We have a team built on know-how / synergy / innovation. Grace Annese is a great addition to our dynamic team of imaging and optic experts.
Employee SPotlight: Imaging Software EngiNeer Grace Annese
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Circle Optics Participates In NextCorps’ Manufacturing Accelerator
Rochester, New York, is globally recognized for cutting-edge developments in smart energy, research and development, health imaging, food and beverage manufacturing and especially optics and imaging. Circle Optics' headquarters is located in the heart of the city at...
Q & A with Founder Zak Niazi
Zak Niazi shares the Circle Optics vision and the technology road map.
Employee Spotlight: Chief Technology Officer Allen Krisiloff
We at Circle Optics are an eclectic group of interesting people who are deeply curious and want to make a difference through optic innovation. Meet Chief Technology Officer, Allen Krisiloff. Where did your interest in optics begin? In the middle of the space race, I...
A Masterclass in the User Experience – The Autism Nature Trail
Jennifer Sertl and Loren Penman, Co-Chair, Autism Nature Trail (The ANT) at Letchworth State Park discuss the history of The ANT and the design principles that went into creating the mile-long trail. The level of expertise that went into creating the eight stations along the loop is a masterclass in the user-experience. Reminding all of us in innovation to ensure that we design our services and products with the end user all along the way.
Strategic Growth & Funding With Ian Gauger
Ian Gauger is a graduate of both the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Before joining Circle Optics, he worked in the field of architecture. In 2019, he joined Circle Optics as the first employee and established all company operations,...
Digital Documentarian John Kucko
We have a legend in Rochester, New York: John Kucko. Most of you know him from his epic career as Sports Director at WROC Television Channel 8. He has covered the Buffalo Bills' four Super Bowl teams, the 1989 US Open, the 1995 Ryder Cup matches, and the 85th PGA...
Partnership Announcement Between Airial Robotics and Circle Optics
Circle Optics, innovators with patented technology enabling real-time, high-resolution multi-camera systems that provide panoramic video without the distortion and errors inherent in other systems, is partnering with Airial Robotics. Airial Robotics is known for...
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Circle Optics Secures $1.25 Million to Advance Stitch-Free 360-Degree Camera Technology
Rochester, New York, February 14, 2023: Circle Optics, inventors of the world's only stitch-free panoramic camera system, has just secured a $1.25 M contract to further advance their groundbreaking technology. The company's 360-degree camera offers a revolutionary new...
It is Never Too early to Get Job Experience – Sonakshi Das, RIT Intern
It’s never too early to get job experience. Rochester Institute of Technology sophomore Sonakshi Das joins Circle Optics team as an intern in the area of business administration.
DR. WAYNE KNOX: RESEARCH, INNOVATION & INSPIRATION
Our Founder Zak Niazi was an optics student at the University of Rochester and was fortunate to have Dr. Wayne Knox as his Optics 101 Professor. Dr. Wayne Knox has over 50 patents in the United States and 150 globally in the areas of technology, telecommunications and...
2022 YEAR IN REVIEW
2022 was a big year for Circle Optics! We grew in a lot of significant ways and made progress towards a number of our organizational goals. Job Growth We added 4 new team members, 3 of which fit with our commitment to increasing DEI at the company. These new...
Partnership Announcement Between Circle Optics and Archangel Imaging
Next Stage of Platform Intelligence- Combining 360-Degree Imaging With Data Science & Software Rochester, New York, January 3, 2023 Circle Optics, innovators with patented technology enabling real-time, high-resolution multi-camera systems that provide...
Vendor Spotlight: Vertex Optics
Circle Optics culture is built on know-how | synergy | innovation. That is from the inside out and we apply the same filter with our customers, vendors and community at large. Vertex Optics has been an ideal vendor partner with Circle Optics We appreciate their Mission: Vertex Optics partners with its customers to build strong, mutually prosperous relationships while providing high quality vitreous components with expedited deliveries. “In spec and on time” is their mantra.
