Patent ID: 11934579
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A head-mounted display (HMD) system comprising:
a strap, the strap having a circumference;
a display mounted to the strap at a first segment of the circumference, the first segment corresponding to a location of a face of a head of a user;
a plurality of haptic devices coupled to the strap at a second segment of the circumference, the second segment corresponding to a non-face area of the head of the user;
a view engine to determine a view boundary of a virtual environment based on orientation data of the display; and
a notification engine to cause activation of a first haptic device of the plurality of haptic devices in response to a virtual event that exceeds the view boundary,
wherein the first haptic device is operable in an information mode and an immersive mode, and the activation of the first haptic device in response to the virtual event occurring outside the view boundary causes the first haptic device to vibrate with a property reserved for the information mode, wherein the different properties are reserved for the immersive mode.