Haptic Design for XR using Unity3d & Interhaptics

Explore how haptics in extended reality (xr) enhance ui feedback, immersion, remote presence, awareness, and notifications, with practical examples across controllers, weapons, textures, and environmental effects.

Explore how haptic perceptions and technologies shape XR experiences by linking skin mechanoreceptors, tactile and kinesthetic sensations, and signals from nerves to meaningful touch feedback.

Learn how touch decomposes into four haptic categories—textures and friction, force feedback and stiffness, vibration, and heat—using Interhaptics' Haptic Composer with Unity to design immersive extended reality experiences.

Design and integrate friction-based haptic texture feedback for a Unity UI slider using Interhaptics, exposing 10% steps and end-of-slider cues through the haptic renderer and slider value.

Explore immersive haptic texture design for spatial immersion, comparing detailed texture replication with key-point friction cues, and learn to implement textures in Unity using the Interhaptics rig.

Design haptic cues for user awareness by using timed vibration signals that indicate spawning balls and danger, and implement them in Unity with Interhaptics haptic renderer.

Design and integrate haptic feedback for remote presence by crafting heartbeat patterns to convey emotional data via emoji like heart emoticons, with the haptic composer.

Design haptic notifications using temporal patterns to distinguish important from less important alerts. Use short, low-amplitude vibrations for non-urgent updates and long or repeated pulses for important alerts.