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Im guessing GPS because their user manual says it can only be used outdoors.
I wonder if it can be miniaturized in future versions- seems like you could eliminate GPS if you used a synthetic aperture bluetooth or wireless receiver to determine direction and ranging for tracking.
Looks to be an amazing piece of engineering but seriously, what's the usecase? It looks to be targeted at the amateur market ('shoot like the pros') and I just don't see the demand or workability in this space. To pick on a few hinted at on the page: A game of football: Leaving a camera on a tripod on the sideline while I'm focused on the game? Not in any park I've ever played in. Taking the stick from my teammates f…
Immediate use: presentations, accurately tracking the speaker without having to hire someone to keep camera on subject the whole time. Even moreso when multiple cameras. Just need one A/V control booth person, much cheaper to buy several of these than hire several cameramen. Think TED Talks, Apple Keynotes, anything fairly big-budget where chasing the random motions of the speaker just doesn't look on par with the mo…
And it would be a use case for the defunct(?) Microsoft Kinect 2.
This is badass. As an athlete whos heavily into extreme sports I'd buy one in a heartbeat. I think you've got some JavaScript issues going on with your page, though, It keep jumping to the top of the page when I'm scrolling down.
From the FAQs: Does SOLOSHOT2 work indoors? Not yet. SOLOSHOT is currently an outdoor only product due to some of the technologies involved. Anybody know why this is the case?
An educated guess would be that it uses GPS for location. It is often not possible to get a lock on the satellites indoors.
If it is indeed using GPS, I'm guessing it's using a GPS in the camera base too, to figure out the correction.
For some reason the page keeps scrolling back to the top in my browser, very annoying.
Would it be possible to mimic these features in post prod? Essentially gather a giant high res shot, using the money spent on fancy feature on higher res. Then run the same algorithms in post to get a similar video?
This is badass. As an athlete whos heavily into extreme sports I'd buy one in a heartbeat. I think you've got some JavaScript issues going on with your page, though, It keep jumping to the top of the page when I'm scrolling down.
No. 1 rule - don't leave anything of value on the beach.
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If only websites trying to be trendy could stop using eye popping font size 70 text that cause me to roll my chair back 10 feet to read the web page.
Will all due respect, for an old guy, I like large fonts :)
I'm not old, but I also like large fonts. Except for sites that completely break if you zoom too much (like HN), there's not problem with designers using small ones.
This is begging for an API or open source firmware. Impressive technology applied to something with limited practical usefulness. For starters, I'd like to decouple the tracking system from the tags.