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An Intelligent Drone Takes Extreme Snowboarding to the Skies

Hands-off filmmaking from 50' in the air? There’s an app for that.
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Entirely self shot with the HEXO+ during the GoPro athlete camp at #cmhheli in Galena… I only rode a few lines but got amazed at the evolution of it!I let you judge…enjoy…Next Level Aerial Filming www.hexoplus.com #autoflyingcamera #dronefuture Posted by Xavier De Le Rue on Thursday, April 9, 2015

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Rarely do extreme sports look as serene as they do through the aerial eye of an autonomous drone. Above, in one of the first HEXO+ drone flights captured by Xavier De Le Rue, the intelligent drone tracks the snowboarder from afar as he cuts the steep slopes of Galena, British Columbia. By simply attaching a GoPro to the sleek underbelly of the drone and picking his framing settings with the HEXO+ smartphone app, De Le Rue was ready for a no-holds-barred feat of hands-off filmmaking. Of course, this proved ideal for the athlete who, with his cameraman airborne, was able to fully commit himself to “enjoying the pow,” as he writes in the comments on his Facebook page.

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Via Transworld Snowboarding

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