Emerge has announced a strategic multi-year engagement with Disney aimed at making sensory experiences more tangible, particularly touching feeling feedback. Emerge’s goal is to create a new paradigm for emotional connection across distance and time. Through integrating beloved content of a top Disney franchise into Emerge’s personal connection platform, fans worldwide can interact and share multi-sensory experiences together, using no gloves or controllers to physically feel a virtual high five or their favorite superpowers. This partnership is a major step forward in Emerge’s mission to address isolation and disconnection by creating opportunities for more meaningful emotional connections.
Emerge is an emerging communication company that offers a multi-sensory platform that can help people connect emotionally, even across long distances. The company’s flagship product, Emerge Wave-1, is a small device that emits sculpted ultrasonic waves, allowing users to feel and interact via touch in the virtual world. Emerge’s patented technology creates a mid-air field of interaction up to three feet above the device and 120 degrees around it. Emerge also aims to enable users to digitize and transmit their emotions in real-time, establishing a new standard for personal connection.
Eric Bautista is the director of consumer products, games, and publishing at Disney. He expressed excitement about the partnership, stating that the partnership with Emerge would allow Disney to add a deeper level of feeling to its stories and iconic moments, which had only been left to the imagination. The partnership aligns Emerge with a brand whose timeless storytelling has captivated audiences for more than a century, with joint efforts poised to transcend the limitations of current communication technology.
