2010 - The Birth of Arvus Digital
Though Arvus Group was founded back in 1983, we did not start manufacturing Digital Signal Processors until we were launching our Hypacoustic® Cinema systems in China for Lumière Pavilions in 2010.
As we were supplying all our own custom audio equipment (loudspeakers, amplifiers and audio processors) there became a need to develop a solution for converting the 8 channels of AES/EBU from the GDC Servers and converting it to PCM over HDMI as our Arvus audio processors only used HDMI for the PCM signal.
Arvus Digital and immediately begins development of the world’s first multi-channel AES/EBU to HDMI Audio interface.
AES/EBU to HDMI interface completed – first 30 units installed in China, India, Australia and New Zealand, www.aes-hdmi.com goes online
Hypacoustic 3 plex in Grafton complete. One large 1200 seat Cinema and two 180 Seat cinemas.
MEDIA – 18th November 2010 – Saraton Cinema launched.
Matthew travels to China 4 times, India twice and Australia 6 times.
September 4th at 4.34am Christchurch has a 7.1 Earthquake – Matthew, Julie and their 3 Children experience this in their home and thus decide to temporarily leave Christchurch for 2 weeks.
November – 3 Multi-Plex sites for Lumiere Pavillions in China complete. Changshu, Nanjing and Huai’An.
Arvus Group Hypascreen™ lands contract to supply a large 20 screen projection solution for Singapore Telecom headquaters.
Neodymium (the rare earth magnet used in Loudspeakers and motors) starts to rapidly increase in value – Matthew starts to feel that traditional loudspeaker technology is becoming outdated and that a new disrupting technology is not too far away.
After over 25 years of speaker evolution, he starts to lose his passion for loudspeakers and begins to look for a new long-term path for Arvus Group. After much discussion Matthew and Julie feel they should look to the energy sector.
2011 | Evolving opportunitiesMEDIA – 14th January 2011 – Arvus Digital’s first of 4 converters launched on ProSoundWeb
January 20th – Another significant aftershock – Julie and Matthew decide that in the near future that they will leave Christchurch, but do not yet know where to.
February – Matthew and Julie decide to further expand their loudspeaker supply business and plan to launch Arvus OEM in April 2011 – work on this starts immediately.
February 22nd – An extremely violent and shallow 6.3 Earthquake strikes at 12.21pm. It’s recorded as having the fastest rate of ground acceleration of any recorded earthquake – 2.2g’s. Matthew, Julie and their youngest son are having lunch when it happens the table lifts in the air over 1.5metres. All the family are OK, but their son Xavier is in the central business district at the time and cannot be contacted for 8 hours after the quake. Over 180 people are killed in the Quake. Julie and Matthew decide to permanently leave Christchurch as soon as possible..
Matthew, Julie and their children, sleep on the floor at Matthew’s sisters unaffected home, while packing up their home. They decide to keep only some of their belongings – get in their car and drive to find a new home and make a new start at life in the North Island for the short term.
March – Homeless living in Motels, Julie and Matthew are invited to be Judges for the MBA presentations at Auckland University Business School – which they agree to. On the way back from Auckland they decide to make a new home in the small but very modern lakeside town of Taupo. Within one week, they have found a home/business premises and the children are in new schools. Although the business interrupted for a couple of months continuation is not a problem.
March – www.oemloudspeakers.com goes online
April – Matthew and Julie have a series of meetings with GNS Science to learn more about the New Zealand and international geothermal power industry. Even in these first stage meetings synergies between GNS Science and Arvus Group are found.
May – Sony® contacts Arvus Digital™ and invests in the development of the first 8 Channel HDMI to AES/EBU converter.
June – The SingTel Headquarters Hypascreen™ project successfully completed. This is currently the worlds largest indoor retail projection system and showcases the technical achievement of the View2View Hypascreen technology. – view on youtube.
June – After years of intermittent development, Arvus Group is now committed to its new Geocoustics™ technology path and discontinues all future loudspeaker based technology development and products excluding any ArvusOEM projects.
August – Arvus Digital starts development of 8 channel Firewire to HDMI converter.
