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Partnerships

Collaborate with us

The AlloSphere Research Group is open to collaboration and tours. We seek corporate, industry, academic, and institutional partnerships on short- and long-term projects.

Corporate & research partnerships

Affiliations and partnerships across science, engineering, and the arts, with facilities, infrastructure, and research & technical support during all phases of project development.

Showcase work in 3D

Present visually and sonically in the AlloSphere — 100° to 360° immersive projection with three rings of 3D spatial audio — or the AlloPortal’s reconfigurable 24-speaker system.

Visits, tours & open houses

On-site visits are welcome for potential partners. We also host bi-annual public open houses — watch the News page for the next date.

Arrange a visit

Motivation

The AlloSphere is a one-of-a-kind immersive instrument at the intersection of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. We aim to create research collaborations in which new science, currently obscured by data complexity, can be brought into sharp focus through human-scale control, understanding, and insight.

Rates & usage overview

We supply a flexible platform offering support for many production tools including readiness for video, audio, and gaming pipelines. Customized tools requiring development are discussed on a case-by-case basis.

  • Usage rates: Contact the AlloSphere Team for current facility rates.
  • IP policy: No exchange of IP.
  • Data protection: The AlloSphere cluster is on a private secured network behind a firewall. Sensitive data can be managed by its owner and removed when desired.
  • Tool support: Contact us to discuss pipeline and development needs.

Past & current collaborators

NVIDIA, Sanford Burnham Prebys, UNESCO (Last Whispers), the Getty Foundation, UC Irvine’s Beall Center, Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts & Technology, MOXI, the Mosher Foundation, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the Van der Ven Research Group, the Halpern Lab, and many university research labs at UCSB.

To start a partnership, contact Distinguished Professor Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin at jkm (at) create.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3010.