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HPGE: An Haptic Plugin for Game Engines

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In this paper we present HPGE, an Haptic Plugin for Game Engines. Based on CHAI3D, it aims at providing an easy way to integrate haptics in game engines. HPGE provides C and C# bindings to be usable with almost any game engine or software. In addition, HPGE provides Unity3D C# scripts to facilitate the integration with Unity3D. Thanks to this plugin, it is possible to take advantage of the CHAI3D force-rendering algorithms and Unity3D Graphical User Interfaces to develop serious games. The paper goes through the requirements of such plugin, the issues that need to be addressed, to conclude with a description of the implementation and usage of the plugin.

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This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 732391 (weDRAW Project).

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  1. Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Science Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Genova, Italy

    Nicolò Balzarotti & Gabriel Baud-Bovy

  2. DIBRIS, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy

    Nicolò Balzarotti

  3. Faculty of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University & Unit of Experimental Psychology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

    Gabriel Baud-Bovy

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    Mario Allegra

  3. Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany

    Heinrich Söbke

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Balzarotti, N., Baud-Bovy, G. (2019). HPGE: An Haptic Plugin for Game Engines. In: Gentile, M., Allegra, M., Söbke, H. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11385. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11548-7_31

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