» Press Releases for 2007
Paris, France 12/05/2007
WavGen Incorporated, partnered with Trimaran and IGn (Institut Geographique nationale) has been contracted by the ASO to deliver the 3D maps and Terrains of individual stages and ettappes of the Tour de France for the 10th Season in a row. Only this time we are delivering the Tour de France world picture in HD resolution (1920x1080). This type of production schedule is tight and within 3 months, all stages and maps need to be delivered in 9x the resolution as PAL/NTSC/SECAM. This type of very high end geographic coverage can only be mastered using wavelet compression and our rendering technology.
Orlando, Florida 11/18/2007
AutoDesk has again invited WavGen Incorporated to partner onsite and in-booth at the ITSEC conference. The ITSEC is the nations largest defense related trade and conference show highlighting emerging technologies centered around Homeland Security and NextGen technology development. We are showing our AutoDesk 3D integration pipelines including our AutoCAD to REVIT to 3D Studio Max plugins which are to be released as consumer licensing in the Spring of 2008. We are also highlighting our realtime and gaming pipelines from Maya and 3D Studio Max to game engine design (realtime shaders and large scale textures).
Montreal, Canada 10/05/2007
Creative minds unite at the Adapt Conference in Montreal and AutoDesk has partnered with WavGen Incorporated on site and in booth. WavGen has also delivered stunning Mount Everest demo materials which Marcel De Jong and Lee Frazier (Autodesk application engineers) will be presenting. Don't miss this opportunity to discuss our technology with those 3D Studio Max and Maya folks.
Perth, Australia 09/12/2007
Earth Resource Mapping and WavGen/Terratracer Incorporated are pleased to announce a 15th year anniversary for being solution providers to a variety of verticals in need of many types of earthly sensed geodata. As resellers to Earth Resource Mapping, WavGen continues to lead the field in 3D Terrain Animations and will release a FREE WavGen Software package to anyone who has bought the WavGen Software and has registered at our Customer Testimonial section on our web site.
New York, New York 08/14/2007
WavGen Incorporated is pleased to announce that car designers are working to supply GSD&M (Texas) with unique and scalable high resolution digital automotive assets of BMW cars. In wiring a CG visual effects pipeline with NextGen highly renderable assets for television commercials, the designers and modelers have chosen WavGen Software for their needs as they contract to this Ad Agency.
Studio City, California 07/03/2007
WavGen Incorporated is pleased to announce a partnership with www.GetReel.net together with www.SupaCam.com. Inline with internal R&D at WavGen, we have copywritten and started the patenting process on a unique form of spatial video compression technology taking into consideration that wavelet compression is extremely efficient at saving off redundant horizontally rowed and vertically aligned raster data. Our commitment to excellence and our CDEC R&D contract in the field of video compression will surely make a unique splash at the upcoming NAB 2008 show in Las Vegas.
Perth, Australia 06/17/2007
Earth Resource Mapping's pricing strategy moves back to the office, coprorate, and enterprise compress solutions allowing customers to compress ECW/JPEG2000 files for free at under 50MB, and at a tiered pricing schema through to the unlimited compression at $3495,-. Wavgen Incorporated will keep inline with its pricing at office, corporate, and enterprise solutions for all advanced 3D software packages.
Lausanne, Switzerland 05/21/2007
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that it has acquired all assets of Earth Resource Mapping Ltd (ER Mapper), a geospatial software company headquartered in Australia. ER Mapper is a world-class provider of geospatial imagery processing solutions that prepare, manage, compress and deploy imagery, thus complementing Leica Geosystems' existing product portfolio.
Honolulu, hawaii 05/02/2007
WavGen Incorporated is pleased to announce a complete rendering solution was provided to the Institute for Volcanology in Mauna Loa, Hawaii and Honolulu Hawaii. Much of the animations from the United States Geological Society has been presented on the Discovery and national Geographic channels on prime time television. We are very excited about delivering software to other USGS facilities across the US and Canadian territories as our pipelines are seamless and allow clients to import data directly into Maya, 3D Studio Max, Softimage and Lightwave.
Washington, District of Columbia 04/25/2007
National Aeronotics and Space Administration's (NOAA) weather visualization unit are applying our high-end software SDKs and our WavGen software to prepare unique weather visualizations and rendering them much faster than before, and at higher qualities than before. Being able to render complete satellite data mosaics over complete 16-bit height field datasets has made weeks of modelling and preparation obsolete.
Miami, Florida 03/09/2007
Forensic Experts working for the government and military are using the WavGen software to visualize accidents and disasters for court room study. Three subsidiaries to Forensic Experts are applying our software in a variety of case studies as WavGen/Terratracer helps to organize geodata (height field DEM data, Lidar Data, aerial photo data, satellite data, and vector data).
Geomar, kiel Germany 02/19/2007
WavGen Incorporated help the reknown oceanographic institute IFM Geomar in Kiel, Germany to visualize terrains and bathymetry in 4Kx4K space projected on an hemiomorphic surround screen planetarium. We are pround to have delivered the seventh planetarium a visualization 3D pipeline and are planning an immersive environment with several of these science visualization centers. One immersive environment exists at "The Farm" in Langley using our 4K/8K/16K technology.
Washington, District of Columbia 02/15/2007
WavGen/Terratracer sealed a bid for an SBIR (Federal Government Grant) to secure runtime high resolution textures in a terrain application based on the SGi Performer Open/GL Software API/SDK. Now seamless zoom-ins on multi-screen HD 1080p monitors can be achieved using 16-bit elevation datasets (raster) and the wavelet compressed RGB/CMYK color files in 8-bit. Potential applications and CDEC contracts can now be scheduled in a variety of our verticals.
Paris, France 01/05/2007
WavGen Incorporated seals it's 10th year anniversary for delivering content and directly delivering software to Trimaran for the world picture of the Tour de France animations supporting over 72 international television stations with complete 2D and 3D geographic prime time coverage of the Tour de France 2007.
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