Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018)
The most positive aspect of the drone aerial demo concept I've seen is that it's an alternative to firework displays that's silent, smokeless, generally safer, and re-usable.
I should have added to the title that this is from 2018. Apparently it's a swarm of 2018 drones.
Does anybody know of a blog post where this is explained? In particular, choreographing the movements of the swarm looks terrifyingly hard.
How does this work? How are all the drones capable of locating themselves in space with such precision? Anybody have any information on this?
Somewhat terrifying to imagine what the military is going to do with coordinated drone swarms. Like a smart cluster bomb with no wasted explosions. I suppose, though, less unexploded munitions laying around afterwards.
Well, that's one way to make a 3D display. Forget all the eye trickery stuff, just place the pixels in actual 3D space.
ODESZA used what appears to be a simpler version this technology during their live performance at Coachella in 2018 [1]. It was definitely sponsored by HP/Intel.
I'd imagine the software flying the drones would have to compensate for the downdraft of the nearby drones and the turbulence. It would be interesting to see the software side of things. Can't wait for the open source project.
Did the world really need a way to put giant glowing fucking ads in the sky.
I would love to know if this is cheaper than fireworks for municipal displays.
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Lucky HN isn't to technical since it's kinda obvious.
1,500 drones
And more importantly speed up.
Source - https://youtu.be/KhDEEN4gcpI?t=110
why don't they start putting fireworks ON drones to let them explode in special directions while they are already flying in formation. you can take a lot of the excess propellant out, and pack much more of the shiny colored flaming stuff to make for one hell of a precision directed fireworks display. this is so damn obvious to me , but no ones thought to do it yet.
Here's a thought. What if drones also projected sound, not just light?
Intel shooting 2018 star drones.
Shooting with what?
The scary thing is that this is using a not-very-amazing flight control system and if the better flight controller systems did this they wouldn't have to worry about stray drones or speeding up the video in post-production.