Artificial-reality devices with display-mounted transducers for audio playback

A method comprising:

• at an artificial-reality device that includes:
• (i) a head-mounted display including at least one lens, and (ii) one or more transducers coupled to the head-mounted display:
• presenting, by the head-mounted display, media for a virtual scene;
• selecting at least one transducer, from the one or more transducers, based at least in part on audio data for the media, wherein the audio data is associated with a sound source in the virtual scene;
• determining values of characteristics for the signals generated by the at least one transducer based at least in part on the audio data, wherein the characteristics include one or more of (i) frequency, (ii) amplitude, and (iii) phase;
• and
• concurrently with the presenting, generating, via the at least one transducer of the one or more transducers, signals that vibrate the at least one lens of the head-mounted display, wherein the at least one lens generates acoustic waves that correspond to the media presented by the head-mounted display when vibrated by the at least one transducer.