Re: [vibration] Vibration related thread on webapps list

Maybe the vibration api could define a |Vibrator| interface and have
|Navigator implement Vibrator| so it would be easier for other
specifications to extend or re-use it?

-- Mounir

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, at 4:16, Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com wrote:
> fyi, There is a vibration related thread on web apps list…
> 
> regards, Frederick
> 
> Frederick Hirsch
> Nokia
> 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Resent-From: <public-webapps@w3.org<mailto:public-webapps@w3.org>>
> From: ext Brandon Jones <bajones@google.com<mailto:bajones@google.com>>
> Subject: Re: [gamepad] Haptic Feedback/Controller Vibration
> Date: March 24, 2014 at 1:04:50 AM EDT
> To: Patrick Martin
> <patrick.martin.r@gmail.com<mailto:patrick.martin.r@gmail.com>>
> Cc: Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org<mailto:public-webapps@w3.org>>
> 
> Mozilla has played around with gamepad vibration a bit already:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680289
> There's been some mixed messages, but so far the basic idea seems to be
> to either extend the existing Vibration
> API<http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-vibration-20140211/> to handle multiple
> motors (and presumably associate it back to a specific pad) or to add a
> very similar looking "vibrate" function to the gamepad API. Something
> like:
> 
> vibrate(int motorIndex, float intensity);
> 
> Personally I think that there's got to be a little more to it than that.
> For one, you'll want to be able to query not only how many motors a
> device has but have a way of expressing what type of feedback that motor
> provides (is it a heavy motor, etc.) and possibly some description of
> it's locality (The Xbox One controller has motors in each trigger, and
> the Steam controller has motors under each touchpad.) I have no idea how
> to concisely and robustly communicate that information. This also assumes
> that the device has simple X-Input style feedback, not the more
> complicated joystick force feedback that was all the rage in the 90s.
> (Which is far more complicated and fairly dead, so I doubt it's worth
> addressing at all.)
> 
> As for controller speakers, I see the argument that it's a type of
> controller feedback, but I don't think it should be conflated with
> controller vibration. I see them as two very distinct features. It is an
> interesting feature to consider on it's own, though.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Patrick Martin
> <patrick.martin.r@gmail.com<mailto:patrick.martin.r@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a reason that haptic feedback support is missing from the
> gamepad api? I feel that this would prevent developers from fully
> utilizing modern gamepads which nearly always include some form of a
> haptic feedback mechanism, (from the speaker on the wiimote to the dual
> vibrators in an xbox 360 controller). In order for this to work however,
> we need a mechanism for detecting supported "haptic feedback modes" which
> could then be used on the gamepad with the WebAudio API.
> 
> Here is an example of one such mechanism:
> 
> var ctx = new AudioContext();
> var rumble_audio = document.getElementById("rumbleAudio");
> var rumble_audio_source = ctx.createMediaElementSource(rumble_audio)
> var modes = gamepad.getSupportedFeedbackModes();
> var feedback_node = null;
> if (typeof(modes.RUMBLE_STEREO) !== "undefined"){ // like the xbox 360
> feedback_node = gamepad.getFeedbackNode(ctx,modes.RUMBLE_STEREO);
> }else if(typeof(modes.RUMBLE_MONO) !=="undefined"){ // like some pc
> gamepads
> feedback_node = gamepad.getFeedbackNode(ctx,modes.RUMBLE_MONO);
> }else if(typeof(modes.GAMEPAD_AUDIO)){ // like the wii remote
> feedback_node = gamepad.getFeedbackNode(ctx,modes.GAMEPAD_AUDIO);
> }else{
> feedback_node = ctx.destination
> }
> rumble_audio_source.connect(feedback_node);
> rumble_audio.play();
> 
> A system like this would allow both greater access to the controller's
> functionality and allow feedback to be dynamically generated or modified
> by the WebAudio API.
> 
> 
> I hope this suggestion helps,
> Patrick Martin
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:16:42 UTC