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KARLSRUHE, Germany, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Following M&A, Company Announces Leadership Hires, Innovation Lab, and First

Steps Toward a Unified Visualization Workflow

Chaos [ https://www.chaos.com/ ] announces impressive momentum toward creating

a comprehensive visualization ecosystem. Within the past year, in response to

growing demand for more easily accessible 3D, augmented reality (AR), and

virtual reality (VR) technology, the company merged with Enscape [

https://enscape3d.com/ ], a leading provider of real-time rendering and virtual

reality technology. It also acquired Cylindo [ https://www.cylindo.com/ ], a

leading 3D furniture product visualization platform for commerce, and

CGarchitect [ https://www.cgarchitect.com/ ], an open online community for

architectural visualization. The newly combined company now serves as global

leader in visualization, providing technology, tools, and community for

participants across the entire design spectrum, from architects and designers

to 3D artists and manufacturers.

Chaos also announces new leadership hires to support its growth. Michael

Tritschler, formerly at Siemens Digital Industries Software, has been appointed

Chief Financial Officer of Chaos. Tobias Espig, formerly at Google, has

recently joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer.

"We are committed to making visualization software and workflows accessible to

everyone involved in the design process and we are proud of our momentum," said

Christian Lang, CEO of Chaos. "By merging complementary technologies and

expertise, we are able to unite stakeholders in the design process, remove

barriers, and provide the tools needed to quickly, easily, and collaboratively

bring ideas to life. Doing so, we are creating the world's largest 3D

visualization company and helping to define the future of our industry."

Early Product Integration Enhances Design Workflows and Removes Barriers

To remove a challenging bottleneck in architectural design visualization and

enable stronger collaboration through a unified visualization workflow, the

company created the first stages of product integration with the launch of

V-Ray 6 for SketchUp and V-Ray 6 for Rhino. With V-Ray now compatible with

Enscape, architects and designers can deliver complete design intent that 3D

artists can immediately build on to take visualizations to the next level.

The company is working to bring this compatibility to other modeling software,

with V-Ray for Revit coming soon. It will continue to enhance design workflows

for stakeholders, empowering designers and artists to readily leverage the

Cloud and freely exchange data across tools, such as from V-Ray back to

Enscape. Improved collaboration will provide numerous benefits, including

enabling artists to assist designers with materials and custom modeling and

providing designers access to an extensive library of commercial and brand

content.

"For years, design and visualization have worked in a vacuum. Designers would

work in Enscape, technical artists would work in V-Ray, and it was painfully

difficult to transition from one to the other," said Ted Vitale, Owner and

Creative Director at Voxl.Vision. "Connecting Enscape and V-Ray means we

finally have a full visual pipeline where it is easy to transition from the

iterative design process to a fully editable marketing visualization without

losing valuable design information. This is one of the most exciting

developments to have happened since I started in architectural visualization

almost a decade ago."

In addition to the V-Ray and Enscape integration [

https://www.chaos.com/press/chaos-connects-v-ray-6-for-sketchup-and-rhino-to-enscape

], the company expanded its existing product portfolio, including today's

launch of Cylindo Studio [ https://blog.cylindo.com/cylindo-studio ], a

self-service product visualization tool allowing users to create 4K quality

lifestyle imagery in a virtual photo studio. Cylindo Studio is easy to use and

requires no prior 3D knowledge allowing creative teams to efficiently generate

3D images at scale. Other product launches and updates include Enscape for Mac

[ https://enscape3d.com/press/enscape-mac-sketchup-press-release/ ], Enscape

3.3 [ https://enscape3d.com/press/enscape-3-3-press-release/ ] and Enscape 3.4

[ https://enscape3d.com/press/enscape-3-4-press-release/ ]for Windows, V-Ray 6

for 3ds Max [ https://www.chaos.com/press/chaos-releases-v-ray-6-for-3ds-max ],

V-Ray 6 for Maya [ https://www.chaos.com/press/chaos-releases-v-ray-6-for-maya

], V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D [

https://www.chaos.com/press/chaos-releases-v-ray-6-for-cinema-4d ], Corona 8 [

https://www.chaos.com/press/chaos-corona-8-for-3ds-max-and-cinema-4d-now-available

] and Corona 9 [

https://www.chaos.com/press/chaos-ships-corona-9-for-3ds-max-and-cinema-4d ]

for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D, and updates to the Cylindo platform [

https://blog.cylindo.com/product-updates-3d-visuals-made-easy ].

Launch of Chaos Innovation Lab Contributes to Long-Term Vision of

Democratization

Within the past year, Chaos also launched an Innovation Lab, a dedicated

initiative to encourage Chaos employees around the world to share ideas and

research in rendering and related technologies, including artificial

intelligence (AI) and neural networks, that can aid in technology advancement.

Led by Chaos co-founder Vladimir Koylazov and a team of mentors, the Innovation

Lab will partner with academic institutions and other research and development

hubs in graphic technologies to test new concepts and contribute to the

long-term vision of Chaos' products and the future of the industry.

The company also holds an annual hackathon that brings together software

developers to discover and test new ideas for rendering technologies. This

year's Chaos Rendathon event was held in Prague with the participation of

employees from various global offices.

"Our products and solutions have been successful because they have consistently

offered innovative and efficient ways for our users to design and visualize,"

said Koylazov. "Technology is developing very quickly and our goal is to

continue providing the right tools, technologies, and expertise so that

architects, designers, and artists can be more effective and creative."

About Chaos

Chaos develops 3D visualization technology for architecture, engineering,

construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment,

creating intuitive and powerful workflows for participants across the entire

design spectrum.

In 2022 Chaos merged with Enscape and acquired Cylindo. The company's product

portfolio includes V-Ray, a physically based renderer honored with an Academy

Award and an Engineering Emmy; Enscape, a high-quality real-time rendering and

virtual reality plugin; Corona, a high-performance photorealistic rendering

engine; and Cylindo, a 3D furniture product visualization platform for commerce.

Chaos is now the largest global 3D visualization team with more than 700

employees and offices in Karlsruhe, Germany; New York, Los Angeles, Boston,

USA; Sofia, Bulgaria; Copenhagen, Denmark; Bitola, Skopje, North Macedonia. For

more information, visit chaos.com [ https://www.chaos.com/ ], enscape3d.com [

https://enscape3d.com/ ] and cylindo.com [ https://www.cylindo.com/ ].

SOURCE: Chaos