Mogi: VR Drone Composer

This video was originally uploaded in late 2016, but making it public from unlisted has made changed the publish date.
This is a concept of orchestrating drones to create light paintings using VR painting tools for a 1:1 mapping to micro drones.
This was filmed using only my iPhone in my living room, so the it is certainly a rough cut. There is still much work to be done to streamline the exporting and flying process.
www.mogi.io
This demo combines the following:
HTC Vive and Google's Tilt Brush
Optitrack motion capture system
Blender for mild mesh processing (removing vertex doubles)
USC ACT Lab's crazyswarm
PABLO iOS app for light painting

[@killaDandM]

fucking badass man.

[@bassemb]

Sweet!!
Also, do you think a system like Optitrack can be replaced by the SteamVR basestations if the drones carry a SteamVR tracker on them?

[@isbestlizard]

Why do you need such an expensive Optitrack tracking system, when the lighthouse and some 0.01 cent IR photosensors will give sub mm accuracy?