HapticPDF - Haptic feedback to connected devices as you read


Salutations everyone!
My name is Giratena, I normally do Japanese translations, but I’ve been lurking on here for a bit, and have something I’d like to contribute to the community.

This is HapticPDF - an open source piece of software I made which is a PDF/Image viewer that allows you to auto play scripts based on any region that you hover your mouse over, which offers for a ton of creativity. No matter what you’re looking at/reading, this can make comics/images/manga/books more immersive to read!

Originally, I had this idea where the script would play based on an eye tracker/what you’re looking at, which could make for a fun game/integration idea, so this is probably more like the proof of concept of that.

The software works by making use of EDI - open EDI with a gallery of scripts in it, and then just map a region to what script you want to play.

Please let me know what you think - feedback is much appreciated!

Requirements:

  • Edi (with scripts) running
  • Node.JS installed on machine

Downloads:

Github for those interested:

If you don’t have any generic edi scripts for this, here are some of mine that I experimented with:

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