awesome unbelievable drone video of bowling alley

[darkoshi]

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Video title: Right Up Our Alley
Posted by: jaybyrdfilms
Date posted:Mar 8, 2021


Also, wholesome, supportive, skeleton posters.

Both via andrewducker.

Comments

[petrea_mitchell]

The sort of video that leaves me wondering, "How many takes did they have to do to get that one perfect one?"

[darkoshi]

After I watched it, I thought the drone must be flying on automatic along a pre-programmed path that had been determined earlier at a slower speed. But after watching a couple of other videos discussing how it was made (including https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvkot4jGLWU), it sounds like the drone pilot was flying it manually in real time (wearing headgear to see the camera feed). They said it took 10 to 12 tries, but that's probably for the single take, and I'm guessing there were more practice runs and trying out different flight paths before that.

Now I'm imagining "video" games where drone pilots/players navigate their drones along a real obstacle course, and multi-player aerial dogfight games where the players fly their drones against each other, with virtual laser guns, with sensors on each drone to know when it's been "hit" and should drop out of the game.
Which, doing some searches now, already exist, of course! The future keeps happening while I'm busy doing other stuff. :)

[lhexan]

That's a cool way of advertising a space! The people, and particularly their conversations, felt a bit disingenuous though.

[darkoshi]

From what I read, the audio was overlaid afterwards as the drone itself is so loud. And yes, it's like a mini staged movie rather than actual conversation.

I didn't realize it as I haven't seen "The Big Lebowski", but some of the dialog was copied from that movie: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/drone-bowling-alley.html

The YouTube channel has several other videos which I haven't watched yet. The first two posted last April show St Paul and Minneapolis with the streets empty due to the pandemic. That was not long before George Floyd was killed, and before the subsequent protests. It makes me feel odd/uneasy/sad to watch, knowing that.