Empathy in the metaverse is a very important topic when we focus on social interaction and mental health.
There are typically 5 senses that allow us to receive empathy:
- Acoustic stimuli
- Visual stimuli
- Smell stimuli
- Taste stimuli
- Haptic stimuli
1 and 2 can be transferred to the metaverse without any problems.
👉 Now, California-based startup emerge.io is launching a tabletop device that envelops virtual objects and interactions with ultrasonic waves in the air.
Technologies like these will provide groundbreaking support for "haptic stimuli" and open up a broad field of new empathy-driven applications in the metaverse.