As the consumer drone space heats up, one of its leaders, DJI, is already looking to the future.
The company unveiled a concept video on Tuesday showing off what it calls the Phantom X Concept, and the forward-looking drone looks pretty cool.
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Opting to focus less on futuristic design, the concept video instead highlights features the DJI wants to give to later versions of its drones.
Among those features are free-flight object tracking, multi-angle shooting and obstacle avoidance. The concept video also shows off how the multi-angle shooting would work on the Apple Watch.
And if you’re not sufficiently impressed by the concept device, the company also enlisted the services of a few notable people, who talk up the Phantom X as if it’s a real product. The drone lovers include Chloe Bennet from the television show Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., House of Cards producer Dana Brunetti as well as executives from Pinterest and Adobe.
Bennet is even shown using gloves with color-coded fingertips to decorate the sky with the concept device’s “sky paint” feature.
We’ve already seen drones that will follow you, allowing you to take ever more epic selfies, but the multi-cam and sky painting ideas are definitely features future consumer drones would do well to include.
It’s not clear how close any of this is to being available as real products, but the footage looks to be designed using computer-generated effects. DJI did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Update: A DJI spokesperson has confirmed that the video demonstration was created using special effects.
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