Emerge, a company building a multi-sensory communication platform, has signed a strategic multi-year engagement with The Walt Disney Company.

Emerge says the partnership is a major step forward in its mission to create a new paradigm for emotional connection in a world that is experiencing unprecedented 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, Emerge states that fans will be able to share multi-sensory experiences and interact with friends and family across the world, from the comfort of home.

“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,” comments Eric Bautista, director consumer products, games, and publishing at Disney.

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The AI communications company explains the rise of generative AI and its integration with various sensory inputs and outputs opens an opportunity in the race for technologies that help strengthen connections across distance. Emerge says it is building a multi-sensory communication platform through sight, touch, sound and brain activity that is powered by emotion AI. The company’s anchor product—Emerge Wave-1—was beta launched in 2022. Emerge points out that Emerge Wave 1 allows users to communicate with increased social presence, spend time together, and physically connect with hand-to-hand tactile contact through mid-air and ultrasonic force fields.

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Soon, the AI communications company adds that it will also enable users to digitize and transmit their emotions in real-time, an approach that aims to establish a new standard for personal connection.

“A few years from now, we’ll look back at our current digital interactions the same way we see our carbon emissions today. With 33% of the world population feeling disconnected from others, this loneliness epidemic is already one of the greatest life threats of our time. It’s time for a communication platform centered around what truly matters—our emotional connection with others. We are thrilled to partner with Disney to further our mission,” remarks Isaac Castro, Co-CEO at Emerge.

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