Interested in adding sex toy hardware to your mod? I've got open source code available!

[qdot]

Hi! I'm qDot. I run https://www.metafetish.com, a blog about sex toy hacking.

 

Someone showed up to my sex tech hacking slack instance and mentioned this place, this is totally awesome! I feel completely out of touch, having run mmorgy.com, a blog about sex in mmos and games, for years but not knowing about this. Granted, I shut that down in 2009, so I'm just behind the times.

 

Anyways, I'd love to offer my help with getting more hardware working with game mods. I host all of my sex toy reverse engineering repos at

 

http://github.com/metafetish

 

All the documentation and code there is either CC or BSD licensed, so feel free to check it out and go nuts. Right now a lot of it is Python/Javascript/Rust, but I'm happy to help adapt to C/C++/C#/D/Befunge/COBOL/whatever else might be needed. There's an index of hardware and repos at https://buttplug.io (check the hardware menu), but it's currently incomplete.

 

If someone could help point me at game mods that already have hardware support, I'd really appreciate it. I'd love to know what's out there so far.

 

Also, I'm working on software to let developers control many different types of toys using a generic communications protocol (so instead of having to send, say, specific messages to Lovense toys, you just send "vibrate at this speed" and it'll work with any of the vibrators the program supports. There's more information about that at

 

https://buttplug.io

 

Right now, the main problem for sex toy hardware support in games is going to be BLE support on Windows. It's just gotten much better for windows 10 as of the Creators Update, and I'm trying to slam together some demo C# code to show how to support vibrators as well as things like the Fleshlight Launch. There's some other, more roundabout solutions that I'm looking at to support windows 7/8 too.

 

If you've got any questions, feel free to poke me here, or on twitter at http://twitter.com/qdot. Looking forward to helping out!

[vinfamy]

Hmm, interesting. Bit on a weird side for me personally TBH but I can imagine a future of adult gaming with VR and these kinds of high-tech sex toys. The female audience might be even more receptive if marketed properly I think. 

There was an 'quick and dirty' attempt  to turn game controller into vibrator here : http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/1009-use-game-controller-as-vibrator/

 

PS: I came across your LinkedIn - that's an impressive CV. Out of interest, do your employers/ colleagues ever give you a hard time (no pun intended) for engaging in the 'dark side' of technology? I mean your real name is kinda not hidden at all. 

[qdot]

Thanks! Interesting controller mod. I've been contemplating doing an xinput junction driver that would basically let you siphon off haptics commands to other programs, so your gamepad would work as normal, but you could make other things vibrate if you wanted. I think that'd be the most straight forward way to get vibrators working at least. Could go the DInput hijack route but that's just so nasty.

 

As for my name being out there, yeah, there came a point where I was speaking about teledildonics/sex tech at large tech conferences, being on TV about it, etc, and it just became easier to use my real name. To be honest, it is a fuckton of work to keep my reputation on the thin line between "acceptably but entertainingly ribald" and "completely reprehensible". I manage, but not without the occasional mistake, and it's certainly not something I recommend everyone do. Main thing is that I don't really force the topic in conversation or anything. It's just kind of "what I do", and if other people bring it up, fine, if not, also fine. It /is/ on my resume, but as academic publications (published at SIGCHI on sex hardware UI research).