Aerial live broadcast, 1 year ago

One year ago today, I did my first aerial live broadcast from a quadcopter, using a Phantom 2, GoPro, Lightbridge, and a computer broadcasting to Google Hangouts on Air over LTE.

 

.@djiglobal Phantom 2 w/Lightbridge and @Atomos_News Ninja Blade, recording 720p in ProRes, and live broadcast to Google Hangouts on Air.

A photo posted by Eric Cheng (@echeng) on Jul 20, 2014 at 7:58am PDT

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Here’s the live broadcast, archived on YouTube: >[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oXlOQnSqK4&w=640&h=360]

 

It’s amazing what happens in just 1 year. A year later, I went to Iceland twice to live broadcast flights over the volcano (including a trip for Good Morning America), and live broadcast from consumer drones is now commonplace (built into DJI Pilot app for Phantom 3 and Inspire 1!).