Today, we are going to fly a big drone - the VR Drone.
This SIX wings bad boy can carry TWO Insta360 Pro2 or Insta360 Titan, top and bottom, stabilized with
a gimbal in the center of the drone.
It can capture immersive 3D 360 VR
videos without seeing the drone. As you see right here. No more sky replacement or losing stereo 3D
effects
I went up to Portland, Oregon, to test flight this machine and
interviewed the creators. Here is Lawrence Dennis. my name is lawrence dennis i'm the owner of aeti
i'm also a partner in vr drones and my job has been to basically build a drone that can fly vr
cameras where the drone will fly in a behavior that's ideal for what most pilots went out of
a drone and two we get footage that is not needing to be uh you know stabilized in post
um for either vibration and or movement of the camera it started out in the early
days in like 2010 with immersive media and we we got the bug for vr and drones then
and ever since then we've tried you know all kinds of different ways of mounting these cameras on
an aircraft that give us the resolution and the quality you know that's you know not going to
be just your simple off-the-shelf drone with a you know a small little you know vr camera stuck to it
hi i'm gavin um one of the founders of vr drones it's a collaboration of aerial companies and
cinematic virtual reality companies we're up here in the mount hood national forest
flying the vr drone and kind of testing it out and taking it for a spin so to speak and basically
it's a three axis in-air stabilized gimbal system an aerial system and it can take two cameras it
has a vertical pole that runs through the vr drone and we put a vr camera on the bottom of that pole
and at the top of the pole and then as the drone flies and banks the vertical pole stays vertical
and the vibration is minimal and then we're able to take those two vr cameras and combine them
this is huge as now for the first time ever we can introduce stabilized 3d 360 footage
in vr filmmaking in 8k high quality what's really advantageous about the vr drum specifically in its
design is that because it's balanced the drone doesn't actually have to fight with the weight
of vr cameras that are that are hanging balanced perfectly above and below it so we're able to get
longer flight times we're able to get smooth footage that has very very minimal vibration
this thing can fly through narrow channels in high wind as you see right here capture the massive
rock cliff in a very low angle which is impossible to capture if you only have one 3d camera hanging
in the bottom the 2d with friendly video is not enough to tell you how impressive this fly through
i will post the entire ak 360 video soon to show you this in vr so the vr drone sounds
amazing my goal is to find out can we fly by me not a professional pilot like lawrence or
gavin if i can fly this thing like an asian driver then heavy vr filmmakers can learn to fly it
driving car i should be very very careful when driving don't talk too much let's go later
so i just flowed the vr drone for the first time right there behind me with the two install twisted
pro 2 top and bottom on the ocean i have to say it's pretty nerve wracking for the first
time flying such an expensive drone myself but surprisingly the control is very smooth
with this professional controller right here uh it's not like flying a dji drone it's it's
more responsive more smooth even with a little wind in the ocean uh it still fly
really good so i think if you know how to fly a regular drone i think it would be pretty easy to
get your hands on for this drone as well as long as you do all the pre-flight track pre-production
make sure that everything is ready to go nothing is wrong the camera is rolling and synced together
and and flying the drone is the easiest part and i think that this is the only drone give us
very smooth 3d stereoscopic video in 8k high resolution and we can fly literally anywhere
you don't need to worry about removing the jungle where the jungle's gone already and we can even
film the seagull and film everything in close-up detail and that's pretty epic
today we are in the tillamook air museum and we just launched the vr drone the reason we
would recommend and the reason that i would use this drone over the over the traditional
methods that vr filmmakers use are a couple of reasons one is there's a lot of things that are
really nice about this drone in fact that one it has landing gear so you don't have to hand
launch you don't have to build one of those stands that you can rest the drone on so that
it can take off you don't have the pendulum effect flying a traditional drone with a camera hanging
underneath it those drones are built to have a standard sized gimbal underneath that's the way
that they're built that's the way that they're balanced whereas this drone was specifically
designed to carry dual payloads and then the other reason i think that this is really nice is
going back to the camera on top right this drone allows you to fly below tree levels
it allows you to fly low where you have things overhead because you're recording dual hemispheres
that are allowing you to have unobstructed views of what's above and what's below
and so if you've got a really interesting shot where you have tree cover over you
being able to clone that out normally just doesn't happen right it's a lot of work
and it's really difficult to do whereas this you can just fly it right you've got your camera above
a camera below and you've got really great footage coming from both cameras to utilize and just get
a better quality picture plus stability right um you don't have the issues with the vibration
and the movement of the cameras that you get with your traditional drone it's just a very
steady simple shot i hope you enjoyed this vr drone review and testing video
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