{"id":10434,"date":"2017-02-07T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=10434"},"modified":"2017-02-07T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:40:20","slug":"heres-lady-gagas-super-bowl-drones-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=10434","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How Lady Gaga\u2019s Super Bowl Drones Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_4_1486456716078_1926\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>Lady Gaga\u2019s Super Bowl LI<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>halftime show on Sunday<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>had something many viewers had never seen before: Hundreds of light-emitting drones flying in a synchronized pattern to show the American flag and, later, the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Pepsi<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>logo.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>How\u2019d they pull that off? It\u2019s thanks to an<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Intel<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>technology called Shooting Star, which lets programmers design airborne light shows with swarms of drones. The same tech was recently used at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Disney<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>World:<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'><div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHHMrvaXgyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_4_1486456716078_1949\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>Here\u2019s more on how Shooting Star works, via<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>Wired:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_18_0_4_1486456716078_1944\" style='margin: 0px; padding: 5px 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; quotes: \"\u201c\" \"\u201c\" \"\u201c\" \"\u201c\"; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'><p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_4_1486456716078_1943\">Each drone is about a foot long square, weighs just over eight ounces, and sports a plastic and foam body to soften inadvertent impacts. They aren\u2019t as flashy as consumer quadcopters, which is just as well, because you\u2019re not supposed to notice them. Instead, you\u2019re supposed to notice the four<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>billion<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>color combinations created by the onboard LEDs, and the aerial acrobatics choreographed with meticulous coding.<\/p>\n<p>Each drone communicates wirelessly with a central computer to execute its dance routine, oblivious to what the hundreds of machines around it are doing. The system can adapt on the, er, fly, too. Just before showtime, the computer checks the battery level and GPS signal strength of each drone, and assigns roles accordingly. Should a drone falter during the show, a reserve unit takes over within seconds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>Another fun fact: Intel had to tape the drone display well before the Super Bowl to avoid running afoul of airspace rules.<\/p>\n<p style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>The Shooting Star system results in some pretty impressive light displays, but it could also be handy for other uses. Squadrons of coordinating drones with infrared cameras, for instance, could be used in search and rescue operations.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga\u2019s Super Bowl LI&nbsp;halftime show on Sunday&nbsp;had something many viewers had never seen before: Hundreds of light-emitting drones flying in a synchronized pattern to show the American flag and, later, the&nbsp;Pepsi&nbsp;logo. How\u2019d they pull that off? It\u2019s thanks to an&nbsp;Intel&nbsp;technology called Shooting Star, which lets programmers design airborne light shows with swarms of drones. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[560,1277],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Here\u2019s How Lady Gaga\u2019s Super Bowl Drones Worked - TheFastFashion.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=10434\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Here\u2019s How Lady Gaga\u2019s Super Bowl Drones Worked - TheFastFashion.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lady Gaga\u2019s Super Bowl LI&nbsp;halftime show on Sunday&nbsp;had something many viewers had never seen before: Hundreds of light-emitting drones flying in a synchronized pattern to show the American flag and, later, the&nbsp;Pepsi&nbsp;logo. 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