Disney is renowned for AV innovations in its theme parks. In 1963, it pioneered the use of audio-animatronics – eerily lifelike robots synchronised to speech. Nearly two decades later, Disney gave millions of guests their first taste of 3D with the premiere of Magic Journeys, a film about life through…
A British local police force has announced the purchase of two new lightweight, portable 8K camera drones. Nottinghamshire Police Force said the Autel Evo II 640T camera drones would be used by the force's drones team of 16 highly trained officers which was established in January 2020. The new drones are…
Riedel Communications has teamed up with SailGP Technologies and Skyroads, a global leader in the field of automated flight, to deliver more-immersive imagery and a substantially reduced CO2 footprint at major public events. Riedel and Skyroads are entering into a strategic alliance to deliver a $20m order of Skybot-Cam systems,…
AGB Events has created and produced the largest drone show in the southern hemisphere for a new festival held in Sydney, Australia from 1-5 January. The company worked with 500 drones and experts from Intel and Australian consultancy Mirragin on the SkyShow which concluded each day at the ELEVATE Sydney…
In a year in which New Year's Eve fireworks celebrations were still scaled back or cancelled in many cities around the world, drones and outdoor LED advertising screens have played a starring role in organised festivities. Major events included the UK's largest drone show in London, and the simultaneous display…
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has put on a drone light show in a remote mountainous area of southwestern China, to promote public health education messages. The 1,000 drone show aimed to relay six medical messages to local residents in the Yi ethnic group, about the importance of maternity testing, childhood vaccination,…
The Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultaneously has been broken, with a display by 3,281 drones to mark the launch of Hyundai's luxury vehicle brand Genesis into the Chinese market. The drone show took place in Shanghai on 29 March. The show offered witnesses…
A 600-drone show lasting 26 minutes and 19 seconds depicting the life of Vincent Van Gogh has achieved a Guinness World Record for the longest animation performed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The show was put on by the EFYI Group of China, supported by Tianjin University, using 600 Agile…
AV Award-winning drone swarm specialist Skymagic has put on a 300-drone New Year's Eve show featuring an image of a "You're on mute" symbol from a videoconferencing call and a Black Lives Matter fist salute. The live show, which was filmed in London and broadcast on the BBC1 TV channel,…
Pixel Artworks has lit up the skies above London’s Greenwich district with the colours of the rainbow as it harnessed cutting-edge creative technology to fly the city’s very first drone light show above a former royal residence. Captured as part of an internal R&D project using experimental photography and video…
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