Emerge partners with Disney to bring multi-sensory communication to homes
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Emerge has partnered with Disney to bring its multi-sensory communication platform — mainly the feeling of touch feedback — to the home.
The companies have signed a strategic multi-year engagement in an effort to make sensory experiences more tangible. This partnership is a major step forward in Emerge‘s mission to create a new paradigm for emotional connection across distance and time, in a world that is experiencing new levels of disconnection.
Emerge’s partnership with Disney will integrate beloved content into Emerge’s personal connection platform. Starting with one of Disney’s top franchises, fans will be able to share multi-sensory experiences and interact with friends and family across the world, from the comfort of home. This would enable users to physically feel a “virtual high five” or their favorite superpowers, with no gloves or controllers needed.
“For many fans of The Walt Disney Company, the fondest memories lie in the shared moments forged through the stories we’ve told over the past 100 years. Through our partnership with Emerge, we’re thrilled to leverage their technology platform to add a deeper level of ‘feeling’ to these stories and iconic moments that have only been left to the imagination—to experience directly in their homes,” said Eric Bautista, director of consumer products, games, and publishing at Disney, in a statement.
The rise of generative AI and its integration with various sensory inputs and outputs opens a unique opportunity in the race for technologies that help strengthen connections across distance. Emerge is building a multi-sensory communication platform—through sight,
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