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  • Chaos Group Announces Acquisition of U.S. Based Software Developer, ASGVIS

    Chaos Group furthers plans for enhanced services and support to North American market

    Chaos Group of Sofia, Bulgaria – world leader in the development of software solutions for the computer graphics industry – has acquired Baltimore-based software developer and visualization firm, ASGVIS, LLC. The acquisition will consolidate V-Ray for Rhino and V-Ray for SketchUp development within the Chaos Group brand, and confirms establishment of a new Chaos Group company in the United States that will enhance services and support to customers in North America.

    A working relationship with the two companies began in 2005 when ASGVIS adapted Chaos Group’s flagship rendering plug-in, V-Ray, to work with the modeling software applications Rhinoceros and SketchUp. In addition to developing these two products, ASGVIS resold Chaos Group’s V-Ray for Autodesk 3ds Max and V-Ray for Maya. Joining the two development teams under Chaos Group will ensure consistency among the V-Ray products.

    “We are extremely excited by this merger,” said Peter Mitev, CEO of the Chaos Group. “We have worked with ASGVIS to extend the V-Ray platform into areas of business that our other V-Ray products did not cover, and having them join the Chaos Group only serves to make the V-Ray brand even stronger. The USA has always been a key market for V-Ray, and having a dedicated office to service our customers will allow us to provide an even higher level of service and support.”

    ASGVIS will officially be renamed Chaos Group USA. Peter Mitev will provide overall guidance for the new company, but there are no planned changes to the structure or employees as of this announcement. Chaos Group will continue to operate ASGVIS “as is,” and will gradually phase-in changes to the process of ordering and support. Details on these general changes will be communicated by the Chaos Group in the coming months.

    “Chaos Group is a true pioneer in the CG industry, and this acquisition is a monumental step to unify the V-Ray brand,” echoed Corey Rubadue, founder of ASGVIS, and now the Director of Chaos Group USA. “It not only acknowledges the importance of V-Ray in the CAD market, but also firmly places the plug-ins for Rhino and SketchUp in the official V-Ray development pipeline.”
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    www.chaosgroup.com

  • #2
    Congratulations!
    zwischendrin.com - HDRI panoramas, HD textures, stock images, SFX and more

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    • #3
      i should have bought stocks in chaos when it first formed hehehe

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      • #4
        Maybe this will straighten out the lame customer service at ASGVIS

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        • #5
          Will there come a time that VRAY plugin will be one plugin, and during install you choose which host application you use, and then you can use 1 license to install on whichever host application?
          Kind Regards,
          Morne

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          • #6
            +1
            that would be awesome, just like maxwell.
            Or at least make a more sensible pricing. For eg : if you buy a version of vray for 3ds Max then you can have any other version at a fraction of the price. These would be attached to the same dongle.

            mekene

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            • #7
              SOS for Vray for Rhino

              Hi,

              I'm a Vray for Rhino user and ask me - will be any benefit of this step for the VfR user? Since many years there is no update, upgrade, service release or bug fix for Vray for rhino user. Will the acquisition of ASGvis bring more development power to the Vray for Rhino development? VfR dosn't match the known Vray quality, there is no software support since years. How long this worst case of software support will stay?

              The developement of Vray for SketchUp should be the base for VfR, but what I have seen from the latest VfSU release gave me the feeling, that I doesn't want to work with it - the UI was chaotic looking.

              I'm curious to her any news and hope the VfR nightmare will have an end soon and anything will be like expected from a standard software developer. Doe's Chaosgroup tested the ASGvis plugins and plan to support the development? Is the VfR situation known and accepted by chaosgroup? When can be a quality plugin for Rhino expected? More than three years of no progress is a lot of time for a render software.

              I lost my hope for VfR.
              Micha
              www.simulacrum.de ... visualization for designer and architects

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