Disney Research Inspired by Pixar’s world-class research in computer graphics, Disney Research was launched in 2008 as a network of research labs that collaborate closely with academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH) to research novel technologies and deploy them on a global scale. Reporting to Walt Disney Imagineering and headquartered in Pittsburgh, they are able to combine the best of academia and industry to engage with the global research community, working on a broad range of commercially important challenges