Haptics, or tactile feedback is rapidly growing today to become a standard part of a technology experience. But unlike audio and video technologies, touch feedback is very new, and only just starting to become widespread. The Haptics industry forum was created to help the greater ecosystem of haptics implementers, designers, and manufacturers through the creation of industry standards, recommended practices, and resources.
HIF members work together to create and support standards in various ways through quality and performance metrics, APIs, codecs, and more. We believe that well-defined standards enable a future of rich digital content that you can experience through touch.
Our working groups collaborate weekly in the development of best practices, performance standards, implementation guides, and industry resources. Through our working groups, HIF is proud to have established liaisons with other standards groups via IEEE, OpenXR | Khronos, and others.
Our members have articulated the standards strategy of Haptics Industry Forum. Broadly, we inten
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Welcome to the forefront of haptic technology in gaming! We're excited to invite game studios and in
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Haptics Industry Forum is excited to announce that we have entered into a liaison agreement with
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Manuel Cruz Appointed Chairman of the Board and President of the Haptics Industry Forum (Beaverto
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The target audience for this document is project managers, system designers, user experience designe
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On April 15th MIT organised a lesson focused on haptics in XR lectured by HIF board member, and XR h
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This document is intended to orient product and program managers working in the automotive industry
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This document is intended to orient product and program managers working in enterprise virtual reali
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The XR Haptics group submitted a high-level proposal for advanced haptics APIs to the OpenXR consort
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Now available worldwide on Amazon Buy Now on Amazon Book Overview The book, ‘Haptics in XR:
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