MPEG-V based web haptic authoring tool

Nowadays the World Wide Web increasingly provides rich multimedia contents to its users. With the support of HTML5 techniques and haptic plug-ins for browsers, haptic enabled content can be realized over the Web. However, it is not easy for Web designers that are not proficient in programming or scripting languages (such as javascript), and who do not possess basic knowledge regarding haptics, to add and modify haptic content. Also, it is currently not possible to describe and reuse a well-described haptic- enabled Web application with 3D graphics in a browser. In this paper, we present an MPEG-V based authoring tool for haptics- enabled Web applications and games implemented in HTML5. This tool provides an interface for users to create and export haptic-enabled 3D scenes in a standard MPEG-V format which can be reconstructed in a Web haptic player. The proposed system is comprised of two components: the authoring tool interface, and an MPEG-V based Web haptic player.