{"id":6692,"date":"2016-04-05T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T09:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=277591"},"modified":"2016-04-06T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T09:09:38","slug":"what-happens-when-drones-and-people-sync-their-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/04\/05\/what-happens-when-drones-and-people-sync-their-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when drones and people sync their vision?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Multiple recon drones in the sky all suddenly aim their cameras at a person of interest on the ground, synced to what persons on the ground see &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That could be a reality soon, thanks to an agreement just announced by the mysterious <a href=\"http:\/\/sicdrone.com\/\" >SICdrone<\/a>, an unmanned aircraft system manufacturer, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdoptic.com\/\" >CrowdOptic<\/a>, an &#8220;interactive streaming platform that connects the world through smart devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_277656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-277656\" title=\"CrowdOptic cluster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/CrowdOptic-cluster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"225\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">A CrowdOptic &#8220;cluster&#8221; &#8212; multiple people focused on the same object.\u00a0 (credit: CrowdOptic)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CrowdOptic&#8217;s technology lets a &#8220;cluster&#8221; (multiple people or objects) point their cameras or smartphones at the same thing (say, at a concert or sporting event), with different views, allowing for group chat or sharing content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drone air control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For SICdrone, the idea is to use CrowdOptic tech to automatically orchestrate the drones&#8217; onboard cameras to track and capture multiple camera angles (and views) of a single point of interest.* Beyond that, this tech could provide vital flight-navigation systems to coordinate multiple drones without having them conflict (or crash), says CrowdOptic CEO Jon Fisher.<\/p>\n<p>This disruptive innovation might become essential (and mandated by law?) as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=8037720011\" >Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flirtey.com\/\" >Flirtey<\/a>, and others compete to dominate drone delivery. It could also possibly help with the growing concern about drone risk to airplanes.**<\/p>\n<p>Other current (and possible) users of CrowdOptics tech include first responders, news and sports reporting, advertising analytics (seeing what people focus on), linking up augmented-reality and VR headset users, and &#8220;social TV&#8221; (live attendees &#8212; using the Periscope app, for example &#8212; provide the most interesting video to people watching at home), Fisher explained to <em>KurzweilAI<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>* This uses several CrowdOptic patents (U.S. Patents 8,527,340, 9,020,832, and 9,264,474).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/drone-airplane-lax-close_us_56ed0e38e4b084c672205f5f\" >Drone Comes Within 200 Feet Of Passenger Jet Coming In To Land At LAX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple recon drones in the sky all suddenly aim their cameras at a person of interest on the ground, synced to what persons on the ground see &hellip; That could be a reality soon, thanks to an agreement just announced by the mysterious SICdrone, an unmanned aircraft system manufacturer, and CrowdOptic, an &ldquo;interactive streaming platform [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,476,43,808,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainmentnew-media","category-innovationentrepreneurship","category-news","category-social-networkingweb","category-vraugmented-realitycomputer-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}