I just got into this hobby and I think it's safe to say it has alot of hindrances...as someone who knows nothing about RCs it was extremely difficult for me to even get into the air. Between flashing firmware to my radio and having to manually configure my vtx settings to connect with my goggles...it was a nightmare as someone who knew nothing and didnt have much help...that and when people see fpv racing 9/10 times they are seeing gopro footage and then you put goggles on and it's just an utter disappointment. Barrier to entry is too crazy, the sport is very expensive and the learning curve is pretty crazy, the analog video is a disappointment so I honestly cant see this sport blowing up anytime soon although I would like it to.
The arenas definitely need to be bigger. Hopefully eventually courses for these tournaments will be giant and allow for much more compelling races. I think this can become a huge sport if the drones get a little bigger as well.
Right I was thinking that too. The technology and this new sport is only in it's infancy. Looks like it will take off for there are good prize monies for the youthful players who need funds to participate and then sponsors will come about if there's increase in spectators to maybe profit from advertising. However, bigger, faster, and more powerful drones could be dangerous where spectators may then have to view from behind a wire fish net screen. Hopefully political and military interests are not to be the future big time sponsors to develop it to get into kids heads with all that propaganda military patriotic brainwash and other funky messages of falsehoods.
i'm honestly impressed by this, ive tried flying a drone before and could barely get it to land properly. must take a lot of practice and coordination to do this
Agreed. I am an FPV pilot myself, but I can only do freestyle. I can barely go through a simple race course on a sim without crashing lmao. I would only not crash if I go super slow
Astronauta collection is a series of sci fi books that described perfectly how "boring" the day to day life on the future Earth will be and this can perfectly be found there as a replacement of nowadays activities such Formula Uno may be.
I just had an awesome idea. They should put sensors at each obstacle so that the color of that obstacle changes to a different color. Some sick sound effects would also grab attention.
What an amazing thing that technology has allowed us to do and to be able to make a sport out of it. I think that they will come up with even greater types of competitions in the near future. It is a little tough for the spectators to watch and keep track of. Maybe future races with base competition on multiple capabilities of the drones, like a race through a small canyon, with placements of repeaters for the pilot to stay in contact with the drone and maybe a race to a high altitude where they have a ballon stationed to have to come within a certain proximity. I don’t know, maybe a competition for lifting capabilities. I love this stuff and just think it is amazing, I would love to get into this but I’m certain that my hand eye coordination isn’t up to speed to compete in this type of race.
This is wayyyyyyyyyyyy to futuristic for me. It's amazing, its what I thought 2050 might bring but 30 years earlier. Anyway, going back to my R.C. plane for now and flying high and slow. Maybe I could pull a loopdy loop on a good day!
I just started flying my DJI FPV as my first FPV drone. It’s great, but the camera had no glitches up to 1 kilometer. I have no idea how these people fly with so many glitches and unclear visual. It’s amazing and really cool. I feel like this is some Last Gunfighter pilot school or something.
They can be in seats too and are probably around the camera area. The sport is so new in it's infancy and the tech has much further development to go so it's still a small hobby special interest group of young people. That would be so cool to be young again among this generation into all that I thought as a kid to only be science fiction for we didn't have high tech yet when the original Nintendo was the so interesting I'd stay up all night. When you get older, the intriguing fascination factor is not so strong to play and play a video game nonstop despite something like the PS4 being like a science fiction dream come true where you might do it for 3 hours instead even if you have time. I don't think I could watch this on a cell phone, but would rather go see it or watch it on one of those huge $250 4K TV's widely available now for such a rock bottom price.
I wonder if there is a solution to the FPV latency issue. The quality is horrendous. Maybe each drone should be mandated to have an HD streaming camera for better playback during re-run shots. Even if the drone operators themselves get to look at static.
put plexie glass over the crowd like hokey but a lot more get the people in there protected obv and I really think this would be insanely popular especially with the tron esk theme plus the jumbotron switching between diffrent fov's
Needs to be made more fun for the watcher. Maybe change the track color depending on who's leading. More angles, better quality for the fps footage. It's an activity that definitely has potential for a following.
