Skydio Announces New Features Coming to Skydio App
DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby
Skydio announced a set of updated features and improvements coming to the Skydio app later this month. Utilizing an on-board navigation camera, Skydio’s pilots can choose their preferred capture type from vertical, horizontal, or spherical, with the device displaying a low-resolution live preview of panoramic framing.
Vertical panorama captures a 180-degree panorama in front of the drone, horizontal panorama captures a 180-degree wide landscape centered vertically on the horizon, and spherical capture takes pictures in all directions, allowing you to see what you can see inside the drone. Stitch together shareable images that you can view. 360° interactive photo viewer. Captured high-resolution images can be saved directly to the user’s device.
New Camera Controls: Precise and Repeatable Flight Paths
New camera controls allow pilots to adjust the gimbal roll angle. This angle can be saved with each keyframe for accurate and repeatable flight paths, or adjusted during playback for real-time creative control. After setting the keyframe flight path, the user can select the new keyframe playback style dynamic his gimbal roll. Skydio then examines the designated flight path and automatically adjusts both camera roll and gimbal pitch as the drone passes corners and adjusts speed.
The Skydio drone’s ability to understand its environment allows it to replay flight paths, a core feature of the KeyFrame experience. Skydio has made multiple adjustments under the hood to improve KeyFrame accuracy by continuously re-learning flight paths and comparing real-time environmental data to his previous KeyFrame takes.
With these adjustments, Skydio drones recalibrate every second of every flight to deliver the same shot in the same location, whether taken days, weeks, or months later. Continuously corrects even the smallest variations. By loading the latest keyframes created from previous flights, Skydio drones can utilize data from previous flights to steer precisely to their previous starting position.
Also offered by the new update is the addition of a Low Battery Auto Return toggle to the RTH settings menu. With this toggle enabled, Skydio will automatically go home when the battery is low.
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Ian attended Dominican University in California and graduated with a BA in English in 2019. With his lifelong passion for writing and storytelling and keen interest in technology, he now contributes to his DroneLife as a staff writer.
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