Drone racing is absolutely thrilling to watch. These drones can go from 0 to 80 miles per hour in less than a second, moving quickly through obstacle courses built specifically for drones. Now, brand sponsorships are thinking more creatively than ever to catch their audiences. Drone racing is starting to gain popularity in a huge way. The New York-based Drone Racing League is a three-year-old company that organizes races in various cities and has been growing in audience and advertiser bases by integrating brand sponsorships directly into the events. Drone racing fans aren’t into traditional a ..read more

Photographers have been taking cameras into the air almost as long as cameras have existed. Some photographers hovered above in hot air balloons while others hooked their cameras up to kites with electrical charges to release the shutter. Even birds were utilized until aircraft were invented. Today, drones can do it all and are easily controlled by the remote in your hand. If you run a hotel, resort, golf course, or a casino: you likely manage an extremely large property. Effective management of that property consists of many things: Surveying the property regularly Ensuring maintenance is be ..read more

As New Orleans’s best drone company, we have a few things to tell you about the new and exciting opportunities for drones! Photographers have been taking cameras into the air almost as long as cameras have existed. Some photographers hovered above in hot air balloons while others hooked their cameras up to kites with electrical charges to release the shutter. Birds would even be utilized until aircraft were invented. Today, drones do it all and are easily controlled by the remote in your hand. If you run a hotel, resort, golf course, or a casino: you likely manage an extremely large property ..read more

Drones are quickly and drastically improving the construction surveying process. On its own, construction surveying allows construction companies and their clients to learn more about the land surrounding their building. With drones, however, surveying can begin to develop even more detailed maps of the land, including topographical and heat charts. By using drone technology, the construction companies can even see 3D images of the land, a clearer and more realistic depiction than any other photograph. With all the information the drones provide, construction companies can hope to make better ..read more

By now, you already know that drone companies in New Orleans are few and far in between. Here at V-Drone, we are constantly researching the latest news in the drone world!  In a typical motion-capture animation setup, an actor goes through their actions in a studio equipped with multiple cameras while a computer tracks the markers on the actor’s body. This enables them to build a moving 3D skeleton that is digitally fleshed out to create the final animated character. However, drones are here to change the world of animation too. Tobias Nageli, a computer scientist at Switzerland’s ETH Zur ..read more

We already know that drones are reinventing old businesses and creating brand new opportunities, but how? Whether it’s innovation in media coverage and filmmaking or new capabilities for emergency responders, drones open up so many doors. V-Drone is already in the drone industry and taking full advantage of the opportunities. Here are five ways taht drones can be utilized in the business world.   Architecture and Construction Contractors in the architecture and construction industries are already benefiting heavily by the use of drones. Drones can create architectural renderings so that a ..read more

Christmas time is here and this year, when you are looking at your Christmas tree in awe, we hope you think about the drones. Drones have the potential to revolutionize the nursery industry and that’s where many Christmas drones are produced. As labor continues to be the number one challenge for nursery growers, any potential for automation should be considered. Labor shortage isn’t the only problem presenting itself in the agriculture industry: agriculture businesses are also consolidating medium sized farms in order to be bought out by larger farms. With Geographic information services (GIS ..read more

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and it’s looking like are all getting a dose of drones for Christmas! Everyone’s eyes are on Madison Square Garden during the Holiday season. This year,  Intel’s Shooting Star drones will join the Radio City Rockettes for the finale of its annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio City. These drones won’t be filming but creating a light show over the stage, using choreographed movements to create holiday-themed silhouettes in the new finale scene, Christmas Lights. This is the first time Intel’s mini drones have appeared in such a huge theatrical pe ..read more

The world of drones is constantly pushing the envelope and trying to see how many ways that they can utilize drones. Since Thanksgiving is coming, we wanted to showcase something that would get us in the Holiday season. Did you know that there are all sorts of resources on preparing your Thanksgiving Dinner with….drones? There are YouTube videos on how to hunt a turkey, cook a turkey and EVEN make your favorite side dishes. Here are some examples of the videos that are adding to the many ways that drones are used. Cooking The Bird IntelligentUAS released a video last year of a drone operator u ..read more

What better way to celebrate Halloween than to tell you all about ghost towns and drones! There are few things more chilling than an empty death camp or an abandoned city ravaged by radiation. Thanks to the use of drones, we can see parts of the world that we may never get to see in person! V-drone is always exploring the various uses of drones no matter the occasion! Here are some spooky ghost towns that have been captured by drones. Chernobyl’s Ghost Town After the Chernobyl power plant explosion in 1986, the town of Pripyat, Ukraine became an empty place. A british filmmaker Danny Cooke fle ..read more