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Digital so we're here with DJI a brand I
actually hadn't heard of before but they are drawing a lot of attention here at
the show flying around their Phantom 2
Vision quadricopter this is a high performance quadricopter and of course
the obvious comparison is going to be drawn to the AR drone but it's a little
bit different from the AR drone so rather than using sonar to detect its height it actually
has a different sensor system to detect not only its height but also its
distance away from you which is allowing it to stay stable even in this crowded
Hall it also supports Wi-Fi controls
okay so that's similar as well as firsters view as well as taking video
and photos but the quality has been stepped up to correspond to the
increased price so it's around $1,200 but it can go as far as 300 M away from
the controller with the Wi-Fi extender that you see here on the controller you
control it in a more traditional hobbyist style so you move it kind of
back and forth up and down and I think they're about to take it away so what
I'm going to do is I'm going to cover a couple of the things on here so there's a motor controlled camera a battery
indicator and LEDs on the bottom of the unit that allow us to orient it go ahead
and take that away thank you very much the iPhone on the top of it can be used
to see it in firstperson View and it can also be used to control things like
camera settings like exposure for example to make sure that you get the
best footage that you possibly can this guy's got a GoPro Hero 3 mounted on it
so it's a little bit on the different side I'm just going to go ahead and give
you guys a bit of a better look at it here it makes actually all things
considered not a ton of noise but I wouldn't expect to be recording any
audio with uh the camera that's on this thing so the main objective here because
it's so expensive it's not necessarily for the Casual consumer but for RC
enthusiasts just over $1,000 might not seem that unreasonable for a remote
control vehicle especially one that includes a 1080p uh 14 megapixel camera
but then again guys there are all kinds of different customers in this world
some pros might want to use this but other Pros might want to step up to the
eight rotor s1000 this one they're not flying around in here but due to its
eight rotor design and carbon fiber
lightweight construction this guy can hold a Canon 5D including look at this
there's a gimbal on it as well for stabilized aerial footage and what's the
maximum range on this guy do you happen to know off the top of your head um it's
still actually under testing so we'll release that once we release the product
well there you go guys either way the booth is drawing a ton of attention here
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