Meta Haptics Studio: Pushing the Boundaries of Haptic Design

We are thrilled to introduce the latest update of Meta Haptics Studio, a powerful tool that marks a significant milestone in our mission to empower developers and push the boundaries of haptic design. Haptics Studio is essential for developers as it provides the tools needed to create rich, tactile experiences that simulate the sense of touch and enhance the sense of presence and realism in virtual environments and digital applications. The latest release introduces features that accelerate the haptic design process and give you more ways to fully customize your designs.

Start by downloading the desktop app for Haptics Studio (Windows | Mac), or experience the new guided onboarding from the VR app⁠.

Experience a new, polished design that enhances the user experience with a new consistent and cohesive look across the Desktop and VR companion app. To help you get started quickly, we’ve introduced a new guided onboarding process in the VR App to help you spend less time on set up and more time creating.

The vector-style Pen tool allows you to create haptic effects from scratch, without relying on audio files.

This unlocks a broad scope of use cases, enabling the creation of haptic effects for things like UI interactions. In addition, the editor provides an infinite canvas, letting you draw freely, with the length of your clip being defined by the position of the last set breakpoint.

Batch analysis allows you to quickly adjust analysis parameters for multiple selected clips at once. This significantly reduces time spent on individual clip analysis, enabling faster turnaround times, quicker iteration and ultimately saving time while increasing productivity.

Stereo clip splitting enables you to easily split stereo clips into left and right channels, reducing the need for external editing tools and allowing you to add even more depth to the haptic experience.

You can now define the duration of a clip with the Trim tool, eliminating the need to switch back to audio editors to shorten your original clip.

The Emphasis tool facilitates fast and precise haptic design by enabling you to intuitively place emphasis points with a single click. This feature is ideal for creating complex haptic patterns.

Our newly designed Tool Bar streamlines your editing process with quick access to essential tools like Selection, Pen, Marker, Trim and Emphasis. This opens up more time to focus on creating and refining your haptic designs.

Experience a smooth transition between designing on desktop and auditioning haptics in VR with our updated connection options. In addition to a wireless connection, you can now connect your desktop and VR app directly using a USB cable, which is ideal for environments with limited network options.

Meta Haptics Studio offers cross-platform support, allowing you to export your work in .haptic, .ahap and .wav file formats. Expanded support ensures compatibility across different platforms and makes it easier than ever to reuse your haptic designs into different environments.

Download the latest version of Meta Haptics Studio for desktop (Windows | Mac) as well as the VR app⁠ on the Meta Horizon Store to try out all of the new features. To learn more about Meta Haptics Studio, visit the documentation, and don’t forget to also download the Meta Haptics SDK for Unity or Unreal Engine.

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