hey guys I'm welcome testing I'm here to have a shop with Eric Chang it's been
here before here hello you're here for DJI today and you're showing us the new
inspire one which is the new quad that you guys announced a couple days ago on
Treasure Island that's right yeah let's just run down speeds and feeds to start
because there's a lot of stuff that's happened this is a higher-end quad than
the Panavision - is you know more professional use right that's the goal
yeah this is a higher-end quad it's sort of all of the technologies we've
developed either a standalone products or as part of older products rolled into
a flagship so this is a design for higher-end you see their high-end hobby
use or professional use in some cases there's a ton of stuff that happens here
the first thing and we're not going to show it now is we're inside we could but
it's a transformer yeah when you take off with it these they're sort of like
wings and they come up into a v-shape and that drops the body and the camera
below and in the landing structure for full unobstructed view kind of like a
Klingon bird-of-prey right so the wings come up and then the camera game has a
full 360-degree turn on the gimbal so you can see everything all around you
right that's right so the camera can turn 360 degrees it also drops the
center of gravity below the props it's a little bit more stable that way oh that
I didn't realize that and and it's because it's bigger it's a bigger quad
in general bigger propeller is more weight but it's close to three kilograms
yeah just under three kilograms so that's just just over twice the weight
of a Phantom series the processor 13 inches as opposed to nine and the whole
the propulsion system is a lot more powerful
so our battery is a six cell battery it's running 22 volts so that's twice
the voltage of the old phantom so there's a ton of lift in this thing then
that means you're gonna be able to go faster and go higher and yeah absolutely
so it's it's it's overpowered for most situations which means that it can very
easily tackle their complex environments you know like strong wind or gusts or
flying over volcano maybe two volcanoes okay um what else has changed to the
camera it's a new camera new gimble's can you tell me a little
about the camera yeah the camera it's 4k camera it's still a fairly small sensor
one over 2.3 inch sensor and it's mounted on a 3 axis gimbal here as you
can see it's totally stable so we shoot at 4k
35 second or 24 and 25 or 1080p at 60 it's also a 12 megapixel stills camera
it shoots an Adobe DNG RAW our photographers always want that it's a 94
degree rectilinear wide-angle lens so what's is what is regularly range so if
you look at a lot of the footage that comes from either the division or our
platforms that are flying other cameras like Oprah's you'll see a lot of
distortion so as soon as the camera tilts down the world kind of becomes
curved and quite aggressively so there's a ton of distortion most of us who do a
lot of video remove that distortion in post which is time consuming and not
ideal so this will have more or less straight horizons and it's a more
natural look so this would be sort of something more suitable for Sandra's
ography um you guys changed some stuff to make it a little bit easier to fly
takeoff and landing and then also give you better control at low altitudes kind
of where GPS doesn't have fine enough to jail right or when you don't have any
GPS signal so for example inside here or under forest canopy and something like
that you would typically lose GPS and what would happen in something like the
Phantom is that when you lose GPS they're still stable but they might
drift around so then no longer has position hold and so what we have an
inspire one is this stabilization package on the bottom you can see there
are three sensors here this is an optical flow based stabilization it's
actually a combination of optical flow and ultrasonic or sonar so we we can
measure the distance to the ground without relying on a GPS signal or
barometer and we can also measure the rate of change so you know as the ground
as the aircraft moves around the ground is moving and this sensor tells us in
what direction and how fast so when you have when when the when the drone comes
in lands automatically whether it's lost signal or the batteries in your
controller died or whatever it's not going to do the thing where it slams
down really hard because it thought it was three feet higher than it was or or
whatever yeah we used to do I mean all these used to land basically by by
descending slowly until they stopped descending so they're not aware of
what's below them but we know exactly how far away the ground is and we know
what direction the grounds moving so one thing that's really great with this and
we can we can demo it later if we fly but you can hover it right above the
ground and anyone who flies these things knows that
you basically can never hover it right above the ground because of ground
effects you're gonna you're going to crash yeah yeah it's gonna it's going to
shift around a lot even if the GPS trying to keep it in the same place
you'll see it sort of move around so with this new sensor you it's totally
rock-solid in position holes so one of the things when you were giving us the
demo over on Treasure Island before event a little bit and you were flying
with one of the landing skids on the dance floor just kind of skating in
figure eight and that's something I mean I'm sure somebody could do that with it
with the Phantom two but I I couldn't and I would have crashed immediately had
I tried something like that so I thought I was really cool um the optical sensor
kind of makes it like the world's it works similar to an to an optical mouse
right yes that's right that same kind of deep same time deal okay what's the the
flight time with the with the battery that you haven't it's 18 minutes okay so
it's a little bit less than the Phantom series and that seems to be sort of the
the sweet spot right now for for larger quads like this I mean I'm sure if
you're talking people who are doing like establishing aerial shots and stuff like
