We'll be launching ProView S3 Indiegogo campaign next week. Remember to sign up and get early notice, to be the lucky one for $125 Early Bird Perk if you haven't done so.
Remember this for filming yourself without cameraman? http://kck.st/1RS9F8G We expect to have a stretch goal of making available an additional perk of a gimbal stand and an App for outdoor follow me video shooting function. Video recording Phone A on ProView S3 receives camera direction command and GPS coordinate from remote phone B, phone A streams video over WiFi to phone B and sends direction command over Bluetooth to ProView S3. Once manual adjustment made having person carrying phone B in view centered on Phone A, auto tracking & video recording of person carrying phone B can then be accomplished using GPS from both phones. Having this video streaming and remote control from another phone also unleash an interesting application like Freefly Tero, http://freeflysystems.com/tero . One can do amazing low angle video shots using open-source ArduRover and related moving platform using RC controlled vehicle. This exciting extended application will later be worked on this if the stretch goal reached. Below is proof of concept demo showing video streaming from phone-A on the gimbal to phone-B, while phone-B controls camera direction of phone-A. Rapid prototyping code without any optimization, thus the behavior is very sluggish. Below is another proof of concept demo showing phone-A on the gimbal tracking phone-B using GPS. Rapid prototyped code without any optimization, thus behavior is very sluggish. A while back we did this elevator test. While preparing for our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, we made some comparison video to show effectiveness of 3-axis gimbal stabilizer. Below are some interesting comparison. Hold on to your seat in case getting dizzy headed. :-) Test setup: fix another HTC phone to ProView S3 to record stabilized and non-stabilized video simultaneously. Below compares gimbal horizontal yaw drift rate with a latest model on the market. The video is speeded up, with clock on the smartphone lying on the table showing elapsed time. After a month of engineering work on improving stabilization control, we are now happy present our result comparing with a latest smartphone stabilizer model brand on market. Videos is made by a person holding two gimbals on each hand. Although we tried to use same HTC model smartphones from colleagues for comparison, one was previously rooted with different operating system, thus causing video colorization quality difference for the videos made on the two phones. So try to see if there is difference in video stability, not color quality. With most of the engineering issues getting resolved, we are now moving forward to prepare for crowd-funding campaign!
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