2006 News

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November 24, 2006
State of West Virginia chooses ReportBeam and Vista FX3 for their state wide solution.
 
VS is proud to announce that we have been chosen by West Virginia Dept of Transportation as the successful vendor following a RFQ issuance in September 2006.
 
VS is now supplying a state wide collision/citation reporting system for all WV agencies. VS will be supplying the ReportBeam turnkey collision reporting system like the one that has been in use state wide in Mississippi since 2004. Since the MS system went live, over 200,000 crash reports have been entered by all Mississippi law enforcement agencies.
 
In addition, VS is suppling the West Virginia State Patrol with Vista FX3 Reconstruction edition for all their reconstructionists.
 
We are proud to be part of a state wide initiative to use electronic crash reporting as a foundation tool in making West Virginia roads safer!

October 12, 2006
Trimble Acquires Visual Statement to Expand its Presence in Public Safety
Visual Statement is the latest addition to Trimble, a leading innovator of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. In addition to providing advanced GPS components, Trimble augments GPS with other positioning technologies as well as wireless communications and software to create complete customer solutions.

Click here to read Trimble's Press Release
Click here to visit the Trimble website

September 12, 2006
Massachusetts State Police select Vista FX2 for their team of Fatal Accident Investigators
They join New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Delaware as users of the most comprehensive diagramming program on the market.

September 12, 2006
Visual Statement launches M – FX, the new data collector!
M-FX improves workflow between Total Station and Diagramming Software (Vista FX2). Connects to hardware using Bluetooth wireless technology, and displays points as you shoot them. Basic diagramming capabilities help you edit measurements and add point descriptions. Saving you time later on.

[ more info about M - FX ]

Aug 29, 2006
Vista FX makes the news – again.
Animations from Vista FX are in court all over the country every week and often shown on television news reports. John Velasco of Detroit PD, a long time Vista FX user is featured on his use to demonstrate how crashes happen in Detroit.

Watch RESCUE4 newsclip
RESCUE4 Anatomy of a crash.wmf

July 19, 2006
Mexico purchases Vista FX2 for it's National Police
Ms. Gina Villalobos, the International Spanish Speaking sales manager of Visual Statement announces that The Policia Nationale Preventiva (Mexican National Police) have purchased a country wide license of the Vista FX2 Spanish. In a national commitment to safer roadways and higher quality crash investigations, the PFP chose Vista FX2 as their software solution. Training of hundreds of officers begins July 24 in Mexico City.

June 28, 2006
Santa Fe Sheriffs choose 3D technology from VS
Santa Fe County Sheriffs have purchased the Vista FX2 Pro Recon + edition along with a Nikon NPL 352 total station to map and document 2D and 3D scenes.

Sante Fe Sheriffs chose Vista FX2 for the advanced 3D technology provided for animation, linear momentum analysis, and CrashMath calculations. This agency and thousands of others choose the recon editions from VS to meet all their software requirements in one package.

Now they can download directly from the Nikon total station, complete the scene diagram, calculate speeds, and animate their reconstruction opinions in one package.
Advanced technology - great results!

June 4, 2006
Douglas County Sheriffs Office, CO purchase ReportBeam Hosting
Douglas County purchase ReportBeam and SmartRoads as their collision reporting and diagramming solution. The reporting system is hosted by Visual Statement enabling offcers to submit their reports that are available to the public. Douglas County is going online July 1st.

May 30, 2006
New 3D Animation movies released

Visual Statement reconstructionists have made new Sample animations to show the latest thechnology such as Photo FX for RealMotion 3D, as well as showing the latest improvements in Visual Statement's 3D software.

View Samples

May 11, 2006
Vista FX2 SP3 released

Vista FX2 customers - the latest release Service Pack 3 is now ready for download. Due to the size of the revised application, an uninstall and reinstall is necessary. Here are some fantastic changes that you will really enjoy.

See Release Notes features

April 21, 2006
Photo FX has arrived !!!
The new way to make  3D scenes really realistic.

Visual Statement does it again!
Now our animation (RealMotion 3D) users have another powerful tool that will allow placing a photo of the real scene as the animation backdrop. This technology is brand new, and only found in Vista FX2 RealMotion 3D component.

Users do not have to vary work flow at the scene and can have the image in place in seconds. Talk about reality! To see more, call us for a live demo on how it works and more importantly, how it can work for you.

April 17, 2006
Washington chooses SmartRoads
as their statewide diagramming solution

VS Visual Statement Inc. is very pleased to announce that Washington State Dept. of Transportation have chosen SmartRoads from VS as the state wide diagramming solution, following their RFP which closed on April 7, 2006.
This means that all Washington agencies using the state wide SECTOR Collision Reporting system will have SmartRoads software to allow them to create diagrams for the reports.
 
Washington joins the States of Mississippi, Virginia, Wyoming, and Victoria in Australia. SmartRoads is also available in Spanish and has over 20,000 users worldwide. Washington State users of SmartRoads will have the ability to upgrade into the more powerful Vista FX2 applications for crash and crime scene reconstruction.

March 21, 2006
Crash FX available for Vista FX2

The new Linear Momentum Tool for Vista FX2 has arrived. Momentum Analyses are now even easier, faster and more accurate than before.

Features/Highlights:

• Momentum Analysis on your diagram
• Graphical momentum analysis
• Multiple friction zones
• calcluates friction based on vehicle rotation and braking
• Curvi-linear departure trajectories
• Advanced Reports
• Creates 2D & 3D Animations from momentum results

for more information see Crash FX

March 15, 2006
Law enforcement agencies across Metro Detroit are using
RealMotion 3D to make detailed animations of events.

Wayne County, MI accident  investigators use Vista FX2 with RealMotion 3D to make their case with such success that cases dont even make it to trial.

Full Article on Detroit News
Read Article: http://www.detnews.com/...

February 6, 2006
New package deals:
Vista FX2 is available with Total Stations

Visual Statement now offers Total Station Packages with Vista FX2.

We have added/expanded our product line-up to include Total Stations. We now provide a one stop shop for you! Proving our commitment to offer the best products and service for recon professionals.

more ...

January 18, 2006
Mexican Federal Police purchase Vista FX2

January 17, 2006
Vista FX2 goes Multi Lingual

Due to the huge success of Vista FX2 in North America and Vista FX (sp) in South America, VIsual Statement is expanding the languages Vista FX2 will be available in:

• Spanish
• German
• Italian
• French
• Turkish
• Arabic

January 13, 2006
Richard Rahming wins Diagramming Contest !

Richard Rahming The Winner

This program is a great blessing to us who had to hand-draw, calculate and make conclusions which took a very long time. Thank you very much for making my work a whole lot easier.

Richard Rahming
Asst. Superintendent of Police, Nassau Bahamas
See other top entries of the Diagram Contest >