As amazing as these drone pilots are and the prize money at stake you cannot have a spectacle without people. It is like a NPC boring event. There needs to be spectators.
This is so cool to watch. You should work on developing an Oculus Quest sponsored game so you can drum up more interest. It will also train more pilots to be comfortable with FP flying
Most drone racing’s indoors because it creates a controlled environment+ it allows you to bypass most FAA laws. Y’all clearly don’t know much about the laws and reality’s behind drone racing.
I know this was a year ago, but you understand the difference between a one pound racing drone and a one ton racecar, yes? If a drone fails midflight because you choose your pit stops, then someone, somewhere, _might_ get a plastic shard to the eye, at worst. If a 200 mph metal race car filled with gasoline fails, people die.
@@incognitoburrito6020 What does that have to do with anything? Are you saying it's more dangerous to not do a pit stop? I'm not sure what you're even saying. Pit stops were heavily regulated because THEY were dangerous. The sport started out with the safer route of NO pit stops until intuitive people realized that if they could change the tires and gas in a certain amount of time they could actually finish a long race FASTER. So...
I'm surprised we don't have this televised with international teams and weaponized drones and dangerous courses. Like hot wheels world race meets death race with drones
To everyone here saying there should be spectators or making fun of them for no one being there watching... Google something like "drone workbench injury" or "drone prop injury". These things make insane power, and (speaking from personal experience here lol) the props WILL slice through skin like butter. I made a very stupid mistake at one point and tried to hand launch a race drone, cut my finger to the bone like it wasn't even there. So imagine with these guys awful fpv feeds having thousands of people within the line of fire of that kind of potential? Yeah people would get hurt at every race.
@@ramus9 I agree that goggles makes it easier but that's why it's called FPV anyway. But still, it's incredibly hard to control a drone in acro. This is next level.
They are used to it. Thier brain is able to ignore all the interference and pick out the details that they need in order to keep being oriented and fly thier quadrocopters. How the human brain can do that is still being researched.
This sport needs more attention.
Sport???? Lol
@@dougdavis8986 yes
@@dougdavis8986 yes sport moron, just like snooker shooting f1 racing and many others. handegg isnt the only sport.
@@dougdavis8986 what about esport?
I just got into this hobby and I think it's safe to say it has alot of hindrances...as someone who knows nothing about RCs it was extremely difficult for me to even get into the air. Between flashing firmware to my radio and having to manually configure my vtx settings to connect with my goggles...it was a nightmare as someone who knew nothing and didnt have much help...that and when people see fpv racing 9/10 times they are seeing gopro footage and then you put goggles on and it's just an utter disappointment. Barrier to entry is too crazy, the sport is very expensive and the learning curve is pretty crazy, the analog video is a disappointment so I honestly cant see this sport blowing up anytime soon although I would like it to.
Wow!!! I haven’t seen racing like this since the boonta eve classic, on Tatooine, in a galaxy far far away
Lol
Now that’s drone racing!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
**SW theme begins BLARING**
Yooo
POV: no I didn’t come from Mark Rober stop saying I did
Yeah me neither
@Se Google Nutzer same
lol shut da fuck up no one cares
:D
@@anndy6450
lol shut da fuck up no one cares
:D
No one:
The flies in my room
Yes
The arenas definitely need to be bigger. Hopefully eventually courses for these tournaments will be giant and allow for much more compelling races. I think this can become a huge sport if the drones get a little bigger as well.
Right I was thinking that too. The technology and this new sport is only in it's infancy. Looks like it will take off for there are good prize monies for the youthful players who need funds to participate and then sponsors will come about if there's increase in spectators to maybe profit from advertising. However, bigger, faster, and more powerful drones could be dangerous where spectators may then have to view from behind a wire fish net screen. Hopefully political and military interests are not to be the future big time sponsors to develop it to get into kids heads with all that propaganda military patriotic brainwash and other funky messages of falsehoods.
It’s small for the challenge though.
