01MOTION
Orientation
Device attitude in space
Alpha · Beta · Gamma
YOUR PHONE, IN THE PATCH
Feel the world
through OSC.
Turn your phone into a wireless sensor. Pick the signals you need and stream them straight into TouchDesigner.
SENSOR / 01OSC OUT ↗40° 42′ 46.4″ N
74° 00′ 21.3″ W
01 / CONFIGURE
Choose your signals.
!Motion, compass, and location need HTTPS on a phone. This local preview is HTTP, so Safari and Chrome block those sensors. Use
localhost on this computer for a desktop preview, or open the app from a trusted HTTPS address.02MOTION
Motion
Acceleration and rotation rate
Acceleration · Gyroscope
03POSITION
Location
Latitude, longitude and altitude
GPS · Accuracy · Speed
04POSITION
Compass
Heading relative to north
Heading · Accuracy
05DEVICE
Screen
Viewport and display orientation
Width · Height · Angle
06DEVICE
Battery
Charge level and power state
Level · Charging
07INPUT
Touch
Live pointer and touch position
X · Y · Pressure
08MEDIA
Camera
Video is not an OSC signal
Use NDI or WebRTC for videoNOT OSC
02 / CONNECT
Find your way in.
YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR NETWORK
A WEBSOCKET RECEIVER
↗WSS
In TouchDesigner, press Show Connection Info and enter the WSS address shown. Both devices must be on the same Wi-Fi.
THEN
B TOUCHDESIGNER OUTPUT
The receiver forwards each value as OSC. For TouchDesigner, set the OSC Out DAT destination to your OSC In DAT address and port.
OSC TARGET
127.0.0.1 : 7000SEND RATE
MOBILE / SESSION Keep Safari open in the foreground while streaming. Phones pause web pages after you switch apps; the screen wake lock helps prevent auto-lock but cannot keep a background page transmitting.
03 / IN TOUCHDESIGNER
Three steps to
a live patch.
The TouchDesigner patch can receive the phone stream and emit OSC itself, so there is no separate bridge process to launch.
Add the receiver once
In TouchDesigner, create a Web Server DAT and an OSC Out DAT. Load touchdesigner/webserver_callbacks.py into a Text DAT and assign it as the Web Server DAT callbacks.
Set the OSC route
Set the callback’s OSC Out DAT path, then use 127.0.0.1:7000 if your OSC In DAT is on this same computer. Activate the Web Server DAT on port 8788.
Connect and stream
In this hosted app, press Show Connection Info in TouchDesigner and enter its wss:// address. Keep the phone and TouchDesigner computer on the same Wi-Fi. Sensor values arrive as /phone/orientation/alpha, /phone/motion/accel/x and more.