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I thought this was fixed?
It is, depending on your phone make and model.
Good luck if your Android phone is not available in the US. Snapchat will very likely never whitelist it.
Snap launches its first drone
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#82I think this is such a fun/playful idea, kudos to Snap! Their first hardware product pretty much bombed but this is oddly one of the first consumer tech toys in a while that I've felt I wanted. I can definitely see this being a fun thing to bring out in the backyard or to cookouts/parties, especially as a dad with young kids too. A couple things I'd be a bit worried about: * Battery life would need to last long enoug…
No quad-rotor drone battery this size can last for hours; it's just not possible with the specific energy available in batteries. If the entire drone were a battery (i.e. the rotors and housing were mass-less), it could last 45 mins. I expect battery life to be around 20 mins.
Re: Snap launches its first drone
#83I think this is such a fun/playful idea, kudos to Snap! Their first hardware product pretty much bombed but this is oddly one of the first consumer tech toys in a while that I've felt I wanted. I can definitely see this being a fun thing to bring out in the backyard or to cookouts/parties, especially as a dad with young kids too. A couple things I'd be a bit worried about: * Battery life would need to last long enoug…
> Would there be an audible hum in the video it records from the 4x propellers? And for those who are at the beach just trying to enjoy a little time away from the city. The folks at the beach near me are already fed up with ubiquitous Bluetooth speakers.
I am so tempted to start a hardware company that makes auto aiming bbguns, slingshots and one more thing... predator drones (in-app purchase doom metal and eagle noises).
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#84Refreshingly honest about the video quality you should expect in the main promo video. Typical problems like dynamic range, color profile, light bleed and tracking problems with the top of the head being cut off at one point. Pretty typical unless you spend more money on your drone or camera equipment. There are so many companies that fake the footage or pick much easier shooting locations.
There is probably a market for pocket drone that can carry iPhone and take selfie just like this.
Isn't iPhone too heavy for drone to carry around photographing?
Re: Snap launches its first drone
#85I think this is such a fun/playful idea, kudos to Snap! Their first hardware product pretty much bombed but this is oddly one of the first consumer tech toys in a while that I've felt I wanted. I can definitely see this being a fun thing to bring out in the backyard or to cookouts/parties, especially as a dad with young kids too. A couple things I'd be a bit worried about: * Battery life would need to last long enoug…
The Pixy is good for "5-8 flights using the default flight modes" and the default flight duration seems to be 30 seconds. Therefore, the battery will likely last you at most 4 minutes.
https://support.pixy.com/hc/en-us/articles/5039935499924-Abo...
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>Would there be an audible hum in the video it records from the 4x propellers? 100% yes and this is why every drone video ever has music over it.
If they can put a dog nose and tongue on a video with AI, I would guess maybe removing the sound of the drone is possible.
AI is not even required, it would be quite easy to filter out the frequency of the noise from the rotors using technology that has existed for decades if not almost 100 years, indeed Butterworth was designing his filters in the 1930’s
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#87Refreshingly honest about the video quality you should expect in the main promo video. Typical problems like dynamic range, color profile, light bleed and tracking problems with the top of the head being cut off at one point. Pretty typical unless you spend more money on your drone or camera equipment. There are so many companies that fake the footage or pick much easier shooting locations.
There is probably a market for pocket drone that can carry iPhone and take selfie just like this.
iPhone 12 mini weighs 135g, over half the 250g limit for mini-drones. It seems unfeasible for a pocket-size drone in the near future, unless the drone could pull power from the iPhone and not need its own battery.
Mavic Mini has a payload capacity around 180g, but it also has a nice camera already.
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Max flight time is 60 seconds according to a settings screen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LwntvUVUV8&t=22s
So, 5-8 minutes max of flight time per battery…sigh. Even assuming 60-sec is the “default” flight time.
The video appears to imply that 30 seconds is the default flight time.
So I'd estimate 2.5 - 4 minutes of flight time per battery.
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#89cue my dystopian paranoia self: in a few short years technology like this will enable the effortless creation of a perfect, stylish, witty video of each and every day of your life, shot and edited in complete autonomy.
Which shows you at your best.
And expresses none of your fears, anxieties, inelegancies, loneliness, family trauma, time wasting or thoughtless cruelty.
Fast forward another nanosecond in the singularity. Devices like this camera will connect to the internet & ingest your personal timeline. They will respond by themselves to your friends' posts, mimicking their trends, one-upping their flexes, out-cooling them in a constantly accelerating arms race.
Our role in this algorithmic glammering will shrink to nothing as deepfakes expand in scope and become so much interesting than reality.
in the end our bodies will become irrelevant, as we watch our "selves" and our "friends" enact reality in a second, much better, universe.
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#90I think it's interesting how much the FAA's 250 gram rule has impacted drone manufacturing. Even if it was technically possible I couldn't imagine a company like SNAP launching a drone like this in the previous regulatory grey area of drones.
Pixy weighs just 101 grams. They could have easily gone for a more practical battery life (it seems it's around 5 minutes currently?!), but for some reason chose not to.