Comment on New web app can make Valve's Steam Controller drift across your desk like an RC car — web app drives the gamepad using its rumble motors

kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The steam controller has 4 different “HD” vibration motors, I’m assuming a phone has a single motor. So while it is possible to move a device this way, it wouldn’t work as well or be very controllable on a phone.

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  • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Both iPhones and Pixel phones have shipped with LRAs (Linear Resonant Actuator) instead of rotating mass for quite a while now. An iPhone’s taptic engine is basically the same technology. I’m not sure how many phones have multiple, but I think it’s common on gaming phones. That being said, I don’t remember the phone in Pantheon having to steer.

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• rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow I was about to comment this

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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