Jeremy Bailenson

What we've shown in our studies is that this virtual touch is well received. You can actually pull emotion from it, people could very accurately, twice above what chance would predict, understand the other person's emotion through this virtual reality touch.

Jeremy Bailenson

We've never, ever been able to touch more than one or two people at once with our two hands. Now, all of a sudden, you can hug the world, there's amazing applications for that. If I'm the Jeremy Bailenson, I can hug the entire world at once.

Jeremy Bailenson