Dayton manages Digital Air's technology development and supervises its productions.
In 2007 Dayton received the Saxby Award for achievement in the field of three-dimensional imaging from the Royal Photographic Society in London.
Dayton's original prototype Timetrack™ film camera (1994) is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
Dayton's short film, LOVE'S CHOICE (director), is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.