@@conureking7748 I'm thinking gas powered drones like those gas powered F16s
The crowd excitement is uncontrollable
Cryin 💀😭
Class 😂😂
i'm honestly impressed by this, ive tried flying a drone before and could barely get it to land properly. must take a lot of practice and coordination to do this
And engineering and fine tuning
Agreed. I am an FPV pilot myself, but I can only do freestyle. I can barely go through a simple race course on a sim without crashing lmao. I would only not crash if I go super slow
I agree, we need spectators if we want to get more people involved in the awesome world of drone racing!
we need a crowd
Pov: You were watching Mark Rober’s new video and came here to see what drone racing looks like
There is already a comment like this beforehand you so....
Comment stealer.
YOUR EXACTLY RIGHT
What a fuck
Ye lol
This looks like something that you would read in a sci-fi novel written years earlier, trying to predict the future.
Astronauta collection is a series of sci fi books that described perfectly how "boring" the day to day life on the future Earth will be and this can perfectly be found there as a replacement of nowadays activities such Formula Uno may be.
Or an anime series.
Someone said that drone racing "felt like F-Zero."
It's not an exact replication of the feel...but it is definitely as twitchy.
@@BrandonTatamiBakukin bro could you give me a link to where i could read it?
yoOo
What a shitty feed for the pilots. A huge downside to racing indoors. Hats off to the pilots tho
THEY NEED CLEARVIEW RECEIVERS
@@vonster22 They were, look at the tripods at the 0:51 second mark
I was thinkin the same thing, must take some skywalker like reflexes with feed the pilots get
Alan Pentland dji just came out with a new pfv system and it makes the pfv goggles clearer then the drone cam
DVR always looks worse than when you actually look to the goggles
I just had an awesome idea. They should put sensors at each obstacle so that the color of that obstacle changes to a different color. Some sick sound effects would also grab attention.
Badass idea!!
Pov: You're here from mark rober
LOL yup
How you know? jk 😆 yup
Stop calling me out
Yeah lmaao
I didn’t know this was a thing wtf this is dope
Awesome race! I love this type of racing events....
This is fascinating. I'd literally be cashing into everything if I tried this.
What an amazing thing that technology has allowed us to do and to be able to make a sport out of it. I think that they will come up with even greater types of competitions in the near future. It is a little tough for the spectators to watch and keep track of.
Maybe future races with base competition on multiple capabilities of the drones, like a race through a small canyon, with placements of repeaters for the pilot to stay in contact with the drone and maybe a race to a high altitude where they have a ballon stationed to have to come within a certain proximity. I don’t know, maybe a competition for lifting capabilities. I love this stuff and just think it is amazing, I would love to get into this but I’m certain that my hand eye coordination isn’t up to speed to compete in this type of race.
You thinking laser cannons? Because I was thinking laser cannons.
Q
This is wayyyyyyyyyyyy to futuristic for me. It's amazing, its what I thought 2050 might bring but 30 years earlier. Anyway, going back to my R.C. plane for now and flying high and slow. Maybe I could pull a loopdy loop on a good day!
they should make championships in abandoned buildings under construction. i think that would be more exciting to see
until the drone catch a ghost
@@kakyoindonut3213 *hits a ghost in the face full throttle
@@OmegaF77 *pass through it, the drone hits a wall, drone broken
@@kakyoindonut3213 hard to catch something that doesn't exists though.
@@carstenpoulsen7076 shut up take the joke
So cool, watching different colored dots moving around the screen for 20 mins
Not once in my life did I think the words drones and racing would come together like this
at 1:20 i'm seeing this surge protector to surge protector setup, what is this??
Only 25k?
Cool. I can imagine drones being used for future special fx scenes
I just started flying my DJI FPV as my first FPV drone. It’s great, but the camera had no glitches up to 1 kilometer. I have no idea how these people fly with so many glitches and unclear visual. It’s amazing and really cool. I feel like this is some Last Gunfighter pilot school or something.
I hope their video feed is better than what we were shown. Although if it actually looks like that then that makes it about 100 times more impressive.
So you’re telling me that flies entering my room can do this and dodge at the same time but they can’t fly through the same window?
Where’s the... spectators??
Where are you planning on putting them?:)
online
@@tivo552 *ding ding ding* - this looks boring as hell when watching in a view that isn't FPV/POV. It looks sick in FPV/POV.
