating haptic content

Creating finer quality haptics

Our Suit & Developer API

Who am I?

Jonathan Palmer

Lead Game Dev at NullSpaceVR

How do I deal with Haptics?

Conceptual

Software

Practical

Gameplay implication

Diving Right In

Understand the Body

Normalizing Haptics

Understand the Body

Timing

Understand the Body

Processing Time

Understand the Body

Attention & Focus

Reusable Components

● System created haptics

● Code created haptics

● File defined haptics

Gathering

System Created Haptics

Traversal across body

System Created Haptics

Locally Randomized

System Created Haptics

Emanation

System Created Haptics

Finer Quality Haptics

Principles of Animation

Squash & Stretch

Anticipation

Staging

Timing

Exaggeration

Principles of Haptics

Interpreted Simultaneity

Attention & Focus

Relative Scale

Best Practices of Haptics

Understand the Human Body

Timing is important

Reusable components

Use systems to create complex effects

Understand normalizing haptics

Nodal Graph for emanation and gathering effectsNo gifs or images here.

Pay attention!

Moving On

NullSpace VR’s Suit

16 Haptic Regions

Built-in Tracking

Closed Alpha focusing on content & integration

Consumer & VR Arcade targeted

Audio to Haptic

VR Headset agnostic

NullSpace VR’s Developer API

Lightweight background engine (see Vive/Oculus)

Unity support

Unreal support coming soon

Code Defined Haptics

Create & play them in-line.

Combine effects to create compound effects.

File Defined

Multiple levels for construction

File Format

Tools for Easier Haptics

Nodal Graph

The Future of Haptics

NullSpaceVR will be open for crowdfunding early 2017!

Haptics as a field is moving forward

VR integration is getting easier

Thank youQuestions?

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Feeldelity - /fēlˈdelədē/

Feeldelity (n) - The accuracy or exactness that a user can understand and interpret sensations they are experiencing.

* Not an absolute measurement

* Behaves like attention & based on context