VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEMS WITH SYNCHRONOUS HAPTIC USER FEEDBACK

Methods and systems for providing synchronous haptic feedback to one or more users during a virtual reality experience include a virtual reality device, a gaming computer that generates the virtual reality gameplay to be displayed to a user via the virtual reality device, and a haptic computing device that receives, from the gaming computing device, virtual reality application data indicative of the virtual reality gameplay displayed to the user. The haptic computing device converts the virtual reality application data received from the gaming computing device into haptic output data and sends a control signal including the haptic output data to a controller that in turn transmit an activation signal to one or more haptic devices positioned proximate to user. In response to receipt of the activation signal from the controller, one or more haptic device generates a haptic effect palpable by the user and synchronized with the virtual reality gameplay.