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by omarhegazy 4393 days ago
This with the Oculus Rift combined is going to make for some seriously awesome "tourism demos". Someone has to make a Bebop-as-a-service thing where you have warehouses full of Bebops across the world's largest tourist centers, then a paying user will have his/her Rift linked up with that Bebop, which will then fly high above the city's ground and let the tourist have a look at the city from the comfort of his/her home.
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Wouldn't make much sense combined with the Rift though, as the camera on the Bebop can't move. You could move the Bebop itself based on head motion, but i am not sure if that would give a good feel of control. Besides you would still be quite limited in wifi range and i doubt people want drones falling into the pools or on their heads ;)
The camera has a very wide handle so you can actually move the visible window by simply adjusting the software cropping. So you can actually track the head movements without moving the drone on a roughly 180degree angle in every direction.

There's only one camera though, so you don't have any stereoscopic effect.