Protocols and APIs

Chair: Tim Szeto – Tim@hapticsif.org

Contact: Tim@hapticsif.org

Status: Active

Mandate: his Haptics Industry Forum working group is established for developers and manufacturers to develop industry-recommended specifications for the formatting of haptic commands. In particular, this working group will:

  1. Research and haptic protocols; identify and categorize common and disparate aspects between the various platforms
  2. Liaise between active working group to align features and implementations such as ISO, MPEG and Khronos
  3. Identify any gaps in current protocols and implementations related to current and near-term haptic peripherals.
  4. Align industry stakeholders on feature support for common haptic features such as multi-channel and HD rendering
  5. Publish specifications and reference implementations for the haptics community