FPV drone
description: an FPV (First-Person View) drone is equipped with cameras, transmitting live video to goggles or a screen, giving the pilot a drone's-eye view, often used in racing and aerial filming
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by
Kevin Kelly
Published 6 Jun 2016
Recently I joined some drone hobbyists who meet in a nearby park on Sundays to race their small quadcopters. With flags and foam arches they map out a course over the grass for their drones to race around. The only way to fly drones at this speed is to get inside them. The hobbyists mount tiny eyes at the front of their drones and wear VR goggles to peer through them for what is called a first-person view (FPV). They are now the drone. As a visitor I don an extra set of goggles that piggyback on their camera signals and so I find myself sitting in the same pilots’ seats and see what each pilot sees. The drones dart in, out, and around the course obstacles, chasing each other’s tails, bumping into other drones, in scenes reminiscent of a Star Wars pod race.