that they don't need to hour linger time for that they need a good five minutes
and then enough times it to a couple times right yeah most people who have a
goal in mind when flying tend to find 10 to 15 minutes to be enough for a
specific shot um battery is removable the battery is movable it just pulls
straight up out of the body and then in charge time for the battery it's a
bigger battery so it'll take a little longer right it'll take longer but our
charger is more powerful so it's running just over an hour if you deplete the
battery completely and and you guys have the logic the charging logic is in the
battery not in the charger still right and not only charging logic but
monitoring logic so now on from the app you can look at the the quality the
status of each cell and that the health of each cell so that you get more
information about the battery it also counts charge cycles now so you can you
can automatically sort of or you can swap batteries out after they've been
used a certain number of times and it counts charge cycles in the battery not
on the app that's right in the belly oh that's great so no surprises with
batteries which is seem surprising yeah um can we talk about the controller
because a lot like it seems like a lot of work has been done here yes the
controller has been completely redesigned now this is a prototype
controller the new one doesn't quite look like it's similar but the new ones
it's white and this iPad holder is totally different okay
so the controller is great because it incorporates a lot of physical physical
controls buttons and dials for camera control which you used to have to do
with your fingers or with tilt on the app in a lot of cases right tilting the
app or or if you wanted to hack in your own potentiometer which is something
that that I did with early phantoms you could have a dial on the back okay but
there was some do-it-yourself required and we eventually shipped a lever that
controls the gimbal but that's the only control we give you so you sort of start
shooting video you keep shooting or you have to basically you have to take your
hands off the radio to access the camera which is a bad thing or not desire it
always yeah it can't be a bad thing I mean if you're shooting stills it's not
such a big deal but if you're if you're shooting a video and you need to do a
complex camera control like you're tilting while you're moving up and
spiraling around a tower um it's really hard to do that before especially with
one person especially the one person yeah so we have a start and stop video
we have a stills like I take a picture button we have a playback button and
then we have two dials one of which pitches the camera up and down and the
other lets you cycle through and change camera settings so exposure control ISO
and shutter speed like your control setting on a DSLR or mirrorless camera
something like that yeah that's right like a toggle may toggles and changes
are these programmable can we change them to whatever we want to use or they
lock at that for right now the camera controls I believe are locked at that
now this could change because we have quite a bit of remote control
customisation that's possible just through the iPad app so those of you who
have been in RC for a while know that normally there's they're very complex
menus or get to plug it into a some kind of application on computer but in this
case you can just configure it all here so you can map channels switch modes
these are sort of advanced settings that most people would never need to touch
but if you do need to that's there for you one of the other things that I
noticed you did is you pulled the range extender and a lot of the external stuff
that maybe wasn't even in the phantom and it's all built into the remote now
for the controller yeah so one of the fundamental things we did is we
integrated light bridge light bridge is a high definition wireless transmission
system it's something that we sell as a standalone product for fourteen hundred
dollars so you can you can transmit either 720p or 1080p
great distances and also get metadata and can aircraft control we have 16
radio control channels on it and also an analog video signal so it's just
basically a data transport so we have now made that the primary way that the
radio is control talk to there so it's no longer a boosted up Wi-Fi signal you
know it's it's light bridge now it's like very dry it's no longer on Wi-Fi so
you can see we're connected not through Wi-Fi anymore
but through a USB cable through the lightning lightning port and so what
that means is on our on our controller here we have USB and we also have a we
have HDMI out so not only can you connect an iPad or an iPhone or an
Android device but any HD monitor that has an HDMI input that sounds great and
and one of the things I was excited about is you know previously you had to
choose between a video signal out that had telemetry or a clean video signal
diecutting use for footage or capture or whatever you can control that on each
and output now sort of so you on from a single radio you can only output video
to one device so HDMI or USB okay if you have both attached you get a clean video
signal on HDMI and you have all the all the metadata and control on the put
notation on the i/o no video but what we do have is dual operator support now so
with a second identical remote control you can have an operator just dealing
with the camera so triggering it I'm trolling the gimbal in more than one
direction not just pitch but also yaw the full 36 the full 360 so you can have
a pilot just worrying about the position in the camera and then the camera
operator is controlling the camera and from there you can have you can use
either one of the ports for output so what we did at the event that the launch
event was we had a second a slave unit at the at the mixing board and we just
have the HDMI output going to the board and then the pilot was roaming around
flying okay so that's how we were getting the live HD live 1080p video off
of the quad what was blowing around above us that's exactly right and very
cool and it didn't you know they were stock units we didn't do anything to
