Patent ID: 8502651

Claim:
A system configured to provide haptic effects to a first user of a multi-user application, the system comprising: a first computing platform associated with the first user, the first computing platform comprising: a first user interface configured to receive control inputs from the first user; a first haptic interface configured to generate haptic effects perceptible to the first user; a first display; and a first set of one or more processors configured: to execute a first instance of the multi-user application, the multi-user application including a game that takes place in a virtual space that includes a first play area that is different from a second play area, the game further including interaction with a virtual object that travels through the virtual space between the first play area and the second play area, wherein interaction with the virtual object by the first user and a second user is accomplished based on control inputs received from the first user and based on control inputs received from the second user via a second computing platform executing a second instance of the multi-user application, and wherein the multi-user application is configured to cause a view of the first play area to be presented to the first user on the first display; and to determine haptic effects that are to be generated by the first haptic interface, such haptic effects comprising a first haptic effect conveying information to the first user related to an interaction with the virtual object caused by a first control input of the second user to the second computing platform while the virtual object is in the second play area and outside of the first play area in the virtual space such that the virtual object is not present in the view of the virtual space presented to the first user on the first display.