Mark Zuckerberg is hard at work on next-gen VR headsets, and with this haptic gun mod, games like Half-Life: Alyx are taken to a whole new level of immersion. Inventor Robert Enriquez set out to accomplish just this, and it required countless hours as well as a few basic electronic parts.
Put simply, it’s essentially a VR controller that has been fitted onto a gun frame, complete with force feedback using a small motor that moves with each shot. Thanks to the Wi-Fi receiver and ESP32 board, the gun is capable of responding to signals transmitted by software typically used to drive commercial haptics hardware. It integrates directly into the virtual reality game and sends signals over the network telling the accessory is going on in real-time before the firmware translates it into feedback.
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