News

April 7, 2008

Diamond Visionics welcomes Aaron Hutchinson (formally of TERREX) as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Aaron brings nineteen plus years of experience in the Training and Simulation industry, including six years experience in the capacity of Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Aaron brings a strong background in growing market share for COTS simulation software companies. Aaron is excited about the potential of Diamond Visionics and Genesis, a real-time state of the art visualization application.

March 13, 2008

Diamond Visionics attended this year’s Terrain Summit in Huntsville, AL where Dr. James Pendrys presented a paper, entitled “Extraction of Light Sources from Night Imagery”. In addition our Genesis products were demonstrated. Attendees were truly impressed with the performance, realism and content of this “On-The-Fly” Image Generator.

June 12, 2007

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has selected Diamond Visionics for a 2007 DoD Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) phase I award.  The subject of the research contract is "Automated Texture Synthesis from Multi-spectral Satellite Imagery".  Work is expected to begin by July 1.

June 7, 2007

Timothy Woodard has been promoted to the position of Director of Engineering at Diamond Visionics. With over 10 years of experience as Lead Software Developer and creator of GenesisRT, Diamond Visionics’ premier World Wide Data Base Image Generation System, Tim has revolutionized the visual simulation market. In addition, he has published and presented many industry technical papers in this field of image generation with innovative features like Rapid Database Generation, Dynamic Terrain, and Virtual Laparoscopic Surgery. Tim and his wife Kassie have been married for 10 years and have two children Ian and Gavin.

February 2007

Atlantis Systems International (ASI) has awarded Diamond Visionics a contract for the provision of the visual system for the Danish Multi-Role Helicopter (DMRH) Cockpit Procedures Trainer (CPT).  The trainer will be used in support of conversion and steady state training.  The Visual system will provide a three-channel out-the-window visual scene with a field of view of 120o horizontally and 30o vertically.  Thee visual system will also include a separate video channel to provide a correlated, generic Electro Optical Sensors / FLIR image.  Diamond Visionics will provide the GenesisRT worldwide visualization system as the IG at the heart of the visual system.  This will allow the students to fly anywhere in the world and see representative terrain texture, equivalent to 1m resolution, for every location.  For specified areas, satellite imagery will be used, providing a geo-specific view of the area.

Upcoming Events

Diamond Visionics will participate in the following upcoming conferences and events in 2008 - check back soon for more listings:

ITEC 08 - June 10-12, Stockholm, Sweden

'08 Navy Opportunity Forum - June 2-4, Crystal City, VA

Archived News

Strategic partnership of Engenuity Technologies and Diamond Visionics ushers in
the next generation of training and simulation
Engenuity Technologies Inc. of Montreal, a global leader in visualization and simulation software solutions, and New York-based Diamond Visionics will work together to enhance the functionality of Engenuity’s STAGE simulation toolkit by integrating Diamond Visionics’ GenesisRT (Worldwide Database) product. This new partnership will bring a more powerful toolset to Engenuity’s next-generation simulation offering, and drive growth in new vertical markets such as urban simulation, homeland security and serious games.
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Diamond Visionics demonstrated its new GenesisMP product at FBI-sponsored InfraGard workshop
Diamond Visionics demonstrated its exciting new GenesisMP Mission Preview product March 29 at the New York Metro chapter of InfraGard's GIS Workshop at the Queens Museum in Queens, N.Y. InfraGard is an FBI program dedicated to promoting ongoing dialogue and timely communication between the private sector and the FBI concerning critical infrastructure protection issues.



GenesisRT product used in helicopter vocational training
Atlantis Systems International of Toronto, Canada is using GenesisRT in its Helicopter Vocational Trainer (HVT), which provides flight operations training for helicopter pilots.



GenesisRT delivered to University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies
Diamond Visionics has completed the final delivery of GenesisRT to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) Flight Simulation Laboratory in Toronto, Canada.



Diamond Visionics Partners With Concurrent to Deliver Aerospace Simulation Software to Top Ten Defense Supplier
Diamond Visionics has partnered with Concurrent Computer Corp., a leading worldwide provider of integrated computer solutions for mission-critical applications headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, to provide the highest levels of computer-generated image quality and fidelity to a top ten supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense.



Diamond Visionics Awarded US Army SBIR to Develop Medical Simulation System for First Responder Training
Diamond Visionics has been awarded a Phase I SBIR contract titled "Medical Simulation Training for First Response to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Events (CBRNE)." Diamond Visionics will develop a simulation training system to improve America's ability to provide first response capabilities to CBRNE events. Diamond Visionics will team with RTI International, an independent, non-profit corporation with a distinguished history in scientific research and technology development.