Who are the top 10?
Hailing from Canada, Ireland, Baltimore, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia and Luminate’s homebase of Rochester itself, these emerging startups represent the changing face of an industry that spans medicine, virtual and augmented reality and an ever-increasing range of lasers, scopes, displays and other photonic devices.
Arovia, Inc., from Houston, wants to enhance the future of mobile media viewing with its Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD), the first collapsible display of its kind. SPUD allows users to instantly “pop-up” a 24-inch screen that connects to any mobile device and folds into the size of a book for immediate portability.
Bounce Imaging may be a virtual reality company, but the Boston-based startup has a goal worthier than pure entertainment: to provide first responders with a tactical camera that lets them reassemble a pixel-perfect, stabilized panoramic reconstruction of an accident scene in 360-degree virtual reality. Bounce’s technology is noise-resistant and highly efficient, some 200 times faster than alternative approaches, ensuring that the full scope of an accident or disaster can be analyzed as quickly as possible.
Philadelphia’s Double Helix LLC created its nanoscale Light Engineering™ technology to help enhance the 3-D information that is making its way into many real-world applications like cellular research and surgical navigation. The novel technology renders more depth and resolution and picks up 3-D details from objects as small as 20 nanometers.
Another Boston-based company, Intelon Optics Inc., is developing medical devices that let ophthalmologists and surgeons get better images of the entire eye structure. Using the Brillouin Optical Scanner System (BOSS™), the technology enables next-generation, point-by-point biomechanical imaging that could redefine medical imaging of the human eye.
LighTopTech Corp., a Rochester company, is putting its high-res imaging technology under the microscope. Their proprietary microscope design provides high-definition imaging that, like an ultrasound, allows you to see below the surface of nontransparent materials or human tissue.
Canadian company Lumotune makes Digital Glass, a messaging platform that creates customizable digital displays on storefront windows that are visible in daylight and easy to update.
Molecular Glasses, Inc., another Rochester native, is set to transform Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays, commonly used to create digital displays on devices like television screens and mobile phones. The technology will reduce power consumption, create higher display resolution and simplify the manufacturing process to greatly reduce the cost of creating OLED displays at every size.
Rochester’s Positive Science has a simple plan to streamline the Virtual Reality (VR) post process: use an optimized combination of hardware and software to easily capture and analyze eye-tracking information in any environment. They currently specialize in developing VR headgear for adults and children as well as for animal research and for use by the military.
Tarsier Optics, Inc. will manufacture and market cameras that capture air turbulence-free images for military vehicles, aircraft and drones. Their innovation, Quantum Camera, provides the ability to obtain ultra-high resolution images from aerial or on-the-ground angles at safe distances from targets.
Think Biosolution from Dublin, Ireland, is developing QuasaR™, a wearable personal fitness trainer using camera-based sensors embedded in athletic attire. The product can accurately measure a user's heart rate and variability, respiratory rate and blood oxygen saturation with medical-grade accuracy. It combines this data with information about the user’s speed for more personalized coaching routines.
