Media Interfaces
Center for Extended Reality and SoundSpace explore creative technology.
CEIS is leveraging University of Rochester investments in two important transdisciplinary research institutes that closely align with our core mission:
Center for Extended Reality (CXR)
CXR is dedicated to making extended reality—AR and VR combined with artificial intelligence—useful, productive, and valuable for humanity.
SoundSpace Institute
SoundSpace is focused on the intersection of sound, music, and media technology across entertainment and art.
CXR and SoundSpace both explore how we experience, communicate, and create meaning through technology. These enabling technologies and their human, societal, and application-focused dimensions engage multiple levels of the value chain as economic drivers and amplified workforce training initiatives.
Through these new-media initiatives, CEIS is positioned to help Rochester and New York state lead in both the technologies we are known for and the emerging creative-innovation domains that will define the next economy.
Manufacturing has long been a cornerstone of CEIS’s mission and the broader NYSTAR network and it will remain so. But we are also increasingly focused on the creative technology economy — industries where innovation meets the essentially human activity of imagination and expression.