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>"...INCLUDING UNMANNED AND REMOTE CONTROLLED AIRCRAFT, ARE PROHIBITED WITHIN A 3 NMR OF 282445N/0813420W OR THE ORL238014.8 UP TO AND INCLUDING 3000FT AGL."
I wonder if this will be enforced if people try to bring these to magic kingdom.
Refreshingly 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.
That is nice, but there is still intentionally misleading marketing fluff like this: >Each rechargeable battery allows you to capture content for 5-8 flights, depending on the flight mode(s) selected. Rechargeable batteries can be swapped for easy use... Why phrase it like that? That gives zero impression of what the actual battery life is because I have no idea what a "flight" means as a unit of measurement. Just te…
I kinda feel sad for Snap for even trying. I remember Snap was one of the very first meme stock. They failed with their camera spectacles. They failed to keep up with computer vision compared to TikTok and shift towards Gen Z. They failed to come up with a decent creators monetization system. Recently I read that they are signing MOUs with entertainment companies that involved AR tech. And now they are involved in ma…
I mean this in the kindest way possible: I suspect you're out of touch. Snapchat is used by more than 90% of 13-24 year olds in the USA and Gen-Z increasingly prefers it to any other form of communications social media. The ephemeral, personal nature of snap has been enormously popular with the youngest generation, and there's no sign of it stopping. Latest Q1 reports show daily users up 18% annually, 2 million more…
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I'm not sure that I follow what you are saying. Are you suggesting the expectation is that each flight yields one photo? It takes milliseconds not minutes to take a photo. I would expect this thing to be taking photos nearly continuously during flight which would make flight time the most informative metric.
I don't think you're their target demographic.
"Flights" is a bad metric if they don't define it. Whatever your age, gender, income, it doesn't change that it's meaningless.
There is a pretty "permanent" NOTAM around Disney World that applies to >"...INCLUDING UNMANNED AND REMOTE CONTROLLED AIRCRAFT, ARE PROHIBITED WITHIN A 3 NMR OF 282445N/0813420W OR THE ORL238014.8 UP TO AND INCLUDING 3000FT AGL." I wonder if this will be enforced if people try to bring these to magic kingdom. https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_4_3634.html
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-bz-disne...
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I don't think you're their target demographic.
Asking for clarification on battery life means I'm not their target demo? That is rather condescending to their customers. Battery life seems like a basic thing someone might want to know before spending a few hundred bucks on something like this.
Now make them cheap, connect it to social media, and target them at teens.
Let's hope these don't take off (pun intended). At least they can only run for a few minutes per battery charge.
WSJ has good review including how it works: https://www.wsj.com/articles/snap-pixy-review-dont-call-it-a... https://archive.is/zW515 Excerpt: Turn the Pixy’s dial to one of its four flying modes.. Hover: Here, the Pixy reverses a couple of feet and floats in front of you like a hummingbird. In the Snapchat app, you can customize, up to 60 seconds, how long you’d like it to capture video Reveal: Like a traditional dro…
Just what the world needed. Another annoying device out in the sky to fly over your fence, in your yard, in the park, cinemas, public places, restaurants, concerts, at the beach or...in your face.
We must be living in different worlds. The number of times I've been annoyed by a drone is.. 0. The rare times I even do see someone fly a drone I think, "Oh cool, someone having fun fly a drone". I think learning to enjoy life and not getting smugly annoyed by the tiniest of inconveniences is a trait that people need to practice.
Don't think it should be banned or anything though.
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> 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.
Cyclists as well. Someone should popularize an ultrasonic directional Bluetooth speaker for these use cases that won’t destroy the peace of public spaces.