them and so you know I've been hacking these kind of HD wireless solutions for
the last few months because I've been doing live streaming from Burning Man
and the volcano thing we wanted to record HD locally just in case we lost
the aircraft right so these were all sort of built using D
products kind of glued together and they all work but it didn't take a lot of
testing to make that work and configuration whereas now it's just it's
just this is off the shell right on the off-the-shelf um the other thing you
guys announced at that event was first kind of SDK and api's to let people
access you know write software that takes advantage of the hardware that you
guys build yes and this is super exciting for us because we are reached
out to by industry you know virtually every I would say every minute you know
we get an email from somebody who has an idea about how a camera in space could
be interesting for them so some of the industries are really obvious like
farming construction search-and-rescue right things like that are really real
estate real estate requires no modification to the equipment to work
right now and but we haven't written any specific apps for those industries and
so what we're doing now is allowing people in those industries or service
providers to write their own applications to control the Phantom
series so this would be phantom 2 vision and phantom 2 Vision+ ok are the
aircraft that have Wi-Fi signals coming to mobile devices so you can write a
mobile app for Android or iOS and control the the aircraft you can control
the phantom control it's camera and and basically tell to do whatever you love
the mazing sweet so it me that that should open a lot of possibilities for
yeah like you said search-and-rescue is an obvious choice where people in setup
on autonomous search grids send the quads out bring them back in for battery
changes and send more out with right thermal-imaging cameras or whatever
which areas have been done and right how long ago and um also disaster disaster
recovery one of the things the pics 4d folks have done meta 3d maps of places
where there been mudslides and stuff like that I know and and that seems like
it's a incredibly valuable tool there's a couple of different levels to the SD
to the to the developer agreement right yes so there's there's different kind of
levels of access that people can get can you can you talk a little bit about that
and how that works for people who want to build apps for the pods so pretty
much anyone can download what we're calling level 1 it's a very creative
name I know but level 1 SDK which is basically read-only access except for
camera so you cannot control where your phantom goes
so you flight you still fly it around manual
but you can control the camera so you can tell the camera when to take
pictures you know one of these one of the things that people that immediately
was say distance trigger so take a picture every 10 meters you know this is
very standard for survey we didn't support it but now someone else can
support it and then they can take all those pictures and upload them to the
cloud for example their automated reconstruction so that's level one and
you have access to control the camera but you can also read what's not been
written to the memory card so in the US there's USB mode and you can just pull
images and video and you also get read access to like GPS coordinates and
accelerometer and gyroscope and that kind of stuff yeah it's a full telemetry
access including live stream of video so lower lower quality animal analog video
you get so that's level 1 level 2 access requires an application so this is now
and you're entering a partnership with DJI and these are these are still these
are currently negotiated under one to one basis so we don't have kind of
standards drive a standard partnerships agreement because if you're an
independent developer who wants to write something that's in the conservation
space or something it's probably going to be pretty easy to work with DJ on
that but if you're you know a multi global multinational organization with a
very specific business goal and you're charging a lot we're going to have a
different agreement ok so that's that's how it works now in that you have full
control over the phantom using using level 2 SDK meaning you can you can tell
it where to fly you can upload and download waypoints you can automatically
take off and land so full control basically the the vision the current
vision app that you have on the iPhone or SD or the Android devices can be
written with SDK level 2 okay so yeah so your when you say everything you really
mean everything you're kind of achieving parity with a lot of the open-source
flight controllers once people reach the level they're going to get it get enter
in a write developer agreement with you well I would say we're reaching parity
and non research situations you know so if your goal is to replace the
positioning system you're not gonna be able to do that with ours because you
can't get in that inner loop in the code okay so you know we're sort of we're
opening up the useful parts for the vast majority of people doing research or
using these for commercial purposes most researchers tend to want lower level
access so something that's open source is probably more appropriate okay I'm
super stoked to go out and fly the new quad I think the API stuff
is going to be really important in the long term and we can't even imagine what
people are going to use it for right now but can we take it out for a test plane
yeah let's do it okay great thank Sarah for bringing out
the inspire to show us you know how it flies and give us the rundown I can't we
put my hands on one of these yeah oh gosh - later
well we'll be back with more untested soon so you guys later
see you bye yeah the zoom back that ready no that's the wrong way
oh you want what which way do you want it I don't I don't want to go back I
don't want to do kappa hit Joey okay we want to package a plea yeah we'll go up
and are you able to control the gimbal whoa that's amazing no way my quad
that's great that's amazing