Multipath acoustic holography and virtual haptics

A system for transmitting acoustic waves in a region aided by reflection from environmental objects comprising:

• a transmission control module configured to:
• detect an arrangement of acoustically reflective surfaces in an environment of a target to generate an environmental acoustic propagation channel model;
• identify, using the environmental acoustic propagation channel model, an acoustic radiation pattern for reflecting one or more acoustic waves off of one or more acoustically reflective surfaces of the arrangement of acoustically reflective surfaces in the environment towards the target;
• and
• one or more transducers of a coherent acoustic beamforming device configured to perform coherent beamforming based on the acoustic radiation pattern to generate the one or more acoustic waves for reflection towards the target off of the one or more acoustically reflective surfaces.