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amichail
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Collaborative flying of real model planes
« on: May 19th, 2007, 1:20pm » |
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I wonder whether this would make an interesting web 2.0 startup.
The idea is to have collaborative flying of real model planes with video cameras onboard.
A computer would take over whenever the flight inputs become unreasonable/unsafe.
You could reward people with reasonable flight inputs by giving them more control over flight inputs.
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amichail
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Re: Collaborative flying of real model planes
« Reply #1 on: May 19th, 2007, 1:49pm » |
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Thinking about it some more, you could have a revenue sharing system where people who build model planes can let others fly them (perhaps collaboratively) through this service. They would get a share of the profits.
Moreover, the owners of such planes can take over flight inputs whenever they are not safe. It's their planes after all.
BTW, how easy is it to provide live video from a model plane?
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Re: Collaborative flying of real model planes
« Reply #2 on: May 21st, 2007, 1:52am » |
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I have seen a show on TV, where young swiss engineers do this as a hobby and now as a business to make videos from an RC plane. They pilot the plane via a VR helmet. They even can turn the head left and right, the camera will follow the movement. It seems the army is interested. So it is possible to transfer a video stream over radio a few 100 meters.
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