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Epson, providers of the Moverio® augmented reality (AR) smart eyewear platform, today announced a partnership with DJI, the world’s leading maker of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to create new solutions for the Epson Moverio smart glasses and DJI’s suite of products and software development kit (SDK) that enhance the safety, …

PowerVision is not resting. It was just a couple weeks ago that they announced they’re taking pre-orders for their innovative new consumer drone, the PowerEgg. Yesterday at the InterDrone trade show PowerVision unveiled the PowerEye a drone designed for professional cinematography. The PowerEye features PowerVision’s integrated Dual Viewing capability which …

Parrot Announces their S.L.A.M. dunk Development Kit This kit allows for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance indoor navigation and 3D mapping for drones and other robotic platforms in environments with multiple barriers and where GPS signals are not available. The technology, according to Parrot, enables the drone to understand and …

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta delivered the grand opening keynote to thousands of attendees at the InterDrone conference in Las Vegas this morning.  His speech was largely devoted to promoting collaboration between government and industry, and touting the new and more open regulations. Huerta, the main spokesperson for the FAA, said …

Part 107 has provided some relief to large enterprise looking to incorporate drone technology and the benefits it offers into their overall operations. But there are still hurdles. While the regulations themselves are less onerous; compliance with the regulations is challenging. Today at the InterDrone show Skyward announced a partnership …

Intel has announced that they will purchase Movidius, an Irish company focusing on computer vision technology.  This is just the latest announcement of Intel’s investment in the drone and Internet-of-Things (IoT) space.  Details of the deal have not yet been made public. Movidius has raised over $85 million in venture capital over the …

Another day, another leak. On August 15th target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”>DJI trademarked the name ‘Mavic’. That word probably won’t mean much to you right now, but give it a few months and it could well be the most well-known model in the consumer drone industry. Sure, that might sound …

In advance of this week’s InterDrone show in Las Vegas, Spalding Barker Strategies announced WhirrNet, the first global network of drone sites designed to allow for increased scale and scope for Advertisers in the growing consumer, prosumer, and commercial drone space. WhirrNet is designed to allow for a single point of …

Qualcomm and AT&T are researching how drones can operate on wireless networks now and in the future. They are exploring the issues with (and possible benefits) coverage, signal, strength and mobility across network cells and how they function in flight. The goal of the research is to assist in drone …

Image: Holger Harms, CC by-SA 3.0 Do you know what’s inside your drone?  As the FAA regulation shift seems to indicate a takeoff for the commercial drone industry, it isn’t only drone manufacturers who could reap the benefit.  With products that range from the chips inside to the vision sensing …