Short Film Shows Us San Francisco Being Patrolled by Drones
We've got a cool short film for you to watch today, called "Our Drone Future." It was created by Alex Cornell and shows us what it could be like for a city like San Francisco to be patrolled by drones. The drone interacts with a human officer monitor, but operates on its own.
Created with DJI Phantom Drones, After Effects, Premier, Logic, GoPro, and a liberal interpretation of FAA regulations:
Our Drone Future explores the technology, capability, and purpose of drones, as their presence becomes an increasingly pervasive reality in the skies of tomorrow.
In the near future, cities use semi-autonomous drones for urban security. Human officers monitor drone feeds remotely, and data reports are displayed with a detailed HUD and communicated via a simulated human voice (designed to mitigate discomfort with sentient drone technology). While the drones operate independently, they are "guided" by the human monitors, who can suggest alternate mission plans and ask questions.
Specializing in predictive analysis, the security drones can retask themselves to investigate potential threats. As shown in this video, an urban security drone surveys San Francisco's landmarks and encounters fierce civilian resistance.
This gives us an interesting glimpse of what we could actually end up seeing in the near future. Thanks to io9!