US Patent 11833428 Positional haptics via head-mounted peripheral

Methods and systems are provided. One method is for controlling a plurality of haptic sensors of a physical headset of a user interacting in a virtual reality space. The method includes identifying position and orientation of a character of the user in a scene of the virtual reality space and a three-dimensional (3D) location of an audio object in the scene. The character of the user being associated with the user. The method includes associating a virtual headset to a head of the character. The virtual headset moves as the position and orientation of the character moves in the scene, and the virtual headset includes a plurality of virtual haptic sensors. The method includes applying a magnitude to each of the plurality of haptic sensors of the physical headset based on a directional distance of each of the plurality of virtual haptic sensors of the virtual headset to the audio object in the scene.