September – Matthew invited to the Australian and NZ SKA project symposium based in Te Papa – Wellington.
October – The NZ Government presents product briefs from about 50 NZ based High Tech companies to “Green Tech” Guru, Vinod Khosla.
He was visiting New Zealand in November. Arvus Group was one of eight chosen by Mr Khosla to share further about their technology and learn from his vast experience. Matthew is inspired to further explore being involved in the energy sector.
MEDIA – 20th November 2011 – Tone article “Innovation rules”
2012 | Future thinkingJanuary – Arvus Group is contracted by the Economic Development Agency of the Taupo District Council (EGLT) to work with and support their emerging businesses many of whom are in the energy sector. One new company that impresses Matthew is NZ Bio-Energy Solutions LTD.
January – Hypascreen Ultra4K™ development started.
February – Arvus commits to developing an innovative solid-state geothermal thermoelectric power generator. A trail 2Kw system is planned for completion by mid 2013. The world unique technology is called Thermagenz™
March – Starts development of USB to HDMI converter.
March – Arvus Group is asked to do a non-biased due diligence project on the possible technical opportunities of investing in Thorium reactor technology for an undisclosed client. The intense one month project revealed many advantages of the Thorium reactor designs and many influential companies and individuals in this emerging industry were contacted. Although the primary investor decided not to pursue the opportunities, Matthew and his team are now pursuing associated technological development.
April – Matthew is appointed as General Manager of the New Zealand Clean Energy Centre for a nine month transitional position. Over this period Matthew becomes immersed in all aspects of clean-tech, plus is asked to host many international delegations. During this time Matthew is listening and learning to the energy sectors’ challenges and opportunities.
April – Matthew and his core team of international engineers have a significant think tank over a series of conference calls and decide to commit to a long term strategy to get involved in the energy sector with some key moral drives put in place – the Arvus Energy™ project is born.
April – first level design blueprints of Thermagenz™ completed.
May – Arvus Group becomes a member of Geothermal New Zealand.
MAY – Arvus Digital completes development of the world’s first HDMI to AES/EBU converter. The HDMI-2A is now used internationally for audio level calibration by companies such as Sony, Dolby, CBS, Warner Bros, AT&T, Park Road Post etc.
June – Matthew travels to Europe (Portugal, UK and Netherlands) and represents New Zealand at the International Power Conference for the Square Kilometer Array project.
MEDIA – 30th July 2012 – NZ Government article on Arvus Group and its involvement in the SKA
August 3rd – Geothermal New Zealand was incorporated at the New Zealand Clean Energy Centre. Arvus Group was one of the 15 founding signatures required for this landmark event.
MEDIA – 15th August 2012 – “peter pan rocketman”
MEDIA – September – Matthew is invited to give a radio interview on New Zealand National Radio on business and his own personal values etc.
September – After continued international communication, Arvus Group now strongly believes in the significant benefits of Thorium based reactors and decide to commit to being involved (in some way) in the evolution of new, safe nuclear reactors. This is a start of a multi-decade journey.
MEDIA – October 6th – Matthew gives a TED Talk on Infrasound at TedX Auckland in front of 2500 people at the Aotea Centre at Auckland – it’s his first significant public talk.
MEDIA – 11th October – article in Unlimited Magazine
October – Although not a nuclear physicist, Matthew is invited to present a paper on Nuclear Thermoelectric heat transfer concepts at the International Thorium Energy Conference in Shanghai. The short talk is well received and many international opportunities spawn from the ideas he shared.
November – Matthew attends the annual Chinese Mining conference in Tianjin
MEDIA – 8th November – Matthew publishes article on Geothermal power
MEDIA – 18th November – Article “good nuclear” in NZ Herald
December – After viewing a TED talk Julie makes direct contact with international organization Kanchi. Key synergies are discovered.
2013 – 2014 | Reaching Beyond the GraspJanuary – Julie decides to begin her Arvus Humanities™ project. The goal of which is to find and/or develop technologies that directly benefit the individual with a physical or neurological challenge.
