Wavefront Technologies founders Bill Kovacs and Roy A. Hall received a 1997 Academy Award for the creative leadership (Kovacs) and the principal engineering (Hall) efforts that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.
The technology is applied in Beam Shaping, Astronomy, Vision Science, retinal imaging, general Microscopyand supports national defense; any application in need of wavefront manipulation.
Such products include "movie Grade" software, not limited to but including programs, such as Maya, from the Toronto-based animation firm, Aliaswavefront, now owned by Autodesk).
In acoustics, the sound pressure of a spherical wavefront radiating from a point source decreases by 50% as the distance r is doubled; measured in dB, the decrease is still 6.02 dB, since dB represents an intensity ratio.
With Principal Instructor Certification from Alias/Wavefront on Maya and Power Animator, Gene's taught 3D modeling and animation for over ten years.
The project foundation was laid out at the Visual Arts Program at MIT, employing Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer on a Silicon Graphics personal IRIS.
The Holophones loudspeaker system was designed in 1999 by composer Michelangelo Lupone and realized at CRM – Centro Ricerche Musicali in Rome, in order to realize a specific sound spatialization defined as "wavefront sculpture".
They have also preformed at a number of festivals around the world since the release of their debut album including Glastonbury Music Festival (UK), South by Southwest (Austin, Texas, US), Canadian Music Week (Toronto, Canada), Summerfest (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US), CMJ Festival (New York City, US), Wavefront Music Festival (Chicago, Illinois, US), The Great Escape (UK), and Homebake (Australia).
The company was acquired in 2005 by OmniVision Technologies, which has released wavefront-coding-based mobile camera chips as TrueFocus sensors.
Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc. is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta Canada and has offices in Calgary, Alberta and Cambridge, Ontario.