❔What is a Sensation

Sensations are the physical stimuli that you feel when interacting with the virtual world. They are made up by a group of microsensations, which are the smallest units that can be felt.

A microsensation(micro) is composed of 6 parameters:

1. Frequency: Pulses per second (Hz).

   1. A micro with a frequency of 10 will send 10 pulses per second, which would feel like independent impacts, since there are noticeable time between pulses (1 tenth of a second).

   2. A micro with a higher frequency (like 100) will result in a “continuous” sensation, since there is no noticeable time between pulses (e.g. wind or bleeding).

2. Duration: Seconds that the micro lasts.

   1. For example, if you create a micro with a frequency of 1 and 1 sec of duration, you will feel 1 pulse after 1 second.

   2. On the other hand, if you create a micro with a frequency of 10 and 0.1 sec of duration, you will immediately feel 1 pulse.

You cannot send a frequency of 1 in less than 1 second. Since the pulse would be sent after 1 second.

3. Intensity: Percentage that indicates how strong the micro will be felt.

   1. A nice sensation such as the wind could have an intensity value of 2%.

   2. Whereas a shotgun recoil sensation could have an intensity value of 70%.

   3. Usually, our death sensations have an intensity value of 100% 😀

4. Ramp up: Seconds it takes for the micro to progressively go from 0 to the assigned intensity.

5. Ramp down: Seconds it takes for the micro to progressively go from the assigned intensity to 0.

6. Exit time: Seconds between one micro and the next one.

We encourage you to experiment with all this parameters using our Sensations Creator tool to feel the differences between the values of each parameter.

Baked Sensations

Baked sensation have an unique identifier and are defined before the connection, by using their ID you can send a baked sensation without needing to create it again. Also, baked sensations intensity can be adjusted by users in the MyOWO app.

If you send a baked sensation without adding it to your game auth, nothing would be felt.

A sensation that is not baked is known as a dynamic sensation, and can be sent from anywhere in the project without needing to be configured in the game auth.

Families

Baked sensation are grouped by a sensation family, this helps organize your sensations inside the calibration menu of MyOWO app.

Sensation Example

The sensation codes used below were created using our Sensation Creation tool

C#

//Dynamic Sensation
var sensation = Sensation.Parse("60,1,70,0,0,0,Hit|0%100")
//Baked Sensation
var bakedSensation = Sensation.Parse("0~Jump~100,4,50,0,400,0,Jump|2%100~environment-5~Parkour#")

C++

//Dynamic Sensation
auto sensation = SensationsParser::Parse("60,1,70,0,0,0,Hit|0%100")
//Baked Sensation
auto bakedSensation = SensationsParser::Parse("0~Jump~100,4,50,0,400,0,Jump|2%100~environment-5~Parkour#")