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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...
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.
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...
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 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...
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.
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...
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Circle Optics, a company in RIT’s Venture Creations technology business incubator, was named a finalist in the Genius NY accelerator program. Circle Optics was one among 600 applicants that rose to the top five for the program, which will come with an investment of...
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Empire State Development (ESD) today announced the five teams selected to take part in round five of the innovative GENIUS NY business accelerator program. Supported by the CNY Rising Upstate Revitalization Initiative and administered by CenterState CEO at the Tech...
Syracuse – GENIUS NY, a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, today announced the five finalists companies selected for its fifth round. These startup unmanned systems and robotics companies will participate in the year-long program and will...
ROCHESTER, N.Y., - Circle Optics beat out more than 600 applicants to be selected as one of five finalists from around the world to receive a total of $3 Million in investments and participate the GENIUS NY accelerator in CNY. GENIUS NY is a business accelerator...
Genius NY, a business-accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, on Tuesday announced 13 teams as semifinalists in the competition’s fifth round. Selected from 600 applications from more than 50 countries, Circle Optics is honored to announce that we are...
Genius NY, a business-accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, on Tuesday announced 13 teams as semifinalists in the competition’s fifth round. Selected from 600 applications from more than 50 countries, Circle Optics is honored to announce that we are...
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK – Circle Optics, Inc. announces that it has been awarded two Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts and one Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the United States Air Force through the AFWERX innovation...
In response to the region's comprehensive strategy to revitalize communities and grow the Economy, Circle Optics is committed to creating approximately 60 jobs in upstate NY. Circle Optics CEO Zak Niazi said, "Since moving our company to Rochester in 2019, we have...
SunDensity and Circle Optics, two participants in the state-funded Luminate NY Competition have committed to creating nearly 120 jobs in the city of Rochester's Downtown Innovation Zone Read Story
ROCHESTER, N.Y., [MARCH 29, 2021] ‒ Circle Optics is a pioneer in the creation of wide field-of-view, parallax-free camera systems which use a patented method of aligning polygonal lens systems with polygonal fields-of-view to produce 360° panoramas at the speed of...