University of California

Facebook Technologies, LLC

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Yon Visell

Hrvoje Benko

Tristan Thomas Trutna

Sean Jason Keller

Raymond King

Yitian Shao

Bharat Dandu

Andrew Stanley

Massimiliano Di Luca

Do Thanh Nho

Yang Lou

A method creates haptic stimulations on a user of an artificial reality system. The system includes a head-mounted display (HMD) and a wearable device. The HMD includes a display and speakers. The wearable device includes a plurality of transducers that can each generate waves to provide haptic feedback to a user. The system displays media content on the display and, in accordance with the displayed media content, determines a virtual object location in the displayed media content corresponding to a physical object location. The system provides, to the user, audio directed to the virtual object location. The system activates one or more transducers to provide haptic feedback at a target location on the user, distinct from the physical object location, to produce haptic feedback whose perceptual interpretation is at the physical object location based on a combination of the displayed media, the provided audio, and the haptic feedback.

Methods, devices, and systems for modifying perceived haptic stimulations on a user

A stretchable, conductive tubule is capable of operating as an electrical interconnect and/or a sensor. The stretchable, conductive tubule has a first end and a second end, and includes a stretchable conductor housed within the stretchable tubule. A first electrode is electrically coupled to the stretchable conductor at the first end of the stretchable tubule, and a second electrode is electrically coupled to the stretchable conductor at the second end of the stretchable tubule.

Stretchable, conductive interconnect and/or sensor and method of making the same

A method of creating localized haptic stimulations on a user includes a wearable device including a plurality of transducers that can each generate one or more waves that propagate away from the wearable device through a medium. The method includes activating two or more transducers of the plurality of transducers, selecting values for characteristics of waves to be generated by the two or more transducers based at least in part on a known impedance of the medium. The method further includes generating, by the two or more transducers, waves that constructively interfere at a target location to create a haptic stimulation on a user of the wearable device, the waves having the selected values.

Methods, devices, and systems for creating localized haptic stimulations on a user

A method of creating haptic stimulations and anatomical information includes a wearable device including a plurality of transducers that can each generate one or more waves. The method includes activating one or more first transducers of the plurality of transducers based on an instruction received from a remote device. Waves generated by the activated one or more first transducers provide a haptic stimulation. The method further includes activating one or more second transducers of the plurality of transducers. Waves generated by the activated one or more second transducers provide anatomical information of a user of the wearable device when the waves are received by one or more transducers of the plurality of transducers.

Methods, devices, and systems for creating haptic stimulations and tracking motion of a user

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