UCSB's Office of Development - AlloSphere

Corporate - Affiliations & Partnerships

The AlloSphere seeks corporate - industry and academic - institutional partnerships on short- and long-term collaborative projects. An affiliation & partnership provides facilities, Infrastructure, research & technical support during all phases of project development. The AlloSphere & AlloPortal Research Facilities are available to showcase works visually and sonically in 3D, with visual projection between 100-degree immersive cylindrical to 360-degree spherical environments. The AlloSphere encompasses immersive spatial audio with three rings of 3D sound projection. The AlloPortal’s 24-speaker system is totally reconfigurable for different sound spatialization environments.

An AlloSphere Research Presentation

A Research Presentation - 2025 by Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Distinguished Professor & Director AlloSphere Research Group

Motivations

The AlloSphere is a one-of-a-kind immersive instrument at the intersection of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics, facilitating exciting new areas for discovery. This instrument is made to engage advanced researchers of our new age of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing planned inside the California NanoSystems Institute at UCSB– our own Silicon Beach. Our facility lives at the edge of the many research areas initiated by industry and governmental investment. We strive to facilitate exciting new areas of scientific discovery by redefining basic research and artistic innovation. Our research challenge is to bring human-scale control, understanding, and insight to areas where researchers’ intuitions have been hampered by data size, complexity, and heterogeneity, at both temporal and spatial scale.

At the AlloSphere we aim to create research collaborations and environments in which new science, currently obscured by data complexity, can be brought into sharp focus. In sharpening that focus we come to a new understanding of the importance of ethical values in the research, creative practice, and mentoring that we undertake. The need for an equitable, empathetic, and knowledgeable community to collaborate on the most crucial issues of our day, compassion and understanding, as well as ecological and economic change that empowers everyone to have a free and creative future.

AlloSphere as a Return on Investment

We welcome new potential research partnerships and collaborations of all kinds. Please contact me should you have a research question or a potential project that we might collectively investigate.

Working together, I believe, we can make a real difference inspiring & making positive change. The tangible community benefits of this research and project development have carried through our partners and visitors that have come to experience the AlloSphere facilities and research teams.

Corporate Sponsorship

• If you have questions on starting a partnership, please contact Distinguished Professor, Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (Ph.D., M.M., B.M.) directly at (805) 893-3010 as well as jkm@create.ucsb.edu.

Rates & Usage

We supply a flexible platform offering support for many production tools including readiness for video, audio, and gaming pipelines. All other customized tools requiring development will be discussed on a case by case basis depending on need.

1) Usage Rates

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2) IP Policy

• No exchange of IP

3) Data Protection & Security Protocols

• The AlloSphere cluster is on a private secured network behind a firewall. Data necessary for full-surround display is distributed locally across the render cluster. Sensitive data can be managed by its owner and removed from the system when desired.

4) Tool Support

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