Google has filled a patent that will allow us to use drones for videoconference sessions in telepresence. Drones will therefore replace robots that are actually used for this purpose. Telepresence is a technique that make use of robots to allow people who are physically distant to assisst to a meeting. In this way, you have a robot of the same height as a human with a tablette as head and tyres as legs that can track anybody. The tablette display the face of somebody who can see whatever is happening around the robot. However now, it seems that Google is asking itself what if we use a drone instead ? According to the patent spotted by Quartz, Google is designing a quadricopter as the Phantom 4 of DjI and the Bebop 2 of Parrrot. It embeds a camera and can even host a smartphone that retransmit the image in real time and in addition a screen that retransmit the image of the interlocutor. In this way, the interlocutor will be able to move rather than to be static like what the standard videoconference cameras has to offer. However this project by Google has it own flaws and too much even. Indeed drones causes a lot of noise therefore posing a communication problem. Also, drones are dangerous indeed with it propellers that make thousands turns per minutes and therefore it won't be adequate to use it inside a close area. According to Frandroid, the drone will be able to display holograms and if we go further, it will also be able to provide a VR experience allowing people to move in a distant place with the help of a 360° camera fixed on the drone.
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