Lady Gaga's Super Bowl High-Flyer Starred 300 Intel Drones

HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 05: Lady Gaga performs during the Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl 51 Halftime Show at NRG Stadium on February 5, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Lady Gaga seemed to kick off her energetic and decidedly aerodynamic halftime show at Super Bowl LI tonight perched atop NRG Stadium, with the lights of Houston--and then suddenly hundreds of synchronous, technicolor supernovas--glittering behind her. In fact, USA TODAY explains, the prima diva filmed the cold open to her show some days earlier with the help of 300 Intel Shooting Star drones and a game day flight plan that was a year and a half in the making. The cloud-capable quadcopters have been performing feats of unison since 2015 under the direction of Intel's drone division, and the Super Bowl spectacular demonstrated their capacity as "[a] way of merging art and technology," according to the human team. The group says live shows with drones could feasible be in the near future, too (including, but not limited to, the fireworks-based ones Disney is currently exploring). Especially so, according to Intel Drone's Natalie Cheung, as opinions toward having drones in our midst start to warm up.