MOUNT HOREB, WI (WSAU) — A Tech company providing Augmented Reality software to the US Military is moving its headquarters to Wisconsin.
Rapid Imaging has announced plans to move its facility to Mount Horeb, near Madison, in the coming weeks. The move comes after Vice President David Geisler’s takeover of the company. Geisler is a Wisconsin native and former Marine who joined the company in 2003.
According to a release the company was founded by Augmented Reality pioneer Mike Abernathy in 1995. Mr. Abernathy has a storied career in aviation software. He demonstrated one of the first successful AR applications, for space debris, in 1993. He created Landform, synthetic vision software utilized on manned and unmanned aircraft in 1995.
He later introduced SmartCam3D, which was used as the primary flight display for NASA’s X-38 Crew Return Vehicle and serves as the primary product of Rapid Imaging to this day.
Rapid Imaging Technologies will be headquartered in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin and focus on various commercial and Department of Defense projects. The company is in the process of debuting several commercial applications of its software for use on small UAS. This includes with emergency management uses, where the software has recently been fielded in support of Wisconsin flooding, as well as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
