STPI OctaNE Aizawl · Gaming & Entertainment CoE · 2025

The Phygital
Game Engine.

A USB-powered Smart Mat and an open SDK for Unity, Unreal and Godot. Mercurious turns physical movement into high-fidelity gameplay — without VR, without ₹80,000 rigs.

Join the Beta See it move

India has 400M+ gamers. Almost zero affordable active-gaming.

Motion gaming is locked behind ₹80k+ VR rigs and 4×4m room scale. Indie studios can't ship for it. Players can't afford it. The Indian living room sits idle.

400M+
Indian gamers
and growing 13% YoY
₹80,000
avg cost of motion gaming today
(VR + space + PC)
7+ hrs
average daily screen time, sedentary
fitness ≠ fun

/ The Phygital Stack

One Smart Mat. One open SDK. Infinite games.

Mercurious is a USB-powered, pressure-sensitive mat plus a free plugin for Unity, Unreal and Godot. Indie studios ship "step-to-play" titles in days, not years.

HARDWARE

The Smart Mat

  • Plug & play
    Single USB-C cable. No batteries, no pairing, no calibration.
  • 16-zone pressure grid
    Open-source PCB. ₹2,500 BOM target for sub-₹6,000 retail.
  • 1ms input latency
    Predictable enough for rhythm games and competitive fitness.

SOFTWARE

The Open SDK

  • Unity / Unreal / Godot
    One package, three engines. Drop in a prefab, get input events.
  • AI movement prediction
    On-device model turns 16 zones into 60+ pose intentions.
  • Open-source, MIT
    Free for indies forever. Studios get priority support tier.

/ Live Demo

Don't have the mat? Use your arrow keys.

Each keypress simulates a foot landing on the mat. Your inputs trigger real-time VFX on the chrome character — the same data path a real Mercurious mat sends to a game.

● LIVE · PACKETS: 0000

Use ↑ ↓ ← → or tap the pad. Each input = one packet from a real Mercurious mat.

MAT
↑ N↓ S→ E← W

/ Built for OctaNE Aizawl

Why STPI's Gaming & Entertainment CoE will love this.

Grant target: ₹25,00,000 · Cohort: OctaNE 2025

Criteria

Innovation

First open Phygital input standard for India. Moves gaming beyond the controller without VR's price wall.

Criteria

GPU Utilisation

STPI Aizawl GPU servers train and serve the pressure→pose AI model. The grant directly powers the inference loop.

Criteria

Scalability

Platform play, not a single title. Every game built on the SDK sells more mats. Every mat unlocks more games.

Criteria

Market Gap

400M Indian gamers, near-zero affordable active gaming. Doubles as a Wealth + Health creator.

/ Use of Funds

₹25 Lakhs. 12-month runway to public beta.

40%
Hardware refinement
₹10.0L
35%
2 engine engineers
₹8.75L
15%
Closed beta with 10 studios
₹3.75L
10%
GPU + AI training
₹2.5L

/ Roadmap

From prototype to platform in 18 months.

Q3 2026

v1 Mat Prototype

DVT hardware, 5 closed dev kits, internal showcase title.

Q4 2026

SDK Open Beta

Public Unity/Unreal/Godot plugin, 10 partner studios shipping.

2027

Public Launch

₹6,000 retail mat. 25+ titles in the launch catalogue. India-first, world next.

/ Closed Beta

10 dev kits. India-first.

We're shipping the first batch to indie studios and hardware partners. Reserve your slot — no payment, no lock-in.