Emerge brings physical touch to the metaverse
Emerge, a social virtual connection company focusing on building within the metaverse, today announced the launch of the Emerge Home system, which lets you use your hands in the metaverse. In anticipation of the launch of Emerge Home, Emerge also raised an additional $13 million from strategic investors to finalize product development and support its early adopter community.
It’s the company’s first product that enables immersive a bare-hands tactile experience, and cofounders Sly Lee and Isaac Castro demonstrated this on Wednesday at our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 online event.
A recent study from National Research Group, uncovering consumer views of the metaverse found that the majority are excited about the metaverse, but 78% of consumers say “when interacting with people virtually, I miss the ability to physically touch and interact with them.”
Online, we miss non-verbal cues, sensory experiences, and ways of feeling things together. As virtual worlds become the epicenter of shared social experiences, they still lack a key pillar of our human experience – the ability to use our bare hands to feel, interact, and physically connect with those who matter most to us, our “inner circles,” Emerge said.
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The Emerge Home system consists of three components: the Emerge Wave-1 device, the Emerge Home social virtual experience, and the Emerge Home mobile app. The Emerge Wave-1 is a new tabletop device that invites your bare hands to be your controllers.
Around the same footprint as a 13-inch laptop, it emits sculpted ultrasonic waves that allow users to feel and interact via touch in the virtual world. Through the use of Emerge’s patented
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