Q: What is Diamond Visionics mission and vision?

A: Our values and our vision at Diamond Visionics are closely coupled. Our vision is to improve the human condition by using the gifts of our knowledge, experience and creativity. This has set the mission for us to become a market leader by providing innovative solutions not only for the training and simulation industry, but for wherever a human-in-the-loop needs to make a critical decision based on the visualization of massive amounts of changing data.

Q: What is Diamond Visionics profile?

A: Diamond Visionics was founded in 1996 out of the Link Legacy that stayed in Binghamton, N.Y. We have grown at a 20 percent average rate both in terms of revenue and people at a time when the training and simulation market has only grown at 5 percent. As a small business, we have taken advantage of the Small Business Innovative Research [SBIR] grant program that helps fund our technology development and forms the basis of our unique visualization technology. The first contract that Diamond Visionics ever won was to provide the medical industry with a PC-based laparoscopic surgical simulator. This early start in image generation technology grew with the help of the SBIR’s and, through our engineering inventiveness, has resulted in the development of GenesisRT, our PC-based COTS image generator.

Q: The IG market is hot but so is the diverse and highly capable competition. What are the principal reasons military and commercial customers selected GenesisRT?

A: GenesisRT’s success can be attributed to the following reasons: It is leveraging the tremendous graphics performance increase made possible by COTS PC-based advancements, it provides the value added cost advantage of not having to create databases off-line the traditional way, it renders an unprecedented amount of scene content, and the scene it delivers to our Navy P-3C Pilots is at an FAA Level-D Navy equivalent fidelity. Diamond Visionics also has an aggressive development program to offer a physics-based sensor capability, GenesisSN, by the end of Q1 2008.

But one of the main reason our military and commercial customers selected GenesisRT is our ability to “drag and drop” new source data into the rendered scene and in the next blink of the eye one can view the new imagery, or the new building, or the new terrain elevation, etc. We have eliminated the wait time: “Source to scene with nothing in between.”

Not only has GenesisRT the ability to create scenes on-the-fly directly from source data, it can also render legacy databases as well. We have won contracts by virtue of ingesting legacy databases shortly after receiving the database file format on the trade show floor. Diamond Visionics is also at the forefront of real-time dynamic terrain for use in applications such as battle damage assessment and analytical graphical information systems (GIS).

Due to our special implementation of data access and the latest in COTS graphics cards we can deliver one million polygons per channel with 100,000 simultaneous light points. We can create the cities of Baghdad, Washington, D.C., and Honolulu, as we did at I/ITSEC 2007 where each had a quarter of a million buildings and nearly a million trees. These buildings are procedurally generated from freely available GIS data where each and every building is in the correct location, the correct size and the correct height. This also is why we think our customers selected GenesisRT: Our ability to deliver scene content on a worldwide scale. Our GenesisRT product is delivered on either Windows or Linux based 32 Bit and 64 Bit platforms.

Q: How does your approach to the defense and non-defense markets differ?

A: Our experience shows that we must strike the right balance as we offer GenesisRT to both markets. They both want performance and both are concerned with the cost. We see the major difference as the quantities that each is willing to buy at any one time.

We offer our GenesisRT image generator not only directly to our prime partners and customers, but also we integrate our Genesis SDK runtime engine into our partners’ image generators.

Q: What were your challenges in consummating the Concurrent and Atlantis alliances and what attracted the companies to Diamond Visionics rather than a competitor?

A: Our challenge with Atlantis was to show our ability to respond quickly to their customer’s request to ingest a legacy database. We accomplished that task in an hour! With Concurrent Computer our challenge was to show our ability to port GenesisRT to the Linux platform. Not only did we win contracts from Concurrent and Atlantis, but also from CAE, Rockwell Collins, FRASCA, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and others.

Q: What do you see as your growth markets and why?

A: With a product like GenesisRT that delivers, we are convinced that our future markets such as command and control, situational awareness, disaster/mission planning, and GIS applications will see the same benefits as the training and simulation market has. It was stated at the GEO-INT conference in October