[HN Gopher] Haptics rerouting for fun and no profit
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       Haptics rerouting for fun and no profit
        
       Author : qdot76367
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2022-02-28 17:38 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | qdot76367 wrote:
       | Article/project author here, happy to answer any questions you
       | might have about this silliness.
        
         | gumby wrote:
         | Have you considered rerouting IO to different senses? Such as
         | rumble signals to audio, or for that matter audio to the number
         | pad? Or audio to a little external auxiliary display; rumble to
         | an LED or two?
         | 
         | People can retrain parts of their brain to handle changes to
         | senses in response to physiological change (typically losing a
         | sense) -- it would be fun to see if the same effect worked for
         | gaming.
        
           | qdot76367 wrote:
           | I've been working with this in VRChat actually, though
           | sometimes it's by accident.
           | 
           | I have a pair of Drop Labs EP-1 shoes
           | (https://droplabs.com/pages/product-overview), which take
           | audio signals and redirect them to transducers in the shoe
           | soles. Since I'm feeding in audio from VRC, it means I can
           | feel people talking in my feet, which is... a very odd
           | sensation.
           | 
           | Especially when they laugh.
        
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