System and method for coordinating gaming haptic response across peripheral device ecosystem
A haptic peripheral device ecosystem coordination system may comprise a display device displaying a three-dimensional (3D) gaming environment, the processor identifying a gaming action event occurring in the 3D gaming environment, based on a detected action event indicator, and determining a position of the gaming action event relative to a player avatar image within the 3D gaming environment, the processor transmitting a haptic command to a controller for a triggered haptic peripheral device, the haptic command selected based on an identification of the gaming action event, the triggered haptic peripheral device selected from a plurality of peripheral devices based on the position of the gaming action event, the controller for the triggered haptic peripheral causing haptic feedback at the triggered haptic peripheral device at a position relative to the user that is correlated to the position of the gaming action event with respect to the player avatar image.
1. A haptic peripheral input/output device ecosystem coordination system for an information handling system, comprising:
a display device displaying a three-dimensional (3D) gaming environment;
a processor identifying a gaming action event occurring in the 3D gaming environment, and determining a position of the action event relative to a player avatar image within the 3D gaming environment for an action event indicator;
the processor transmitting a haptic command to a controller for a triggered haptic peripheral input/output device, the haptic command selected from a plurality of haptic commands based on the action event indicator;
the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device selected from a plurality of peripheral input/output devices within a haptic peripheral input/output device ecosystem based on the position of the action event relative to the player avatar image within the 3D gaming environment relative to a known position of a haptic zone on the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device within the haptic peripheral input/output device ecosystem; and
the controller for the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device executing the received haptic command to cause haptic feedback within a haptic region of the triggered haptic peripheral device at a position relative to the user that is correlated to the position of the action event with respect to the player avatar image.
2. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device is a keyboard palm rest.
3. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device is a mouse.
4. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device is an audio headset device.
5. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the haptic feedback is haptic movement caused by the controller applying voltage across a piezoelectric actuator within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device, pursuant to execution of the haptic command.
6. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the haptic feedback is haptic thermal change caused by the controller applying voltage to a thermoelectric generator (TEG) within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device, pursuant to execution of the haptic command.
7. The information handling system of claim 1 further comprising:
the processor identifying the gaming action event, based on a combination of a detected visual action event indicator and a detected audio action event indicator.
8. A method of coordinating haptic feedback across a peripheral input/output device ecosystem, comprising:
displaying a three-dimensional (3D) gaming environment, via a display device;
identifying a gaming action event occurring in the 3D gaming environment, via a processor, to generate a detected action event indicator;
determining a position and type of the gaming action event within the 3D gaming environment;
transmitting a haptic command, selected from a plurality of haptic commands, based on an identification of the gaming action event, to a controller for a triggered haptic peripheral input/output device selected from a plurality of peripheral input/output devices within a haptic peripheral input/output device ecosystem, based on the position and type of the gaming action event within the 3D gaming environment relative to a known position of a haptic zone of the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device within the haptic peripheral input/output device ecosystem; and
executing the received haptic command, via the controller for the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device, to cause haptic feedback within the haptic zone of the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device that is correlated to the type of the gaming action event.
9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
executing the received haptic command to cause a haptic thermal decrease in temperature within the haptic zone by applying voltage to a thermoelectric generator within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device.
10. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
executing the received haptic command to cause a haptic thermal increase in temperature within the haptic zone by applying voltage to a thermoelectric generator within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device.
11. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
identifying the gaming action event, via the processor, based on action event indicators received from the gaming application code to generate the haptic command.
12. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
identifying the gaming action event, via the processor, based on a combination of a detected visual action event indicator and the position of the gaming action event relative to the player avatar image within the 3D gaming environment.
13. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
executing code instructions of a trained image recognition model, via the processor, to identify the gaming action event and a movement of the gaming action event within the 3D gaming environment within a captured image of live gameplay as displayed via the display device; and
generating a moving haptic response across a plurality of haptic zones of the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device, corresponding to the movement of the gaming action event.
14. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
executing code instructions of a trained image recognition model, via the processor, to identify the gaming action event and a movement of the gaming action event within the 3D gaming environment within a captured image of live gameplay as displayed via the display device; and
generating a moving haptic response across the plurality of peripheral input/output devices within the haptic peripheral device ecosystem, corresponding to the movement of the gaming action event.
15. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
receiving from firmware for the display device a measured magnitude and speed of change in pixel brightness for an identified region of pixels of the display device;
identifying, via the processor, the gaming action event and a movement of the gaming action event within the 3D gaming environment based on the measured magnitude and speed of change in pixel brightness and the identified region of pixels; and
generating a moving haptic response across a plurality of haptic regions of the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device, corresponding to the movement of the gaming action event.
16. A haptic peripheral device ecosystem coordination system for an information handling system, comprising:
a display device displaying a three-dimensional (3D) gaming environment;
a processor identifying a gaming action event occurring in the 3D gaming environment, and determining a position and type of the gaming action event within the 3D gaming environment to generate a detected action event indicator;
the processor transmitting a haptic thermal command and a haptic movement command to one or more controllers for a triggered haptic peripheral input/output device;
the triggered haptic peripheral device selected from a plurality of peripheral input/output devices within a haptic peripheral input/output device ecosystem based on the position and type of the gaming action event within the 3D gaming environment relative to a known position of a haptic zone of the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device within the haptic peripheral input/output device ecosystem;
the one or more controllers for the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device executing the received haptic movement command to cause haptic movement within the haptic zone of the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device and executing the haptic thermal command to cause haptic thermal change within the haptic zone; and
the haptic zone at a position relative to the user that is correlated to the position and type of the gaming action event.
17. The information handling system of claim 16 , wherein the one or more controllers apply pulses of voltage across a piezoelectric actuator within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device to cause the haptic movement, pursuant to execution of the haptic movement command.
18. The information handling system of claim 16 , wherein the haptic movement command identifies a magnitude of voltage applied by the one or more controllers across a piezoelectric actuator within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device to cause the haptic movement at one of a plurality of preset intensity levels.
19. The information handling system of claim 16 , wherein the haptic movement command identifies a time duration for application of voltage by the one or more controllers across a piezoelectric actuator within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device to cause the haptic movement for one of a plurality of preset time durations.
20. The information handling system of claim 16 , wherein the haptic thermal command identifies a time duration for application of voltage by the one or more controllers to the TEG within the triggered haptic peripheral input/output device to cause the haptic thermal change for one of a plurality of preset time durations.