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Wow! Preordered, but used my AMEX in case it turns out to be VaporWare.
Out of curiousity, what does your AMEX card offer if this is VarporWare?
Wow! Preordered, but used my AMEX in case it turns out to be VaporWare.
Out of curiousity, what does your AMEX card offer if this is VarporWare?
This is cool. I've been dreaming about something similar. In my mind though it would be smaller and could hitch a ride on your shoulder.
It's still hard to part with my money (even at 50% off) when the ship date is next year though. I've been burned by various kickstarter projects that get delayed ad infinitum.
These are cool, but... 1) 20 minutes is great if your sole purpose is getting video, but not if your sole purpose is surfing (let's say). A surf session might be 2 hours. Taking a break to put your dead flying camera away in the middle of it isn't ideal. Still there could be work around for this at some point. 2) Air space. The real problem. If you're surfing (again) or skiing you'll annoy everyone with the sound of…
But yes, 20 minutes is really short, it's its major default. I suppose it was a necessary sacrifice to make this kind of product at this time.
This is great. Now, we're just waiting for better batteries: stretching out 20 minutes of flight time across a day or even morning of skiing, kayaking, etc. is going to be difficult. I guess you can carry batteries with you.
I wonder how this handles obstacles. The trails we ride are not wide open ski slopes, or rivers, often times they are tight/wooded trails. Would like to see how it handles "close following". Lastly, the part in the video where the guy just tosses it into the river was definitely mind-blowing.
It doesn't have obstacle avoidance or it will make a massive deal of it.
This is great. Now, we're just waiting for better batteries: stretching out 20 minutes of flight time across a day or even morning of skiing, kayaking, etc. is going to be difficult. I guess you can carry batteries with you.
It's waterproof, but still the lens will get wet. How did they solve that? Also, does it have built-in collision avoidance?