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今天我來這裡展示Fotokite,一種有繫繩的空中攝影機。但展示之前,我想稍微談一下它的來歷及設計動機。我出生於俄羅斯,三年前,2011年,正值俄羅斯聯邦選舉期間,出現大量非正規報導,群眾挺身進行抗議,這不太像發生在俄羅斯的事,沒有人真的知道這些抗議具有多麼重大的意義。因為,無論什麼原因,全球媒體一致忽略了這個事件。現在有一群把操作空中攝影機當成嗜好的攝影師,他們通常拍攝獅身人面像、金字塔之類的東西,當時他們正好在附近,他們讓攝影機升空,拍了一些快照,這場抗議事件的全景照。這是完全獨立而隨機之舉,這張照片的景象令我震撼不已,這是其中一張全景照。因此在單獨一張照片中,你可以看見這場抗議事件的規模。我是指如此眾多的人群、顏色和旗幟,你無法把這一切視為無關緊要。全都呈現在這張照片中,我認為非常酷。
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I came here to show you the Fotokite. It's a tethered, flying camera. But before I do that, I want to tell you a bit about where it came from, what motivated it. So I was born in Russia, and three years ago, in 2011, there were the Russian federal elections. There were massive irregularities reported,and people came out to protest, which was very unlikely for Russia. And no one really knew how significant these protests were, because, for whatever reason, the world media largely ignored it. Now, there was a group of photographers who kind of flew flying cameras as a hobby —usually photographing things like the Sphinx, the Pyramids — who happened to be right around the corner, and they flew a camera and they took some snapshots, some panoramas of this demonstration. Just completely independent entity, completely random occurrence, and the image, when I saw it, it really struck me. Here's one of the panoramas. So in a single image, you can really see the scale of this event — just the number of people, the colors, the banners. You just can't consider this insignificant. All in a single image, which was really cool to me.
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我認為在未來新聞界和許多其他職業,空中攝影機的使用已非常普及,但我認為幾個月、幾年之後,對許多職業來說空中攝影機將成為必需品。這是理所當然的,它提供了獨一無二的視角,沒有任何其他方式能呈現像這樣的場面和事件全貌。但其中存在一些阻礙,相當基本而重要的阻礙,其中之一是飛行。因此以這張照片為例,他們讓一台照相機升空,攜帶重達五公斤的單反相機設備。它很重,其中有許多旋轉、尖銳的東西,不太適合飛行,或許也不適合操控。事實上你可在操控者背後看見以下文字:「降落前別問問題」,用俄語和英語書寫。因為人們會好奇,他們會拍你的背,然後你會失去注意力,導致事故發生。這些人很優秀,他們是專業高手,他們十分謹慎地對待他們所做的事。因此在抗議事件中,你也許注意到他們讓攝影機飛越河流以策安全,但並不適用於所有人和所有情況,因此我們必須讓飛行簡單些。
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And I think, in the future, journalism and many other professions, there are flying cameras already quite commonly out there, but I think, you wait a few months, a few years, and for many professions, it's really going to be a requirement. And it make sense. It's such a unique perspective. Nothing really communicates this scale, for example, in context, in a way that this does.But there are a few hurdles, and they are quite basic and quite One is piloting. So for this image, they flew a camera, a five kilogram device with an SLR under it. It's quite heavy, lots of spinning, sharp things. It's a bit uncomfortable to fly, probably also for the operator. In fact, you can see that on the back of the pilot's shirt, it says, "No questions until landing" in Russian and in English, because people are curious, and they'll go tap you, and then you lose your focus and things happen. And these guys are great. They're professionals; they're really careful in what they do. So in the protests, maybe you noticed,they flew over the river so it was quite safe. But this doesn't necessarily apply to all people and all conditions, so we really have to make piloting easier.fundamental.
