Afference introduced in the present day that it has raised $1.5 million in funding to develop its new neural interface (or “synthetic sensation”) platform, known as Phantom. Konvoy led the spherical, and Afference plans to make use of the cash to boost the Phantom platform, which provides a brand new type of haptic gadget for customers to “really feel” issues in digital actuality environments.

The Phantom is a handheld wearable, wrapping across the consumer’s fingers and wrist. Quite than strain, the Phantom makes use of electrical alerts to speak sensation on the pores and skin to the consumer’s mind. It may be linked through Bluetooth to any Spatial Computing platform, together with digital and blended actuality units.

Jacob Segil, Afference CEO, stated in an announcement, “Spatial Computing necessitates a paradigm shift in the best way we work together with digital content material. We’re constructing a synthetic sensory platform to permit
digital interactions to be as seamless as bodily interactions.”

Taylor Hurst, principal at Konvoy, added, “The true promise of Spatial Computing can solely be completed with compelling haptic suggestions. The place different haptics firm’s fail is in how they switch this sense to finish customers. Jacob Segil and Dustin Tyler, specialists in neural stimulation, have constructed the very best technique of delivering synthetic sensation for the Spatial Computing age.”

The corporate plans to launch improvement kits of the Phantom in early 2024.