The special joint research project is an industry-academia collaboration system by the University of Tsukuba.Excellent research by hiring researchers from companies, etc., using funds from companies, etc. to form a research group together with researchers on campus, and jointly conducting research on common issues from both sides on an equal footing. It is said that it is a system that produces results and promotes social contribution.

　The Digital Nature Promotion Strategy Research Platform is based on technology that controls all kinds of waves such as sound and light, and is generated by hologram technology such as aerial sound sources / images rooted in market needs, digital fabrication, and various derivatives that apply it. Aim for technological research and social implementation. As we enter the IoT era, various tools are becoming the Internet, and gadgets are overflowing in our daily lives, we aim to establish various elemental technologies related to real-world control by computers and accelerate the arrival of computer nature (digital nature).

　Professor Hiroshi Itsumura of the University of Tsukuba Library Information Media and Yoichi Ochiai, CEO of Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc. are involved in the research.Through this project, Mr. Ochiai has been appointed to the University of Tsukuba as the director and associate professor of the "Digital Nature Promotion Strategy Research Infrastructure".