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Another Disney Drone patent - this time for projections
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Interesting they'd take this route. Projections need to be virtually stable from source to screen, as seen on windy nights at Fantasmic. A drone shifting even a few inches in the wind would at best make a fuzzy image, at worse no image.
WDI toyed with aerial projections onto smoke when planning Remember and then Forever, and each time decided the weather was too unpredictable. The new BTM finale is more controlled but is still hit and miss. Anything less than a rigid source and target will always produce random results.
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↩ replying to marni1971The projection source is built into the unit. It's rear projected onto the screen that wraps around the drone. If the screen is taught enough and the mountings inside rigid enough, it would fix a lot of the issues WDI tried in the past. I've seen this done for moving vehicles before.
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↩ replying to marni1971A solution to that problem could be a reactive gimbal system which corrects the angle and fixes it more precisely on it's target screen/object. Technically possible, though expensive to do, with a laser tagging system, precise & reliable servos and some cpu power on-board. (Plus the gimbal rig)
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↩ replying to BrianLoWow! That looks pretty cool.
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A poster on the disboards spotted drones above Epcot. Are they testing these already?
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↩ replying to RteetzWe just were at Epcot watching Illuminations. We were at the American Pavilion and were heard a bunch of what sounded like helicopters. I looked up and saw what I assumed were at least 3 or 4 helicopters hovering in back of the American and Italy pavilions. They were considerably loud and could be heard during the quieter parts of the show. You could see people turning around to see what the noise was. None of us thought that they were drones.
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↩ replying to flyerjabInteresting. The poster thought they were drones.
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↩ replying to AJH219A month ago there was a helicopter hovering over illuminations as well. Maybe it's filming something?
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↩ replying to Lands of WonderWell the subtitle these Illuminations replacement rumors have been using for years was called Sky Dance. Doing it as a Tapestry reboot mixing drone puppetry and the bag of tricks they've developed for World of Color and Rivers of Light could be spectacular.
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I saw a drone over fantasmic 2 weekends ago
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↩ replying to Pumbas NakasakThis will be an upcharge option ;)
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↩ replying to tissandtullyCould it be an Epcot specific end to Soarin' Over the World?
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↩ replying to djlaoscThey've been done with that film for a while now as far as I know.