so DJI is entering the racing drone market we're going to talk about all the
details and a video coming up so let's skip the intro and get right into it so
the details of DJI first entering the racing drone market was first reported
by drone DJ and according to an FCC filing we can see a few of the
components that they've already filed for so those components include an air
unit which is basically a transmitter and receiver so it just sends and
receives a frequency and that's not actually a drone it could be part of a
drone or it can be used with other racing drones as well but that was the
first product by DJI in their FCC filing now the other two products that they
showed were a camera and and two antennas now usually with racing drones
you don't buy the racing drone by itself you build it with off-the-shelf parts or
you know you assemble it together you might buy certain components and then
you have to build it yourself so you could take a camera here and then you
could take other parts here and then put them together so having these different
parts DJI could sell their camera they can sell their antennas and they can
sell the air unit and people people could buy those individually and then
build their own racing drone so keep that in mind that we haven't yet seen a
racing drone perhaps DGI is keeping that a secret
so DJI is also gonna make racing goggles and a racing remote controller now
everything but a racing drone but people in the racing drone industry usually can
take different parts and make it work the big question I have which I'm going
to talk about later in this video is the latency and the frequency of the actual
transmitter the air unit is it fast enough it's got to be faster than akka c
2.0 and and all the other DJI drones because otherwise you won't be able to
race with it I'll talk about that later but first let's get into these other
products so the goggles are going to be something like fat shark because fat
shark is the industry leader for racing drone goggles and then the remote
controller is going to be about the size of p4 Pro
controller Fanta for pro controller nice and big and that's pretty typical for a
racing drone rather than a consumer drone because you need that big
controller to do all types of drone movements such as you know pitch roll
throttle yaw you need all those different components to race Jones I
myself am NOT an fpv drone racer but I have a lot of friends that do it I've
hung out with them while they've raised and they tell me all these things so I
have some knowledge of it I'm not an expert by any means if you are please
leave it in the comments below I'd love to hear your input so DJI made racing
drone goggles before it didn't really catch on I think the field of view
wasn't very good they also were kind of too big I think people didn't want to
carry around those big goggles so I think the size field of view really hurt
them but these new goggles will be similar size to Fatshark and I imagine
similar functionality to Fatshark so people in the racing drone industry will
feel comfortable wearing them I imagined sort of like when DJI came out with the
Osmo action had a lot of similar features the GoPro so it was new into
the action camera market but it made a product that was so similar to the GoPro
that people felt comfortable using it I think DJI is gonna do the same thing
with these racing drone components or products we still know like I said it is
gonna be a full racing drone it could be but maybe DJI wants to keep that a
secret until its launch date now my feeling is if DJI releases a drone a
racing drone fpv racing drone first person view racing drone it's gonna have
a lot of challenges that it hasn't had with a consumer drone
because racing drones are built from different parts and a lot of people
carry those parts with them or they have extra drones that they build so when
they crash them they usually have five or six other drones with them when
they're in a competition or racing so you just get another drone and keep
racing or if you're just doing it for fun with your friends or whatever you
can just have another drone so I don't know how DJI would do that in terms of
being able to have that drone built for the crash
and then having parts is it going to sell a bunch of parts and then it
usually has something called DJI Kerr refresh or insurance for its drone so
how would it deal with that or is there just no insurance at all those are all
questions I still have about DJI entering the drone racing market and one
more question I had is where can you fly these drones there are limitations for
where you can fly a consumer drone is it gonna have the same places same
locations that you're able to fly these racing drones because obviously they go
much faster they get fly between things are smaller and can do all these
different moves which for people who aren't really skilled they may buy these
because it's CGI may cause more accidents and and again I'm just
speculating I don't know for sure that's a fact but it's just one question I had
in terms of are we gonna DJ eye releases a racing drone or a lot of people gonna
buy a racing draw and then try to do is it going to sort of catch on and go
viral where everyone has racing drones and trying to do these cool moves and
they don't know how to do them and they're crafting in their drones in
places where there are people and cars and stuff like that
I don't know those questions still have to be answered now let's talk about the
air unit and DJI if it decides to build an actual racing drone now this
transmitter receiver this air unit has to have something like I said before
other than accusing because of the latency of flying okay when you're
flying your drone a consumer drone it flies forty or forty-five miles an hour
top speed maybe 50 miles an hour you can have a little bit of latency it's so my
new the I can barely see it it's milliseconds 10 milliseconds for a
racing drone is like forever it's a huge amount of time okay so the latency has
to be virtually nil or virtually nothing when you're racing a drone because you
want to see exactly what the drone is seeing in real time so you can do all
these cool moves and obstacle courses and not crash your drone especially when
you're flying close to 100 miles an hour or around 100 miles an hour if there's
any delay in time and you're doing these crazy move
you're gonna crash so the latency is a huge factor I imagine DGI is gonna come
out with something other than a key sink or like an updated version of aqua sink
if they don't I'm not sure is it I think it will be a flop I think this could be
like the racing drone goggles where it was a good idea but didn't really catch
on so I imagine DJI learned from their mistakes and learned and did some
investigation and research into the racing drone market and they obviously
know this so the latency I imagine would be competitive with everything else
that's out there so what that frequency will be called other than I could think
I don't know their light bridge that I could sink what are they gonna call this
one I don't know that's all I got for today guys hope you enjoyed this video
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