Parrot's Bebop Drone With Better Video, Longer Range, and Oculus Rift Support

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Parrot Bebop is focusing very heavily on incredibly awesome, feature-rich video, as evidenced by the gigantic, 14-megapixel camera with fish-eye lens attached to the front part of the drone

nd here's what is interesting about this big camera: the sensor has a field of view of 180 degrees, but when it sends video to the user's phone or tablet, it uses only a smaller subset of the available pixels. In other words, the drone streams video by subsetting a 1920 x 1080 pixel rectangle (about 2 megapixels worth) out of the 14 megapixels that the sensor covers. Why does it do that? To be able to perform two neat tricks:

Digital image stabilization: the drone uses a 3-axis accelerometer, a 3-axis gyroscope, and a 3-axis magnetometer to digitally compensate for movement. If there's some turbulence and the drone rolls a bit, it will adjust the video to compensate, taking advantage of all of the extra pixels that the sensor has available. We saw a demo of this, and it works for both small vibrations and giant movements, including putting the entire drone over through a 360 degree roll while it keeps giving you a stable, right-side up video. It's very impressive, and all done onboard with an integrated GPU.

Digital panning: the drone's camera is fixed, meaning that ordinarily, to look up and down or size to side, you'd have to yaw or tilt the entire drone. Instead, you can pan and tilt the video by just changing the area of the sensor that's being used, such that you can look almost completely up or down or side to side (within 180 degrees) just using the sensor, without the drone moving at all.

In addition to the digital image stabilization, Bebop's camera is completely isolated from the frame and the motors by anti-vibration bumpers, which are the orange things in the image below. The bottom of the drone also gives a good look at the four 2.4/5 GHz ceramic Wi-Fi antennas, the ultrasonic altitude sensor, and the little downward-pointing camera that uses optic flow for stabilization and speed estimation.

The Parrot Skycontroller is essentially a big tablet dock with a dedicated drone interface. Those are honest-to-goodness R/C-style analog control sticks (YAY!) along with a ludicrously powerful 36dBm a/b/g/n/ac directional MIMO quad Wi-Fi antenna that can talk to your drone (and stream video from it) from up to two kilometers away. Oh, and it runs on the same battery pack as the drone does, which is a nice touch.

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