They can be in seats too and are probably around the camera area. The sport is so new in it's infancy and the tech has much further development to go so it's still a small hobby special interest group of young people. That would be so cool to be young again among this generation into all that I thought as a kid to only be science fiction for we didn't have high tech yet when the original Nintendo was the so interesting I'd stay up all night. When you get older, the intriguing fascination factor is not so strong to play and play a video game nonstop despite something like the PS4 being like a science fiction dream come true where you might do it for 3 hours instead even if you have time. I don't think I could watch this on a cell phone, but would rather go see it or watch it on one of those huge $250 4K TV's widely available now for such a rock bottom price.
"Where is the spectators"?
But yeah, they`re at home I guess, watching online, like us..
This is awesome & terrifying at the same time
I wonder how they can see properly when the screen seems to be glitchy like that.
Gotta go back n finish the Mark Rober field goal video
Is it empty for safety or covid
Too early for covid times. Most likely safety
Thanks mark
I wonder if there is a solution to the FPV latency issue. The quality is horrendous. Maybe each drone should be mandated to have an HD streaming camera for better playback during re-run shots. Even if the drone operators themselves get to look at static.
yayy watch little dots fly around for 20 minutes yess
Love these so much
these videos are fascinating
Mi domando come si orienti con la prua che cambi ad ogni curva così velocemente🤔
Damn who won?
Had no idea the video and lag were so bad. amazing to even keep them in the same room.
what's up with those drone cameras? if someone could explain why the spectator cameras in the drones are so terrible
Wow just Amazing
I wanna know the approximate length of the course, I wanna get average mph per lap
had no idea drones were this quick now, awesome
You should see the ones that record drag races and other cinematic events.
put plexie glass over the crowd like hokey but a lot more get the people in there protected obv and I really think this would be insanely popular especially with the tron esk theme plus the jumbotron switching between diffrent fov's
I didn't think I'd ever find drone racing to be rad...but it's rad.
Holly Molly wtf that cameras on drone fpv we are in 2018/2019 bad quality 2:05
This is like live-action gameplay of the old WipeOut racing games
Why use radio cameras here whenever you could easily use IP cameras? 🤔
what a turn out
Needs to be made more fun for the watcher. Maybe change the track color depending on who's leading. More angles, better quality for the fps footage. It's an activity that definitely has potential for a following.
There are 2 types of people: peopke who are here because of mark rober
People who are here because of judgment.
Hello drones are what I’m into now just started I think it’s cool but how can I get into the league
Are the racers using VR headset connected to a camera that is attached on the drone?
That would be epic
Is that how poor the pilots vision is?? Where they showed the POV of the drone?
wher can we see this in California?
As amazing as these drone pilots are and the prize money at stake you cannot have a spectacle without people. It is like a NPC boring event. There needs to be spectators.
it's too dangerous as the drones can seriously injure people.
@@threadoor1890 You mean like a baseball? Glad, that no one go to baseball games. ;)
@@Jumboy3 NASCAR or hockey come to mind. You can solve anything with a well placed net.
@@DV7Dave It can help, yeah. :)
They have hundreds of spectators in the vip area due to safety of the folks who would likely be hit by a plane..... Dumbass
This is so cool to watch. You should work on developing an Oculus Quest sponsored game so you can drum up more interest. It will also train more pilots to be comfortable with FP flying
Came from Mark Rober i never knew this was a thing, this is awesome
What type of drones are these and do they take gas. Something going that fast would drain through electric quick
Cant wait to get muh hands on one of these
What if exper for having spectators we have spectators wear the same head set of the racers and see it frim there view
Why are the POV shots to lo-fi? I wanna see more pov at 1080p
fun race but the video quality in the head set looks terrible
I have no idea whats happening but it is fun to watch
Wow, what amazing skills they have
Wow tech has gone a long way. Can’t wait for what we’ll be doing as a species in ten years.
Damn we said the same thing 50 yrs ago :/
Well this aged poorly
marvin polanco And we went to the moon in that time and now we have like 5 rocket launches a month sometimes.
how fast these things go
How much do they cost anyone 🤔
Question. Is the video they see as blury and distorted as what we see when they sho the FPV view?
