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- [Voiceover] We still have four minutes and
thirty seconds of flight time, safe flight time left.
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- [Voiceover] So we are at the NAB Show 2016.
We have Adam from DJI, right.
So one of the new things this year is the Phantom 4.
- Yes, this just came out,
the Phantom 4 came out in March.
It has raised the bar for every other
consumer drone on the market.
What's going on here is, you see in the front here,
there's a couple of eyes, those are cameras.
That enables obstacle avoidance, also allows this
to have some autonomous flight modes.
Other things that are going on here,
underneath we've got two more cameras,
along with the two ultrasonic sensors.
And of course you have an improved 4K camera on board.
Now, those five optical cameras here, the RGB cameras
are all slate to one central processor,
that deals only with analysis of the images.
So I mentioned before obstacle avoidance.
So now what's happening is,
if you're flying this straight at a wall
with obstacle avoidance on,
it will not go into the wall,
even if you throttle full forward.
- [Voiceover] Okay.
- And when you are in one of the two
autonomous flight modes, Tap Fly for example.
A lot of people just want to work the camera.
Now you can, tap on the screen in DJI Go app,
and this will just go and it allows you to
control the gimbal and the camera.
And are you worried about banging into something?
Well if something is in front of it,
it will sense it and it will avoid it.
It will either go over it or it will hover in front of it.
- [Voiceover] Okay.
- And then there is another mode here,
a very interesting mode.
You know that we had in previous drone models,
Phantom 3, for example.
- [Voiceover] Yes.
- We had Follow Me.
That was really following a signal, but here we--
- [Voiceover] But that was sort following the controller,
and stuff, right? - That's absolutely right.
Absolutely right, it was following a controller.
This has Active Track.
And Active Track, what this does is, these cameras see.
They create a 3D volumetric image of you.
And what they do is, they know that
you look a certain way when you're looking forward.
And then you look different when you turn
your head to the side in profile.
And when you are walking,
you look even different, more different.
But it knows it's, it still knows it's you.
And what will happen is, this will
lock on to you if you want it to.
And if someone else is operating the
drone for you with the rotor controller,
you can start walking and it will follow you.
It will try to keep in the center of the camera frame.
Very, very useful.
You want to do a media walk and talk,
very useful, very helpful.
- [Voiceover] If no one else is there,
will it still follow you?
So if you put the controller down on the table,
it still follows you right?
- It will still follow you, you know that I just--
- [Voiceover] But you can't, but no one's panning to
get the low view. - Right, right, right,
but I mean safety first.
You want to make sure that someone's always
like paying attention to controls.
- But these are autonomous flight modes,
the drone will do what it's programmed to do.
- [Voiceover] Okay, awesome.
So now you said that the obstacle avoidance
is in the front.
- It is.
- [Voiceover] Okay, so there's nothing in the back?
- Nothing in the back, nothing on top.
So if you are avoiding multiple obstacles,
obviously, the drone doesn't see anything above it.
You know there's one other thing I should mention
for some of your viewers.
This craft looks vastly different,
it's almost like artwork right?
It's a lot sleeker, and smoother and shinier
than previous Phantoms.
It's for a reason, this is a high performance craft.
And you know what we've done is,
it flies normally in about 16,
maximum speed of 16 meters per second.
In Sport Mode, which you can now activate
right from the remote controller,
it can go at 20 meters per second,
that's about 45 miles an hour.
You know how we do that?
- [Voiceover] Aerodynamic?
- That's it man, physics, physics exactly!
- [Voiceover] That's normal - Because--
- [Voiceover] heliplane. - That's it.
That's it, we go to the 45 degree angle,
and this thing just flies, it is really, really fun.
It takes you know, you'll have to pay attention
because braking and moving, and turning it around.
pitching and yawing, it's very responsive,
but it's really very fast.
So if you want to change direction,
it takes a little bit longer.
- [Voiceover] Okay, very cool.
So everything here is new?
So a guy that has a Phantom 3 let's say,
and wants to upgrade, he might as well
just sell everything right?
Are the rotors, are the blades,
for all, everything's new?
