{"id":6625,"date":"2018-02-27T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T22:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2018-02-27T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T22:43:52","slug":"skydio-drone-promises-a-flim-crew-that-fits-in-a-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/skydio-drone-promises-a-flim-crew-that-fits-in-a-backpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydio AI drone promises &#8220;a flim crew that fits in a backpack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skydio.com\/\">Skydio<\/a>\u00a0boasts 13 cameras that power really impressive collision-avoidance tech, allowing it to track a person even through obstacles like woods. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsfkGlSajHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the \u201cAutonomy Engine\u201d works:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gh5pAT1o2V8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The device looks bulky, but it\u2019s said to fit into any backpack that can accommodate a 17-inch laptop. Being roughly\u00a03x the price ($2,499), size, and weight of a Mavic Air, the Skydio makes me ask a few questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s the average utilization of any drones people buy? They seem like action-sports cameras: aspirational, highly specialized, rarely used. (Thus it made perfect sense to me that GoPro would get into the drone business, and that doing so might just compound their existing problems.)<\/li>\n<li>How important is this kind of aerial selfie mode that really sets Skydio apart? That is, what percentage of the time one wants to use a drone is it for, say, mountain biking through the woods? The obvious concern is that it falls into a real niche (the small Venn diagram overlap of \u201cactually doing action sports\u201d and \u201cwanting to view from the air\u201d).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Having said all that, the AI capabilities look like a great step forward, and I\u2019m eager to learn more as the device starts reaching customers.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/NewImage-33.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"469\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gsfkGlSajHQ\">YouTube 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gh5pAT1o2V8\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skydio\u00a0boasts 13 cameras that power really impressive collision-avoidance tech, allowing it to track a person even through obstacles like woods. Check it out: Here\u2019s how the \u201cAutonomy Engine\u201d works: The device looks bulky, but it\u2019s said to fit into any backpack that can accommodate a 17-inch laptop. Being roughly\u00a03x the price ($2,499), size, and weight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6627,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}