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as well as hyperx so we're here in the parrot Booth
where they're showing off their latest bbop drone this thing is a whole other
Beast it makes the AR Drone 2.0 look like an absolute toy it's got eight
times the power on its CPU it's got a quad core GPU it's got 8 gigs of onboard
storage it's got a 14 megapixel 1080p camera camera it's got a 180° fisheye
style lens but they're doing some special Tom Foolery with the uh with the
image to make sure that horizontal lines don't get distorted it has an array of
sensors that again makes the AR Drone 2.0 look like kind of bad so it's got a
vertical camera it's also got an ultrasonic sensor it's got a pressure
sensor that takes over once the ultrasonic sensor loses its range at I
think it's about 8 m high but no one's looking at me ultrasonic goes around 8 m
High cor okay oh okay sorry excuse me so
it's the high-speed camera and the ultrasonic sensor under about 5 m and
then going above that is the pressure sensor it is extremely lightweight it's
very robust feeling the whole thing comes apart and this thing they are
showing off some unbelievable video footage and all of
their marketing materials for this bad boy thanks to the image stabilization
that's available with it so looking at sort of the typical shaky camera versus
what this guy can do is amazing and it's not just about the image quality either
the stability of this thing in Flight is unbelievable the demo that they're
running here has this bizarre like
surreal almost looking choreographed dance and they had something like eight
or nine Bops out there flying around in a little cage doing flipping over doing
all kinds of crazy stuff this thing looks bananas so you'll get around I
believe it's 200 M on your smartphone
250 M range on your smartphone or your tablet if you're controlling it directly
cuz it still works with the same free flight app that we've seen before well
by by same I mean significantly improved or if you pick up their new controller
you can go ahead and throw your phone or your tablet into that and you get full
joystick controls like well really anyone who wants to have much finer a
much finer degree of control over the Drone would want to have but there's
another benefit as well it actually comes with a wireless range extender so
you can take that 250 M range and extend it to 2 kilm and while okay you're not
going to necessarily get a perfect video feed if the thing is to freaking
kilometers away flying around getting aerial footage but the good news is that
the onboard camera will record correctly even if that feed is not necessarily
correct now another cool thing is they're already talking about support
for the Oculus so you can act you can literally fly around in the air in
virtually R in Virtual reality with this device it comes with a couple of
batteries but I I guess it better at the price this bad boy is not cheap what do
it run about $500 US $500 US yeah but I
definitely want one I'm looking right at you guys both of you we got to try this
out that pretty much does it for the bbop I guess I did miss that there's GPS
so if you program a flight path that'll help it to return home and whoa I think
my uh my next subject here has come in
for a landing okay I'm going help you out so this is the rolling spider this
is actually a prototype right now this this particular model of it is not yet
released you can see it's actually got headlamps so this is obviously a much
smaller more uh more you know kid-friendly toy friendly fun friendly
drone very very robust so it can fly
without its Wheels like this or it can actually be equipped with large wheels
that will not only protect the propellers but also allow you to land it
roll it around along the ground take it off again and do all kinds of fun stuff
with it the battery runs for about 8 minutes and what's cool about this one
is that it's got a lot of the same Technologies as the larger drone so you
still fly it with free flight 3.0 it's still got an ultrasonic sensor on the
bottom as well as a bottom mounted camera that it uses for stability in
order to keep it from drifting all over the place which can also take snapshots
but this one I wish I could tell you what the other things that are cool about it are but parrot won't tell me so
by the time this comes out later this year they're saying there are some
secrets that uh will make it even cooler
than it already is so I think that's
pretty much it for drones for us here at parot I do want to do a quick shout oh
okay okay they apparently they're going to bom bombard me with this thing
oh this is the Jumping Sumo and this one right here is actually a prototype now
we showed this before the first time they demoed it but the difference now is
that aside from being super lightweight super robust it's got a camera on the
front so you can spin it around in circles drive it around on your furniture all that kind of stuff now it
has some ruggedness improvement so the wheels are now they now have almost like
claws on them as they roll forward and they have added a spine to the back that
they're saying allows it to climb even stairs so it actually will be able to
keep from tipping backwards over on itself and climb upstairs so uh looking
forward to playing around with this one as well all right now I think we're done
with the uh with the drones here at the parrot Booth guys I do want to thank our
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