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How to use Haptics throughout lever interactions

3D lever with 3 haptic feedbacks

Our team has created a demo (watch it here) to show you how large is the spectrum of VR/AR experiences, and particularly to demonstrate how to use haptic design for interactions. In order to fully design your virtual experience and ease your haptic design, we developed a new graphical standalone tool to design, test and iterate your haptic experiences: Haptics Composer. In this blog post, we will dive into the implementation of haptics in VR development, with a focus on interactions with levers. By using Interhaptics, we built a demo showcasing specific applications of haptic design. The demo is highlighting the role of haptics in object manipulation.

Haptic design for interactions: the case of levers

Lever screenshot interhaptics haptics demonstrator
Picture of the levers in the Interhaptics Demo

When you create your XR scenarios, interactions can trigger events in your scenes, such as doors opening, pulling levers, lifting rocks, and so on. This is possible thanks to Interaction Builder, a plugin which enables a fast creation of multiple and unique scenarios. Our suite has been developed for a wide spectrum of controllers and hand-tracking system, particularly for integrating haptic design in your VR development.

Gif of a three different levers with three different haptic feedbacks into Interhaptics haptics demonstrator
Gif of three different levers with three different types of haptic feedback in the Interhaptics Demo

The nature of a lever is very peculiar. Once their interactions are defined, their movements are always the same. Nevertheless, in our demo, there’s 3 different haptic design for interactions, with 3 types of haptics feedback. In the gif above, the first lever represents a gradual haptics feedback with different limits. The movement is “quiet” until you push the boundaries. We can easily imagine its use in a car simulation as a hand brake.

Texture's haptic feedback design of the first lever of Interhaptics' haptics demonstrator
Texture of the first lever on Interhaptics Demo

The second lever is more like a gearshift. Its haptic design parameters represent a smooth rotation.

Texture's haptic feedback design of the second lever of Interhaptics' haptics demonstrator
Texture of the second lever on Interhaptics Demo

The last haptic design for interactions contains an amplitude at the limit to alert the player.

Texture's haptic feedback design of the third lever of Interhaptics' haptics demonstrator
Texture of the third lever on Interhaptics Demo

Haptic design: how to use it with combined levers

Unlike the previous levers, the combined lever demonstrates three different interactions with three haptic design compositions in the same structure. The up and down motion has just a few haptic sensations. It was designed to feel like a lever with small cranks. As you can see in the gif below, its interaction is performed with two hands.

Gif of a 3D lever hand interaction of Interhaptics' haptics demonstrator
Gif of a 3D lever into Interhaptics Demo
Texture's haptic feedback design of a 3D lever from Interhaptics' haptics demonstrator
Texture of the 3D on Interhaptics Demo

The left and right motion on the lever has strong haptic feedback when reaching preset limits.

Last but not least, the third haptic design for interactions shows how a rotating lever turns around its axis. With this movement you can sense the haptics feedback when a complete rotation is done. This haptic design for interactions mirror some movements that you can find in race games or adventures games built with Unity or other game engines.

Texture's haptic feedback design of the 3D lever of Interhaptics' haptics demonstrator
Texture of the 3D on Interhaptics Demo

Click here to watch about how haptic design works on any kind of movement and how it empowers your environment.

Extend your reality now by downloading Interhaptics here and design, test and iterate your haptic design for interactions.

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