QUANTUM3D VTREE SELECTED FOR
AIR FIREFIGHTER TASK TRAINER

gForce Technologies to Use VTree for Firefighter Simulator Development

San Jose, CA - October 21, 2002 - Quantum3D^®, Inc. announced today that gForce Technologies has selected VTree^® as the software development toolkit for the creation of its Snozzle simulator, a new part task trainer for aircraft firefighters. VTree, the premier development toolkit for building realtime 3D applications for simulation and training, will be used to create this first-person simulator for training firefighters to extinguish aircraft fires on grounded planes. The first simulator is expected to be deployed at both commercial and military airfields later this year by Crash Rescue Equipment Service, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

After extensive review of available SDKs, gForce Technologies chose VTree for its customizable special effects class and overall ease-of-use. "VTree particle-based special effects and support for smoke, flames, and water spray creates a realistic training environment for the firefighters," said Kurt Kleinsorge, vice president of gForce Technologies.

The Snozzle is a truck-mounted boom equipped with a piercing element. The operator deploys the piercing element into the plane fuselage or engine cavity getting fire fighting agent directly where it is needed. The simulator provides three levels of training: voice proctored tutorial-based used for equipment familiarization, voice proctored fire-fighting, and independent fire-fighting. Goals of the trainer include equipment familiarization, skills training, and skills retention. The fire fighters training on the Snozzle simulator will be scored during each training mission. Training on the system will reduce wear and tear on equipment, improve operator proficiency and reduce application time.

"When an emergency happens, you want the operation of the equipment to be second nature. The Snozzle simulator makes this possible," says Grady North of Crash Rescue Equipment Service, Inc. "The simulator advantage allows each personnel shift-change to hone skills any time of the day, regardless of weather conditions, before going on duty with the equipment. It provides a realistic, but inexpensive and safe environment for firefighters to perform boom manipulations, piercing operations, and other emergency responses before being exposed to the real thing. We're pleased that Quantum3D is working with gForce to accelerate development of the simulator and get us online as fast as possible."

"With the advancement of PC-based visual simulation technologies, more industries are adopting formal simulation and training programs," said Barlow Blake, vice president of marketing for Quantum3D. "Development tools, such as VTree, are helping create the unique special effects for these innovative new applications. We're pleased to be working with gForce on this unique firefighting application."

About VTree SDK
VTree SDK supports all major operating systems including Windows^® 9x/2000/NT, SGI^® IRIX^®, Solaris, and Linux^®. As the premier object-oriented developer toolkit, VTree SDK enables users to easily create, edit, and run interactive real-time visual simulation applications. The extensive VTree feature set reduces development time and accelerates the performance of realtime 3D graphics applications. Features include:

About Quantum3D
Quantum3D^® develops and markets technologies and products that enable the realtime visual computing market. In particular, Quantum3D and its subsidiaries develop realtime 2D/3D visual computing subsystems, integrated systems, software and digital content for the visual simulation and training and embedded visual computing markets. Quantum3D's Independence™, AAlchemy^®, Obsidian^® and Graphite™ family of scaleable, open architecture PC-based image generators (PC-IGs) include mission critical features, industry leading performance, superior graphics and image quality, and unsurpassed value, which have made the products the industry standard for synthetic environment training applications. In addition, Quantum3D creates and distributes realtime development software tools and products including OpenGVS™ and the CG2 family of products: Mantis™, VTree^®, ViXSen™, IData™ and Facets™ -all of which enable developers to fully optimize their applications to benefit from the company's visual computing solutions. Quantum3D is the exclusive supplier of NVIDIA graphics technology for the embedded military and aerospace visual computing market. Quantum3D's embedded visual computing product offerings include the Farsight™ program for custom form factor embedded graphics applications, and the Sentiris™ and Ventana® embedded graphics subsystems for COTS form factor embedded graphics applications. Quantum3D is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information, please see www.quantum3d.com.

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