UnrealHaptics: A Plugin-System for High Fidelity Haptic Rendering in the Unreal Engine

We present UnrealHaptics, a novel set of plugins that enable both 3-DOF and 6-DOF haptic rendering in the Unreal Engine 4. The core is the combination of the integration of a state-of-the-art collision detection library with support for very fast and stable force and torque computations and a general haptics library for the communication with different haptic hardware devices. Our modular and lightweight architecture makes it easy for other researchers to adapt our plugins to their own requirements. As a use case we have tested our plugin in a new asymmetric collaborative multiplayer game for blind and sighted people. The results show that our plugin easily meets the requirements for haptic rendering even in complex scenes.