- Everything's new and you know what,
the rotors for example,
because you have those high speeds,
now you have the twist and lock props.
- [Voiceover] Okay, so yeah too many different systems.
Absolutely, battery, different battery here in the back.
You know, let's take a look at,
and do a little battery pull.
(clack)
It's still a four cell battery
but now it gets up to 28 minutes.
- [Voiceover] Right, looks like it's a little bit shorter.
- Shorter. - [Voiceover] Bigger battery.
- More capacity, yeah.
- [Voiceover] Okay.
(short clacks)
And the rotors themselves seems
to be a little bit higher,
so you are not getting the rotors
showing up its launch?
- No, well yes, that's exactly, that's the end result,
but they're not actually higher.
What we have is more of a slope
to the arm here, thinner arm.
And now you see, the motors are exposed,
better for your air cooling,
along with the vents that you have on the bottom.
- [Voiceover] That's way more of vents (mumbling).
- [Adam] I bet you've also noticed
that gray thing there right?
- [Voiceover] Yes.
- [Adam] That is a composite core.
A lot of the gimbal assembly
has now moved inside the craft.
- [Voiceover] Insider of that, right?
- [Adam] Yeah, because when you're flying at high speed,
you don't want that kind of drag,
you know what, that kind of stress
on the camera and the gimbal.
So here, the other thing that's going on in there
is that we have a lot of redundancy.
We have compass redundancy, IMU redundancy.
We have some vibration damping material in there.
It's just a much smoother experience.
And the craft itself, because of all the sensors,
it's five times more stable in a hover
than the Phantom 3 is.
- [Voiceover] Okay and so is that making it
a little bit tougher, you know since the gimbal's
not exposed in there?
- I would say yes, it makes it tougher.
It also makes it more stable.
You'll just notice the difference when you fly it.
It just, it really feels like a high performance craft.
- [Voiceover] Okay, great, now with this camera,
is this, this is a completely different camera?
- No this is a similar camera
but you do notice the differences,
for example-- - [Voiceover] It's completely.
- [Adam] It's been redesigned, but I mean
it has a better lens than the Phantom 3 camera.
Better corner sharpness, less distortion.
You have less chromatic aberration
than you had before.
And then with the biggest thing I would say is
this gimbal is now U-shaped.
So it's the difference between cradling something
with one hand and two hands.
That's the kind of stability you are getting.
- [Voiceover] Okay, so one last question
on the camera itself, the diameter here,
is that the same as the old one?
The reason why I'm asking if you have
filters and things like that--
- Yeah.
- [Voiceover] you can go to like, can you do that?
- You know I haven't actually tried.
I'm not sure, that's a very good question.
- [Voiceover] Oh okay.
- But let me get you in--
- [Voiceover] (mumbling) online so that we can find out
but that will be a good thing to know.
- But I mean we have some Phantom 3s on the table
that I'm really curious, let's take a look right now.
- [Voiceover] Okay, great, let's do that.
- Okay. - [Voiceover] Okay.
Okay Adam, so the question of whether or not we could
interchange filters et cetera from the 3 to the 4?
- Yes we just had a look.
It was a really good question.
Apart from the Phantom 3 standard, you can.
You have the same diameter, you can use the same
filters on Phantom 4 as you had on the Phantom 3.
Also if you are looking for the HDMI module,
it should work as well from your rotor controller,
you change the plate on the bottom
and you can also get the HDMI output as well.
- [Voiceover] Okay, great, thank you.
I'm looking forward to trying this out.
You said it's already released?
- It's out, it's out, it's $1399.
There's some bundles out there
with extra battery, two extra batteries,
a backpack, but it's, yeah.
- [Voiceover] One of the cool things I like
it comes with its own hard case.
- It does, yeah it comes with that new gray case.
A lot of people were talking about that.
- [Voiceover] Yeah, absolutely, do we have one here?
- They're all in the back, they're
all in the back room. - [Voiceover] Oh right, okay,
yeah but it comes with (mumbling)?
- Yeah.
- [Voiceover] Right, thanks a lot, I appreciate it.
- Thank you very much.
- [Voiceover] Thank you.