Knowing the Forest and the Trees – Employee Spotlight Andrew Kurtz Circle Optics Chief Research Officer
We at Circle Optics are an eclectic group of interesting people who are deeply curious and want to make a difference through immersive experience. Meet Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Kurtz. Andrew was employee number three coming to Circle Optics with already over 110 patents from his work as Principal Scientist and Director of R & D at IMAX, after working for many years as a Scientist in the Kodak R&D Labs.
Circle Optics Recognized As One Of Pepperdine’s Most Fundable Companies
Rochester, New York, Oct. 14 2022: Circle Optics is delighted to announce that it achieved the Silver recognition on the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School's fifth annual Most Fundable Companies® List. Circle Optics competed against over 4,000 of early-stage US...
Beyond The Line of Sight with Circle Optics Founder & CEO Zak Niazi
Zak Niazi presenting "Beyond The Line of Sight" at the Drones & Robotics Summit in NYC September 2022. The 1950s were the golden age of air travel. Flying was extremely glamorous. People would dress up. Booze was served in fancy glassware and the meals consisted...
Circle OptIcs Awarded $250K SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Contract
Circle Optics announces it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a STTR Phase I in the amount of $250K to investigate how its Hydra 2 might enable In-space Service Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities being explored by the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and...
ENHANCING SLAM CAPABILITY TO CIRCLE ~ AJIT MUTALIK
We at Circle Optics are an eclectic group of interesting people who are deeply curious and want to make a difference through immersive experience in aerospace, robotics and entertainment. Meet Ajit Mutalik our Computer Vision Intern pursuing a Master’s of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo. He is contributing to our SLAM capabilities. SLAM stands for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, it a method used by autonomous systems to build maps of the environment while localizing in it. The map is used for navigation and obstacle avoidance.
Leveraging Company Culture as a Flywheel for Strategic Growth-continued
By Ian Gauger, Chief Operating Officer Circle Optics, Inc. was founded in December of 2017, though, the company’s origins extend much further back, to a senior lens design course at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics attended by founder Zak Niazi. The...
Carlos Terrero – Engineering, Mentorship & The Promise of Immersive Technology
We at Circle Optics are an eclectic group of interesting people who are deeply curious and want to make a difference through immersive experience. Meet Carlos Terrero, PE, our Senior Mechanical Engineer. Originally from Puerto Rico and formerly working at Xerox, he comes to Circle with almost 40 patents and an innate drive for reinvention.
Leveraging Company Culture as a Flywheel for Strategic Growth –
Ian Gauger, Circle Optics Chief Operating Officer Circle Optics, Inc. was founded in December of 2017, though, the company’s origins extend much further back, to a senior lens design course at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics attended by...
Circle Optics Team Spotlight – Mitchell Baller
We at Circle Optics are an eclectic group of interesting people who are deeply curious and want to make a difference through immersive experience in aerospace, robotics and entertainment. Meet Michell Baller our Computer Science Co-op. Baller is pursuing a Master of Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
NASA Awards Circle Optics a Phase I Contract to Enhance Detect and Avoid Optical Sensing for Urban Air Mobility
NASA Awards Circle Optics a Phase I Contract to Enhance Detect and Avoid Optical Sensing for Urban Air Mobility
Art, Perception and Technology
Circle Optics physics first solution uses polygonal lenses that align along their edges without parallax distortion. Like our own technology, we love stories about innovation. One such story is by artist Mark Matthews who created a new method for designing glass objects – precision air entrapment.
INNOVATION PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE – SKYDOME AT GRIFFISS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Recently we were part of the Hanger Bay Skydome ribbon cutting. Skydome is a building that was once a hangar for B-52 Bombers, is now the largest FAA designated indoor drone testing site in the country. It was amazing to be sitting inside of a WWII hangar thinking about the past, present and future.
Reflections from COO Ian Gauger – Collision conference 2022
The Collision Conference brings together leading technology companies and top media including 35,562 attendees, 1557 startups and 793 investors. It is a place we want our technology represented. This year our COO Ian Gauger and Senior Optical Engineer John Bowron...
Circle Optics Features NASA Inventor & Visionary Ricardo Arteaga
Given our commitment to the power of “what if?” and the dedication to imagine what has not yet been built, we were able to collaborate with Ricardo Arteaga, Flight Systems Engineer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. We appreciate that he took time to speak...