How would the dji fpv perform here?
I feel bad for those pilot's eyes about the feed, it shouldn't have been done indoors, it could be fine but it's so dimly lit. Props for the pilots.
Ya it's bad lol
Most drone racing’s indoors because it creates a controlled environment+ it allows you to bypass most FAA laws. Y’all clearly don’t know much about the laws and reality’s behind drone racing.
@@conureking7748 faa laws only apply near airports and above 1,000 feet afaik
mdstmouse7 That... is very, very wrong... particularly if your drones in a higher weight class.
@@conureking7748 well wtf are they then
5:57 HOLEY MOLE is that how the FPV looks for the pilots?? looks like a 90s tv set
Yeah, that's what they race with. It often has less break up though.
I would have liked to see the postgame stuff
Chris Morey check the entire playlist. It has about a dozen or more videos including a 1/2 hour NBC special.
THIS is how you do pit stops... no mandatory just make it so the racers have to decide what the best strategy is and how many they should do.
I know this was a year ago, but you understand the difference between a one pound racing drone and a one ton racecar, yes? If a drone fails midflight because you choose your pit stops, then someone, somewhere, _might_ get a plastic shard to the eye, at worst. If a 200 mph metal race car filled with gasoline fails, people die.
@@incognitoburrito6020 What does that have to do with anything?
Are you saying it's more dangerous to not do a pit stop? I'm not sure what you're even saying.
Pit stops were heavily regulated because THEY were dangerous. The sport started out with the safer route of NO pit stops until intuitive people realized that if they could change the tires and gas in a certain amount of time they could actually finish a long race FASTER.
So...
Where are the FPV Feeds?
I'm surprised we don't have this televised with international teams and weaponized drones and dangerous courses. Like hot wheels world race meets death race with drones
How do they fly drones when their video quality is that bad?
Does anybody know what brand those drones are? What are they worth? $199
Is their view also that sketchy??
This is gonna be huge
Maybe add a chase quad overhead just to change the angle ever now and then. This is awesome racing!
I could see this developing
Wow, I never saw anything like this before!!! Neat!!!
They really need to work on the onboard drone cams, feedback looks like an old TV with bad reception on acid.
It's low latency. There are HD fpv systems now, but they take up more of the bandwidth, so less pilots can fly at a time.
That whole venue is empty was this during covid or does nobody come to these things
not that makes a huge difference but it's a bit disappointing that the official scores weren't listed at the end.
I have no idea who Mark Rober is,
Just curious if there was drone racing.
Can someone explain how the referees make sure that racers don't miss/skip any of the obstacles?
They watch the video feeds and see if they fly the track right
To everyone here saying there should be spectators or making fun of them for no one being there watching... Google something like "drone workbench injury" or "drone prop injury". These things make insane power, and (speaking from personal experience here lol) the props WILL slice through skin like butter. I made a very stupid mistake at one point and tried to hand launch a race drone, cut my finger to the bone like it wasn't even there. So imagine with these guys awful fpv feeds having thousands of people within the line of fire of that kind of potential? Yeah people would get hurt at every race.
Hey you prob got this from Mark Rober
No electric inspector available huh
Why is it empty
Knowing how to fly a drone like this is amazing by itself
Goggles.
@@ramus9 so?
@@jc-px8ox Makes it easier. Try to fly a quad without the goggles and see how well you’ll do.
@@ramus9 I agree that goggles makes it easier but that's why it's called FPV anyway. But still, it's incredibly hard to control a drone in acro. This is next level.
How do they see with those cameras? I cant see anything
They are used to it. Thier brain is able to ignore all the interference and pick out the details that they need in order to keep being oriented and fly thier quadrocopters. How the human brain can do that is still being researched.
I think drone wars would be more exciting...like robot arena...arm drones with guns flame throwers etc
super
So it’s NASCAR but with drones
interesting
move clockwhy
video from camera on board sux. nobody use the dji digital?
Mango This race was over a year ago. The DJI tech was not available yet. It’s a game changer.
Looks fun
This is not tv compatible