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另一個問題是監管,或更確切地說,缺乏良善的監管。鑒於許多原因,很難制定管理空中攝影機的法律。因此我們已經有攝影機,我確定在座每一位都有附攝影功能的智慧手機,對嗎?這類產品日益普遍,你聽過戴Google眼鏡的人被攻擊,你聽過一位無人機操控員兩星期前遭受攻擊-他只是單純的愛好者,原因是飛行時靠近一個沙灘。我也有一些出乎意料的個人經歷,就在昨天,我被一位聲稱我拍攝他的傢伙攻擊,當時我在檢查電子郵件,正好把這件事放入演講中。但我認為確實有更好的解決方案,我認為我們必須化解這種情況,我們必須想出可靠的解決方案,針對隱私、安全和責任問題,但依然能讓我們擁有這種拍攝視角。這是一個具潛在可能性的解決方案,這是Fotokite,你們看見它是一架四軸飛行器,但它的特殊之處在於附加了一條繫繩,事實上這是一條狗鏈,非常方便。其中的精妙之處在於你不需要藉由搖桿操控飛行,只需要按下開關、指向你希望它飛行的方向,稍微轉一下,這就是操控的方式,然後它展開飛行。(掌聲)
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The other problem is regulations, or rather, the lack of good regulation. For many good reasons, it's just difficult to come up with common sense laws to regulate flying cameras. So we already have cameras. Everyone here, I'm sure, has a smartphone with a camera, right? There are more and more of them. You hear about people with Google Glass being attacked. You hear about, actually, a drone pilot, a hobbyist, was attacked two weeks ago because he was flying near a beach. Here's some personal input I didn't expect. Just yesterday, I was attacked by a guy who claimed that I was filming him. I was checking my email right here — easy way to get input for your talk. But I think there are better solutions. I think we have to defuse the situation. We have to come up with responsible solutions that address the privacy issues and the safety, accountability issues but still give us that perspective. And this is one potential solution. So this is the Fotokite. Well, let me see, it's a quadrocopter, but what's kind of special about it is there's a leash. It's literally a dog leash. It's very convenient. And the neat thing about it is, to fly it, there's no joysticks, nothing like this. You just turn it on and you point in the direction that you want to fly. You give it a little twist. That's kind of the way you communicate. And there it goes.
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因此這是十分簡單的操控方式,就像一個私人飛行寵物,它總是和你保持一個特定角度,如果我四處走動,它會自然地尾隨我的腳步。當然,我們可以做點加工,因此這個繫繩上有一些額外的電子裝置,你可以將它打開,這就像命令你的狗飛低一點,如果你有一隻像這樣的狗。因此我可以按下一個按鈕,輕而易舉地操縱它。因此我改變它的位置,相當安全。我不知道前排聽眾是否這麼認為,但-至少原則上你不得不同意,這令你感到更加安全,因為其中存在實體連接。現場示範不容易,對嗎?總會出現意料之外的情況,但無論如何這個東西會阻止它靠近你。除此之外,它會立刻讓你知道我是操控這個設備的人,你不需要尋找操控者。現在我可以告訴你這簡單多了,但我認為證明這一點更好的方法是拿起第二架Fotokite,然後發射。如果我可以在台上進行現場示範,我就可以在五分鐘內教會在座每一個人操控這些設備的方法。因此現在天上有兩隻眼睛,這是讓它們回來的方法。(笑聲)因此我留給你們的問題是:這是一個很棒的解決方案,既可行又安全,你們會用它來做什麼?你們會如何將這種攝影機應用於生活中?謝謝。(掌聲)
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So the interaction is super simple. It's like a personal flying pet. It just always maintains a certain angle to you, and if I move around with it, it'll actually follow me naturally. And of course, we can build on top of this. So this leash has some additional electronics. You can turn it on. And now, it's like telling your dog to fly lower, if you have such a dog. So, I can press a button and manipulate it rather easily. So I just shifted its position. And it's really safe. I don't know about you guys in the front row — (Laughter) — but at least in principle, you have to agree that you feel saferbecause there is a physical connection. Live demos are hard, right? Things go wrong all the time. But no matter what, this thing will actually prevent this thing from going into you. What's more, it tells you immediately that I am the one responsible for this device. You don't have to look for someone controlling it. Now, I can tell you that it's easy a lot, but I think a really good way to prove that is to grab a second one and launch it. And if I can do this on stage live, then I can show each and every one of you in five minutes how to operate one of these devices. So now we have two eyes in the sky. (Applause) And now the trick is getting them back. (Laughter) So my question now to you is, well, it's a nice solution, it's very accessible, it's safe. What would you use it for? What would you use such a camera for in your life? Thank you.