AV Magazine: US drone show company Sky Elements has set two Guinness World Records titles during seven large-scale drone shows over three consecutive nights in Blue Ridge, Texas.
Together with Damoda America, the company launched 71,207 drones in one week, the most ever recorded, including an 11,000-drone performance, the largest drone show ever flown in America.
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Trying to fathom the sheer amount of drones that were flown is really crazy. The crew had to account for each one and make sure they were ready to work the next night. I can only imagine how long that took having to charge and check over 10,000 drones. I really hope that the crew was large in numbers, because a small crew trying to deal with that many drones would be a horrible experience for everyone involved. Overall, I am a pretty big fan of drone shows, despite not having seen one in person before. Particularly, I prefer them to fireworks because of the lesser environmental impacts. Drones don't create clouds of smoke, and they are much quieter than the loud booms of fireworks. Plus, they are able to make specific shapes and create images in the sky, which is something that is extremely hard for fireworks to do.
I’ve never seen a real drone show in person, but I’ve followed the progressing complexity and grandeur of drone shows over the past few years. It seems they’ve gone from a few hundred drones a show to now 10,000+ in only a few years, though I’m not surprised by their growing popularity. Serving as an alternative to fireworks, drones can produce higher quality and more precise presentations while also being far more environmentally friendly and sustainable, being electrically powered and emitting reduced noise that is. And, as an upcoming industry, drone shows create a new corner in the market to be invested in and capitalized on, and when developed will provide more jobs which need to be filled, many of which could be filled by technical theatre professionals who will service the drones and accompanying equipment, run and call the shows live, and coordinate the transportation of show equipment from site to site. This just adds to the multitude of industries that theatrical technicians can apply their interdisciplinary skills to.
The idea that Sky Elements managed to fly 71,207 drones within three days in Texas really amazes me, and I do not think this would be possible without the development of AI. It is simply impossible to write programs by hand for 10,000 drones and make sure that none of them will collide with others when creating a huge dragon on the sky. This is where AI comes to the rescue. Now there is much talk about AI taking jobs from artists, and this is understandable, but this is the perfect example of how AI can be used as an instrument, not as a replacement. The images were designed by humans, the story of the performance was written by humans, and it was executed live by humans. This way, when used right, AI can help artists create amazing things that would never have been possible otherwise. AI can be a tool when put in the hands of skilled artists.
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