Haptic Applications for Gaming

 

Portable Gaming

Stunning multi-touch displays continue to blur the lines between interactive entertainment and reality. The riches, deepest, and most engaging handheld gaming devices need touch feedback to provide multi-dimensional realism. Haptics supplies a physical connection that sight and sound alone cannot provide. Touch feedback heightens emotions and involves the player at a deeper level making the game more immersive, entertaining, and fun. Don't just play the game, feel the game.

Touchscreens and touch panels are quickly emerging as the preferred interface in portable gaming devices.  As these interfaces replace mechanical buttons, the role of haptics becomes even more critical to restore the sense of touch feedback.  Just as console gaming benefits from realistic touch feedback effects, portable gamers can fully immerse themselves in haptic-enabled games with realistic explosions and dynamic bouncing balls, and simply have more fun.

Immersion has a number of tactile feedback solutions for portable gaming devices:

• TouchSense 2000 provides a drop-in solution for haptic effects for mass market products using lightweight touch surfaces or touchscreens for handheld gaming.
• TouchSense 3000 offers an easy to integrate solution for mobile phones, tablets, and gaming handhelds that includes an open API that allows software developers to integrate haptic effects into their applications.

Joysticks, Wheels & Gaming Controllers

Immersion’s TouchSense Force Feedback technology frequently referred to as “Rumble technology” simulate real-world phenomena. Experience the smack of a tennis ball, the juttering jolts of firing an assault rifle, the tension in the line as you reel in that fish or the heavy G’s as you turn a corner on a race track.  Immersion’s TouchSense Force Feedback is integral for many game genres, and has been widely adopted in peripherals and applications for gaming console and PC gaming peripherals, such as joysticks, wheels and gaming controllers.  With TouchSense Force Feedback, Immersion helps gaming licensees add haptic feedback to gaming products, so the user experience is more immersive, realistic, and fun.

Imagine the excitement when cornering through high-speed, g-heavy turns, experience traction loss as you spin out of control, and then a powerful jolt as you smash into a street barrier. Force feedback effects recreate these sensations with jaw-dropping realism offering the most immersive, entertaining, and more importantly, fun gaming experience.  Immersion offers an SDK for gaming developers to easily integrate haptic effects into their PC and console games.

Arcade & Simulation

Nothing adds excitement and realism to driving and flying like the addition of force feedback in steering wheels and joysticks. Immersion’s TouchSense® Force Feedback electronics lets simulators and arcade games provide tactile and kinesthetic realism for an immersive user experience. Immersion force feedback lets you think big and create wildly fun and interactive user experiences and environments for virtual Formula One racers to Space Shuttles. 

Casino Gaming

Arcade and Casino games are increasingly relying on touchscreens interfaces to deliver more rich and interactive user experiences.  Haptics can provide a more engaging experience by providing reassuring touch confirmation, as well as the added excitement and realism of tactile effects during interactive play.

Large displays for use in arcades and casinos require a haptics solution that is optimized for fidelity and strength in demanding applications and extreme environments.  For Industrial Strength haptics for use in heavy screens, we recommend the TouchSense 1000 Series.