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(click through for interactive spherical experience) Romeo Durscher (Visual Aerials), Lisa Lu and me at the public beach near the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. https://theta360.com/s/bvlXLSd0Eb7EsRy1EUWbO8FVY

Ryan Tong and I had a good time today checking out the latest prototype of the Avegant Glyph, using it as FPV goggles while flying the DJI Inspire 1. It is a brilliant display, and is shaping up to be a great product for its intended audience. I was one of the original Glyph Kickstarter ...

A few of us met up with Jim McAndrew of Auto Flight Logic last week for a demo of Autopilot Phantom, their new app for the Phantom 2 Vision+. We have been waiting for a long time for someone to use the Phantom SDK to develop an app to assist normal Phantom owners, so it’s ...

The man, the myth: Steve Doll, the creator of Hovership Zuul.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JsGggcQRTM?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Everyone who is interested in the DJI Inspire 1 should watch this Tested.com episode, which features Mythbuster Adam Savage and all the cool accessories he’s made for the quad! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Many folks have been asking how to carry an Inspire 1 without using a bulky case. Here’s a post from Facebook that shows a backpack that seems to work well. A quick search for “Airwheel Backpack” yields the official (Chinese) site that sells them for around $34, each. They are also available on eBay for $60. ...

Aerial timelapse from DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter. I shot in 4K for 8 minutes and sped it up by 30x in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014. The original footage was actuall quite stable, but I ran it through Warp Stabilizer, anyway, to make it even more stable. (Source: http://www.amazon.com/)

Here’s a screengrab from a video of Ferdinand Wolf and me flying DJI Inspire 1 quadcopters over the Holuhraun volcano eruption in Iceland for Good Morning America last week (broadcasting live from the Inspire 1 HD FPV feed). It looks so sci-fi fake! This was from a rehearsal flight the day before the broadcast.‪

Jeff Foster from Pro Video Coalition brought over a loaner DSLRPros Nighthawk Thermal Phantom 2 Aerial Kit, which is a DJI Phantom 2 that has been accessorized with a gimbal-stabilized thermal infrared camera. The high-end configuration was super slick and had dual FPV monitors, each configured with a digital video recorder. The basic aerial kit is ...