US Patent 9510164 Haptic effects broadcasting during a group event

A system that generates haptic effects during a group event having a plurality of users in attendance receives an identity of a first type of haptic effect to be broadcast during the group event, where the group event includes a plurality of haptic events. The system broadcasts the first type of haptic effect to a first set of the users, where the broadcasting causes the first type of haptic effect to be generated on a device corresponding to each of the first set of users. The first type of haptic effect is synchronized with one of the haptic events.