MEDIA – 25th January – Article in British nuclear publication about Thermagenz™
January – First Arvus Humanities™ project started. A new contact lens technology to help those with eye disorder keratoconus.
January – due to the expected business growth and travel required Matthew and Julie ask their children if they would like to try boarding school – the three children say yes, and by the end of the month are living away from home.
February – after almost 15 months of development the FIRE-2H is officially released.
MEDIA - 4th February – Article about Geocoustics™ posted in SmartPlanet
February – As Julie and Matthew now strongly believe in the many benefits of bio-energy Arvus Group invests in NZ Bio-Energy Solutions and becomes a strategic partner.
February – Both Julie and Matthew are invited to be judges at a Ken Morse entrepreneur workshop in Taupo.
February – Matthew and Julie actively expand the Arvus Digital presence in the international Game and Film post production industries.
February – The development of the worlds first 8 channel USB to HDMI converter the USB-2H is completed 1 year since commencement.
February – ArvusOEM™ starts development of two audio technologies for an international partner.
MEDIA – 12th February – International publication Broadcast Engineering – article on Arvus Digital.
March – First units of USB-2H are shipped to the USA.
March – Arvus HDMI-2A is used to do the final data verification for the latest high-end audio format BluRay Audio Disc. The success of this colaboration is further developed as a strategic relationship is forged between Arvus Group and the format developers.
March – Matthew invited to attend the Japan/New Zealand Geothermal summit
March – First prototypes of the new contact lens made. The technical process is successful enough to justify continued development.
March – First order of the newly developed Hypascreen™ Ultra4K is shipped to India.
MEDIA – 9th March – ProSoundWeb announces the HDMI-2A
March – NZ Bio-Energy Solutions has a booth at the Pacific Energy Conference in Auckland. Matthew attends the conference as well.
April – Arvus Group’s most recently developed digital audio converter the USB-2H is demonstrated at NAB Show in Las Vegas.
April – Arvus Group contracted to design a unique optics solution for a Maxis™ project, a teleco based in Malaysia.
© 2013 Arvus Group
Though Arvus Group was founded back in 1983, we did not start manufacturing Digital Signal Processors until we were launching our Hypacoustic® Cinema systems in China for Lumière Pavilions in 2010.
As we were supplying all our own custom audio equipment (loudspeakers, amplifiers and audio processors) there became a need to develop a solution for converting the 8 channels of AES/EBU from the GDC Servers and converting it to PCM over HDMI as our Arvus audio processors only used HDMI for the PCM signal.
Arvus Digital and immediately begins development of the world’s first multi-channel AES/EBU to HDMI Audio interface.
AES/EBU to HDMI interface completed – first 30 units installed in China, India, Australia and New Zealand, www.aes-hdmi.com goes online
Hypacoustic 3 plex in Grafton complete. One large 1200 seat Cinema and two 180 Seat cinemas.
MEDIA – 18th November 2010 – Saraton Cinema launched.
Matthew travels to China 4 times, India twice and Australia 6 times.
September 4th at 4.34am Christchurch has a 7.1 Earthquake – Matthew, Julie and their 3 Children experience this in their home and thus decide to temporarily leave Christchurch for 2 weeks.
November – 3 Multi-Plex sites for Lumiere Pavillions in China complete. Changshu, Nanjing and Huai’An.
Arvus Group Hypascreen™ lands contract to supply a large 20 screen projection solution for Singapore Telecom headquaters.
Neodymium (the rare earth magnet used in Loudspeakers and motors) starts to rapidly increase in value – Matthew starts to feel that traditional loudspeaker technology is becoming outdated and that a new disrupting technology is not too far away.
After over 25 years of speaker evolution, he starts to lose his passion for loudspeakers and begins to look for a new long-term path for Arvus Group. After much discussion Matthew and Julie feel they should look to the energy sector.
2011 | Evolving opportunitiesMEDIA – 14th January 2011 – Arvus Digital’s first of 4 converters launched on ProSoundWeb
January 20th – Another significant aftershock – Julie and Matthew decide that in the near future that they will leave Christchurch, but do not yet know where to.
