Yosmithy Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidingAgain Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Very cool how the development has taken place... Here's a user review on it... Still needs some figuring out through heavily wooded environment. I wonder if a next step in bike park trail development might be clearing flight paths for drones... They could become a rental item for park users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Yosmithy said: [original video] Thanks for sharing. The interview with the co-founder was quite interesting, but damn his speech patterns irritate me. What's the deal with constantly using rising intonation on declarative sentences? Stop it! Stop it now! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 50 minutes ago, Barry said: Thanks for sharing. The interview with the co-founder was quite interesting, but damn his speech patterns irritate me. What's the deal with constantly using rising intonation on declarative sentences? Stop it! Stop it now! Thanks for making the original video unwatchable?* (*Question mark only used to imply an upward inflection.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Two annoying Silicon Valley things there. First, the inflection is called "uptalk" and it is basically used as an exclamation point, but not just an exclamation point but a "and then you can't ask me a follow up" inflection. Think of it as a END STATEMENT that gets put at the end of every sentence. The second thing is starting sentences with "So,..." Equally annoying. Basically that starts the sentence off with a "Well, you stupid person..." Put them together and you have <well, idiot> <insert statement about the product> <AND IT ENDS HERE>. Plenty of examples in the valley of how these talking patterns have permeated management, my belief is that a lot of it has come from having to pitch VCs and ask for money. You need a way to not say "that was a dumb question" and also not let people dig too deep into the line of questioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-you-should-know/id278981407?i=1000355150231Good podcast on speech trends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 So, I gotta check that OUT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamsloan Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Back on topic... I've seen reviews of the skidio and it works amazingly well in relatively open woods at casual speeds. Take that thing to the scraggly woods we have here and try to do a hot lap and it gets confused very quickly. It won't crash, but that's because it'll just refuse to follow you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notyal Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 10 minutes ago, Teamsloan said: It won't crash, but that's because it'll just refuse to follow you. A drone after my own heart. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 16 minutes ago, Teamsloan said: Take that thing to the scraggly woods we have here and try to do a hot lap and it gets confused very quickly. It won't crash, but that's because it'll just refuse to follow you. It looks like it would be fine if it would follow low at 3-4 feet, like a cyclist with a go-pro. But it mostly appears to follow at 10+ feet. I wonder if default height is adjustable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yosmithy Posted December 10, 2019 Author Share Posted December 10, 2019 11 minutes ago, Barry said: It looks like it would be fine if it would follow low at 3-4 feet, like a cyclist with a go-pro. But it mostly appears to follow at 10+ feet. I wonder if default height is adjustable? Yeah, basically the same questions I have. I'm sure it won't be long until we see someone testing it that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamsloan Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 It looks like it would be fine if it would follow low at 3-4 feet, like a cyclist with a go-pro. But it mostly appears to follow at 10+ feet. I wonder if default height is adjustable?The review I saw the drone could do that but only slowly. Think walking pace. As soon as the rider went faster the drone couldn’t think fast enough and just stopped. The log loops at WC would be too much based on the real world test I saw. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Yeah, I would think that the processing capability of the drone would be way too limited to actually follow a rider, at speed, in a tree-lined area. Theoretically you would have enough processing capability if you bumped the data up to an HPC environment but bandwidth and latency would be a real issue, even with 5G. In my mind the short answer is that a "following" drone will work on a sunny trail but not really if there is ample shade. Unless it is some of that sweet California singletrack that is smooth and straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chongo Loco Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I could see it on a lot of front range or SW Colorado open country. Moab or Fruita/Grand junction techie stuff where you don’t want to fry trying to setup the perfect angle to film might be good too. You see those early one used in clear corridor bike park stuff. East and NW or in the scrub country that we have is tough. It would take some serious tech to process and would probably price it beyond the consumer or youtuber budget. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarneytx Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 The only "drone" i'd think capable of following a rider on most of our trails would be an FPS racing drone, with the person controlling it somewhere between start and end. I've seen a few videos, but even then they're still crashing into trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRider3141 Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 8 minutes ago, jcarneytx said: The only "drone" i'd think capable of following a rider on most of our trails would be an FPS racing drone, with the person controlling it somewhere between start and end. I've seen a few videos, but even then they're still crashing into trees. This was shot with a drone, at least partially. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamsloan Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Actually if you were able to do a preflight with the drone at a slower speed so that it could "learn" the area and store it to memory, then I could see it doing a pre-planned route that it knew how to move around in. It would still track your movement and give different vantage points as you ride, but it wouldn't have to be analyzing all that terrain data on the fly (pun intended). If they could make that work, it would be like an extremely complex cable cam. I bet it could then go pretty fast like the racing drones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamsloan Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Just now, RedRider3141 said: This was shot with a drone, at least partially. I love that video mostly because of the drone footage. It adds so much sensation of speed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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