Company selling $900 drone equipped with AI camera wants to be your new family videographer
If you've ever worried about perfectly capturing your kids next big sporting event, PowerVision, an innovative purveyor of drone and AI technology, has some good news. A new product unveiled by the company at CES in Las Vegas called the Power Egg X, is a new breed of AI-powered camcorder that can be attached to a drone and follow a subject without any human intervention. PowerVision, which has made similar products - previously a larger 4.6 lbs drone-mounted camera - is being billed as multi-function device that can be used as an autonomous AI camera, that can be wielded handheld or via a high-flying drone. A demonstration from the company at CES (pictured above) showed the device's ability to track various kinds of motion including demonstrators doing yoga, swinging and playing basketball Though fixing a camera to a drone is anything but new, it's the technology PowerVision couples with its new system that separates it from the field. With the help of a proprietary algorithm, the PowerEgg X can use facial recognition, deep learning, and a tracking a 170 field of view to track subjects and ensure they're always be in the middle of the video frame, This ability, says the company, would be useful in situations where a subject is in relatively fast motion, like playing sports, dancing, or running.
Jan-9-2020, 07:39:11 GMT