The Shiftwave Arc, Designed by Jakob Wagner, Debuts as Part of the New Shiftwave Active Regulation™ Platform

Shiftwave has unveiled the Shiftwave Arc, a new chair designed by Copenhagen industrial designer Jakob Wagner. The Shiftwave Arc is part of the new Shiftwave Active Regulation™ platform, powered by BioDrive®: Shiftwave’s chairs and completely new Shiftwave software, working as one.

Wagner designed Bang & Olufsen’s headphones from 2011 to 2021, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The Shiftwave Arc fits into any environment, with the highest level of Danish design: a smoother session, with all the power.

“Arc is built to receive the human being,” said Wagner. “All the technology is still there. It simply steps back.”

Everyone’s talking about nervous system regulation. But regulation isn’t sedation: it’s being able to adapt to any moment, on demand. Modern life leaves many people stuck on one side: wired when they want to rest, flat when they need to go. When you’re stuck, it takes energy to get unstuck. Shiftwave’s chairs use pulsed pressure waves that engage both sides of the autonomic nervous system. Most people leave relaxed, yet ready. Calm, yet alert.

“We saw in the lab that gentle wasn’t enough to get people unstuck, so we kept adding power until we could reliably create a shift,” said Mike North, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Shiftwave. “The Shiftwave Arc gives that power a beautiful new form, and the software adds the intelligence to create a complete Active Regulation™ platform, so every session lets you choose the moment you want to meet, whether that’s performing in the office or on the field, or just getting a good night’s rest.”

How the Active Regulation™ platform works: choose, engage, guide, track

• Choose. Choose the moment you want to meet: the presentation, the game, the evening at home. Then tell the Shiftwave software where you are, where you want to be and how long you have, and it suggests protocols that fit.

• Engage. The chair’s pulsed pressure waves bring the power: strong enough to get you unstuck, they engage both sides of the autonomic nervous system to help it regulate.

• Guide. Each protocol combines voice, music and the chair’s waves, from a library of well over a hundred protocols made with top trainers, psychologists, sports mental performance coaches and sports research labs. In protocols with BioDrive® built into the experience, put a finger on the chair’s pulse sensor and the chair adapts to your pulse, live. Or let the software build a plan around your week.

• Track. Every session is scored across Engagement, Resilience, Renewal and Inner Form, and your trends build over time. Ask it about your sessions by typing or speaking, and connect your wearables.

People run every session from the new Shiftwave app for iPhone and iPad, with Android coming soon.

Two chairs, both part of the Active Regulation™ platform

The Active Regulation™ platform is either the Shiftwave Pro or the Shiftwave Arc with the new Shiftwave software, with the same power and the same intelligence in each. The Shiftwave Pro is portable, deployable and rugged, built for teams, performance staff, facilities and homes. The Shiftwave Arc is the designed form, made to fit into any environment.

Shiftwave has been used on the front lines in Ukraine since 2022. It is fielded across Air Force, Navy, and Army installations, and in use with military human performance, mental health, and Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) programs. Teams in all five major U.S. leagues use it too.

Availability

The Shiftwave Arc is available to order today at $20,000. Orders are fulfilled in the order they are received, with first deliveries in mid-February. The Shiftwave app is free to download today from the U.S. App Store. Learn more at https://shiftwave.co/products/shiftwave-arc