February – Matthew and Julie decide to further expand their loudspeaker supply business and plan to launch Arvus OEM in April 2011 – work on this starts immediately.
February 22nd – An extremely violent and shallow 6.3 Earthquake strikes at 12.21pm. It’s recorded as having the fastest rate of ground acceleration of any recorded earthquake – 2.2g’s. Matthew, Julie and their youngest son are having lunch when it happens the table lifts in the air over 1.5metres. All the family are OK, but their son Xavier is in the central business district at the time and cannot be contacted for 8 hours after the quake. Over 180 people are killed in the Quake. Julie and Matthew decide to permanently leave Christchurch as soon as possible..
Matthew, Julie and their children, sleep on the floor at Matthew’s sisters unaffected home, while packing up their home. They decide to keep only some of their belongings – get in their car and drive to find a new home and make a new start at life in the North Island for the short term.
March – Homeless living in Motels, Julie and Matthew are invited to be Judges for the MBA presentations at Auckland University Business School – which they agree to. On the way back from Auckland they decide to make a new home in the small but very modern lakeside town of Taupo. Within one week, they have found a home/business premises and the children are in new schools. Although the business interrupted for a couple of months continuation is not a problem.
March – www.oemloudspeakers.com goes online
April – Matthew and Julie have a series of meetings with GNS Science to learn more about the New Zealand and international geothermal power industry. Even in these first stage meetings synergies between GNS Science and Arvus Group are found.
May – Sony® contacts Arvus Digital™ and invests in the development of the first 8 Channel HDMI to AES/EBU converter.
June – The SingTel Headquarters Hypascreen™ project successfully completed. This is currently the worlds largest indoor retail projection system and showcases the technical achievement of the View2View Hypascreen technology. – view on youtube.
June – After years of intermittent development, Arvus Group is now committed to its new Geocoustics™ technology path and discontinues all future loudspeaker based technology development and products excluding any ArvusOEM projects.
August – Arvus Digital starts development of 8 channel Firewire to HDMI converter.
September – Matthew invited to the Australian and NZ SKA project symposium based in Te Papa – Wellington.
October – The NZ Government presents product briefs from about 50 NZ based High Tech companies to “Green Tech” Guru, Vinod Khosla.
He was visiting New Zealand in November. Arvus Group was one of eight chosen by Mr Khosla to share further about their technology and learn from his vast experience. Matthew is inspired to further explore being involved in the energy sector.
MEDIA – 20th November 2011 – Tone article “Innovation rules”
2012 | Future thinkingJanuary – Arvus Group is contracted by the Economic Development Agency of the Taupo District Council (EGLT) to work with and support their emerging businesses many of whom are in the energy sector. One new company that impresses Matthew is NZ Bio-Energy Solutions LTD.
January – Hypascreen Ultra4K™ development started.
February – Arvus commits to developing an innovative solid-state geothermal thermoelectric power generator. A trail 2Kw system is planned for completion by mid 2013. The world unique technology is called Thermagenz™
March – Starts development of USB to HDMI converter.
March – Arvus Group is asked to do a non-biased due diligence project on the possible technical opportunities of investing in Thorium reactor technology for an undisclosed client. The intense one month project revealed many advantages of the Thorium reactor designs and many influential companies and individuals in this emerging industry were contacted. Although the primary investor decided not to pursue the opportunities, Matthew and his team are now pursuing associated technological development.
April – Matthew is appointed as General Manager of the New Zealand Clean Energy Centre for a nine month transitional position. Over this period Matthew becomes immersed in all aspects of clean-tech, plus is asked to host many international delegations. During this time Matthew is listening and learning to the energy sectors’ challenges and opportunities.
April – Matthew and his core team of international engineers have a significant think tank over a series of conference calls and decide to commit to a long term strategy to get involved in the energy sector with some key moral drives put in place – the Arvus Energy™ project is born.
April – first level design blueprints of Thermagenz™ completed.
May – Arvus Group becomes a member of Geothermal New Zealand.
