Peripheral Devices Having Dynamic Weight Distribution to Convey Sense of Weight in HMD Environments

A peripheral device for use in interfacing with a virtual reality scene generated for presentation on a head mounted display, comprising,

• a housing;
• a weight integrated into the housing;
• a controller for causing movement of the weight within the housing, the movement of the weight is configured to cause changes a weight distribution for the peripheral device, a change in the weight distribution is correlated to a movement of a virtual object in the virtual reality scene as presented on the head mounted display;
• and
• a move mechanism for enabling the weight to move based on instructions received from the controller, the move mechanism is configured apply a rate of movement of the weight based on processing by the controller, the rate of movement of the weight is at least partially controlled based on a weight adjusting profile that is associated with the virtual object in the virtual reality scene.