Razer Launches Free Haptic Authoring Tool for Quest, PS5, & More - Road to VR

Razer, the fashionable peripheral company, contiguous announced the escaped merchandise of the Interhaptics haptic authoring instrumentality which is designed to marque it faster and easier for developers to make compelling haptic effects for aggregate haptic devices.

Razer acquired haptic bundle instrumentality institution Interhaptics earlier this year. Having gotten its commencement gathering VR haptic peripherals nether the sanction Go Touch VR, it’s nary astonishment that the Interhaptics instrumentality is compatible with Meta’s Quest headset controllers, successful summation to PS5 and non-VR crippled platforms similar Android and iOS.

Now escaped for developers to use, the Haptic Composer instrumentality from Interhaptics provides a ocular authoring strategy for developers to physique haptic effects for assorted controllers and devices.

Different devices person antithetic types of haptic engines successful them which means antithetic haptic capabilities and antithetic methods for triggering them. Instead of dealing with a antithetic haptic instrumentality for each controller oregon device, Interhaptics allows developers to physique and trial their haptic effects done 1 communal interface.

To writer haptic effects, the Haptic Composer allows developers to basal the effect connected an imported audio file. This works arsenic a starting constituent for a haptic effect that tin lucifer a dependable effect played successful the crippled astatine the aforesaid time. From determination developers tin iterate the haptic effect utilizing keyframe authoring and trial connected the existent hardware until they get the effect they’re looking for.

Presently Razer says the Interhaptics instrumentality supports Quest, PS5, iOS, and Android. Notably lacking astatine the infinitesimal is enactment for different large VR controllers similar Vive wands and Index controllers, arsenic good arsenic the different large consoles, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. While the Interhaptics instrumentality says it supports PS5’s DualSense controllers, it isn’t wide if this volition widen to the upcoming PSVR 2 controllers which see similar haptic capabilities. We’ve reached retired to Razer for clarification.