The ability for drone operators to function like this without depth perception is astounding to me. The end felt anticlimactic because I had so much trouble determining the scale of everything I was looking at.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Drone op (sort of, not dedicated but have for years as a camera op) here. It's difficult! You really have to get your bearings on the way up looking towards the horizon and then add up context clues based on the shifting scale as you move, kind of taking each object in relative to each other.

Lol kidding. We have a spotter 99% of the time. You're in goggles or watching a monitor, they're going "Stop. Left. Turn 40 degrees. Drop a few inches slowly. Stop." etc.

[–] AGD4@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. I accept your initial explanation as fact.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Love it

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That totally makes more sense. I really liked the fake description as well. You definitely had me going.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It was fun, not my usual style lol

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

how soon until cheap drones have two cameras so operators can perceive depth directly?

[–] froh42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When I started to need glasses in my 40s I noticed that my eyes are wildly different, so I had no depth perception at all for all my life before. You get used to using other clues.