About VSG, Visualization Sciences Group

VSG Offices in France

Who we are

VSG - Visualization Sciences Group is the leading provider of high-performance 3D visualization toolkits and software for engineers and scientists, delivering advanced 3D software solutions for scientific data visualization, engineering and simulation, materials science and geosciences.

Formerly TGS, VSG then became Visualization Sciences Group of Mercury Computer Systems in May 2004, before becoming a stand-alone company again in June 2009 through a Management Buy-Out.

In September 2011, VSG acquired Noesis , producer of the popular image processing and analysis software VISILOG

Our Mission

VSG's mission has been quite constant over the 25-year history of the company (and its predecessors):

we help our industrial and scientific customers to:

  • Understand the emerging state-of-the-art that can assist them in their business and research.
  • Access powerful new visualization technologies with easy-to-use tools and applications.
  • Protect the development investments that they have made in visualization over time, from changes in prevailing hardware and software visualization practices.

Our Offering

VSG offering consists of two families of products:

  • Open Inventor, an object-oriented 3D graphics toolkit for software development companies that want to use a robust 3D framework to build and sell high-performance applications, and for companies with development resources that desire to create and deploy demanding visualization applications internally.
  • The Avizo family offers an extensive 3D imaging and analysis software tool, ready-to-use by end-user organizations whose engineers and scientists want to visualize and understand complex data, but also providing the whole Open Inventor tool-set in an easy to access, customizable, application framework.

VSG also offers a full range of services and expertise to further help our users to leverage the VSG products and technologies to maximize their benefits.

Finally, VSG products are proposed with exceptional support and maintenance services, that fully ensure reliability and protects long-term investment.

Our Key Values

State-of-the-art 3D Visualization

Capitalizing on 20+ years of expertise in 3D technologies and user interfaces

Very Large Data Management (Volumes & Meshes)

Unique ability to handle out-of-core 3D data provides breakthrough performance

Scalability and Remote Rendering capabilities

Patented technology for distributed and remote rendering

3D Visualization / Computation interoperability

Beyond GPU-Computing: synchronous visualization and computation

Our Customers

VSG serves world-class customers, all leaders in their respective industrial and scientific disciplines. VSG counts hundreds of customers worldwide, including the leading companies in Oil&Gas, Medical, Design & Engineering market segments, as well as major scientific, research and governmental organizations.

Our Team

VSG is composed of a uniquely experienced and strongly committed team. We serve our customers worldwide through R&D, sales and operation offices in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States and through our dedicated distributor channel.

The VSG team meeting