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SkyDrone
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13 years ago

Sky Drone FPV + Oculus VR demoed by Sky Drone Team

I just wanted to share the news that the Sky Drone team has demoed their Sky Drone FPV system with the Oculus VR set. Therefore, the FPV video of a drone/UAV flying in mid air can be distorted in real-time and shown inside an Oculus VR headset. Keep in mind that this is only the beginning of our development process for the Oculus VR - many more features to come (e.g. 3D, Headtracking).

Watch the Sky Drone FPV + Oculus VR video here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sky-drone-fpv/x/3767302?c=activity

P.S.: If we don't reach our funding goal we will still go ahead with Sky Drone FPV. While sticking to our timeline of shipping the Sky Drone FPV sets in December 2013, we will only have a groundstation app for Android at start. Other platforms will be supported later (free of charge). The only way to secure the Early Bird price ($349) of a Sky Drone FPV set, is to purchase the Early Bird perk before this Indiegogo campaign expires. If the funding goal is not reached, Early Bird funders will get discount information to order from our website later. We are 100% committed to our technology and we will prevail. 

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  • jtinz's avatar
    jtinz
    Honored Guest
    13 years ago
    The Sky Drone FPV looks promising and there's a good chance that my boss, who is a FPV enthusiast, will buy this as well as an Oculus Rift.

    I've been thinking along similar lines and I wonder if it would be possible to use an unmodified smartphone on the sender side. Given that you seem to be using a 3G connection and a smartphone as the receiver, this can't be completely unrealistic.

    Do you think such a solution is feasible? What would be the biggest hurdles and why did you choose to use custom hardware?
  • SkyDrone's avatar
    SkyDrone
    Honored Guest
    13 years ago
    There is a little more than 1 day left in our campaign and we would like point out again that we are 100% committed to our technology.

    With only 1 day left in our campaign, there is also only 1 day left to secure the Early Bird price for a Sky Drone FPV set.

    Sky Drone FPV campaign: http://www.skydrone.aero/fpv-indiegogo
  • SkyDrone's avatar
    SkyDrone
    Honored Guest
    13 years ago
    "jtinz" wrote:

    I've been thinking along similar lines and I wonder if it would be possible to use an unmodified smartphone on the sender side. Given that you seem to be using a 3G connection and a smartphone as the receiver, this can't be completely unrealistic.

    Do you think such a solution is feasible? What would be the biggest hurdles and why did you choose to use custom hardware?

    As a hack solution for a proof of concept that would definitively work. But it will never work as a reliable out of the box solution. You do not have complete control over the whole OS - in particular if it crashes, network goes down etc. Furthermore, there is no point in lifting a LCD display and extra battery - that needs extra charger etc.

    Also most cell phone cameras might point somewhere you do not want them to point at - and have an undesirable FOV (Field Of View).
  • SkyDrone's avatar
    SkyDrone
    Honored Guest
    13 years ago
    We have just launched our new website and want to give you some updates on Sky Drone FPV:

    - Better camera an optics
    - Oculus Rift support incl. headtracking
    - Groundstation support Android and Windows 7/8
    - Faster Camera to CPU interface to further decrease latency
    - Case

    Sky Drone FPV is available for pre-order now.
    You can check out our new website here: http://www.skydrone.aero

    More videos to come soon.