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Location
Davidsonville, MD
About Me:
Chief Design Engineer at Thanics Robotics
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I love designing electronics and mechanical parts on things that fly.
Hometown:
Davidsonville
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"Well, the in between is that you want both. You want to be able to have a non-realtime 360 experience later, while also having a realtime 360 experience while flying. It is inefficient to strap on a 360 camera and have a gimbaled regular camera.…"
"We are integrating already made real-time 360 stitching cameras like the Ricoh Theta V, and adding the long range, high power live streaming capability for the pilot (for VR-like FPV)."
"So when you look at your flight after you've recorded your GIMBAL headtracked flight, all you see in the replay is where you were looking during the flight. When you replay your 360 camera flight, you can look in any direction, no matter where you…"
"That kind of 360 is not what we are talking about, we are talking about simultaneous spherical video capture. Being able to capture a simultaneous spherical experience of your flight, and even live stream it to the pilot as FPV, it's pretty much a…"
"Chris, I definitely agree that this is an ambitious project, but I'm interested to know if you think it is a useful endeavor, and why 360 photography on drones (especially consumer drones) has seemed to be overlooked in the market. There are few in…"
"Wow, thanks for your reply Chris! We're definitely leveraging other open source projects in our project's creation. As for Skydio, their approach is different to ours. Since our drone has a 360 camera, it doesn't matter which way the drone is facing…"
Hi, this is my first time posting in the DIY Drones forum, but I have been a previous user of Ardupilot based drones.I've been working on an open source project called the Thanics Halo drone, and I'm looking to see if electronics/drone/programming…