MAY – Arvus Digital completes development of the world’s first HDMI to AES/EBU converter. The HDMI-2A is now used internationally for audio level calibration by companies such as Sony, Dolby, CBS, Warner Bros, AT&T, Park Road Post etc.
June – Matthew travels to Europe (Portugal, UK and Netherlands) and represents New Zealand at the International Power Conference for the Square Kilometer Array project.
MEDIA – 30th July 2012 – NZ Government article on Arvus Group and its involvement in the SKA
August 3rd – Geothermal New Zealand was incorporated at the New Zealand Clean Energy Centre. Arvus Group was one of the 15 founding signatures required for this landmark event.
MEDIA – 15th August 2012 – “peter pan rocketman”
MEDIA – September – Matthew is invited to give a radio interview on New Zealand National Radio on business and his own personal values etc.
September – After continued international communication, Arvus Group now strongly believes in the significant benefits of Thorium based reactors and decide to commit to being involved (in some way) in the evolution of new, safe nuclear reactors. This is a start of a multi-decade journey.
MEDIA – October 6th – Matthew gives a TED Talk on Infrasound at TedX Auckland in front of 2500 people at the Aotea Centre at Auckland – it’s his first significant public talk.
MEDIA – 11th October – article in Unlimited Magazine
October – Although not a nuclear physicist, Matthew is invited to present a paper on Nuclear Thermoelectric heat transfer concepts at the International Thorium Energy Conference in Shanghai. The short talk is well received and many international opportunities spawn from the ideas he shared.
November – Matthew attends the annual Chinese Mining conference in Tianjin
MEDIA – 8th November – Matthew publishes article on Geothermal power
MEDIA – 18th November – Article “good nuclear” in NZ Herald
December – After viewing a TED talk Julie makes direct contact with international organization Kanchi. Key synergies are discovered.
2013 – 2014 | Reaching Beyond the GraspJanuary – Julie decides to begin her Arvus Humanities™ project. The goal of which is to find and/or develop technologies that directly benefit the individual with a physical or neurological challenge.
MEDIA – 25th January – Article in British nuclear publication about Thermagenz™
January – First Arvus Humanities™ project started. A new contact lens technology to help those with eye disorder keratoconus.
January – due to the expected business growth and travel required Matthew and Julie ask their children if they would like to try boarding school – the three children say yes, and by the end of the month are living away from home.
February – after almost 15 months of development the FIRE-2H is officially released.
MEDIA - 4th February – Article about Geocoustics™ posted in SmartPlanet
February – As Julie and Matthew now strongly believe in the many benefits of bio-energy Arvus Group invests in NZ Bio-Energy Solutions and becomes a strategic partner.
February – Both Julie and Matthew are invited to be judges at a Ken Morse entrepreneur workshop in Taupo.
February – Matthew and Julie actively expand the Arvus Digital presence in the international Game and Film post production industries.
February – The development of the worlds first 8 channel USB to HDMI converter the USB-2H is completed 1 year since commencement.
February – ArvusOEM™ starts development of two audio technologies for an international partner.
MEDIA – 12th February – International publication Broadcast Engineering – article on Arvus Digital.
March – First units of USB-2H are shipped to the USA.
March – Arvus HDMI-2A is used to do the final data verification for the latest high-end audio format BluRay Audio Disc. The success of this colaboration is further developed as a strategic relationship is forged between Arvus Group and the format developers.
March – Matthew invited to attend the Japan/New Zealand Geothermal summit
March – First prototypes of the new contact lens made. The technical process is successful enough to justify continued development.
March – First order of the newly developed Hypascreen™ Ultra4K is shipped to India.
MEDIA – 9th March – ProSoundWeb announces the HDMI-2A
March – NZ Bio-Energy Solutions has a booth at the Pacific Energy Conference in Auckland. Matthew attends the conference as well.
April – Arvus Group’s most recently developed digital audio converter the USB-2H is demonstrated at NAB Show in Las Vegas.
April – Arvus Group contracted to design a unique optics solution for a Maxis™ project, a teleco based in Malaysia.
© 2013 Arvus Group