In real life, Mario Kart is a shared dream that usually does not suit your nation right – but certainly will not give up. Recently, Nintendo launched the official $100 R/C car with mixed-reality tracks and the AR-Ride in Japan’s Super Nintendo World.
Now, independent filmmaker Ian Padgham has come up with the idea of trying another one: From a self-flying drone perspective, going out on the lawn in a closed course.
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It’s not like he’s really playing a game in this fantastic video, Mana, Foot set his Skydo drone riding around him, and then he added a lot of CG to the post.
We didn’t put it all together. Speaking of which, Skydo – when can we expect an FPV headset from you? When it arrives without any brain movements, it “builds a small folding drone that easily fits into a messenger bag”.
But to quote The Six Million Dollar Man, we have the technology! Savvy programmers could totally pair a headset with a self-flying drone and make this game for real.
- As I explained in our Skydio 2 review, the company’s technology has come to the point where I implicitly trust it to follow me without crashing. You don’t need to worry about controlling this kind of drone at all — you’d only need to worry about steering the lawnmower.
- We’ve already seen that you can make real-life feel like a third-person video game by pairing a drone with an FPV headset and flying it behind your body while walking around.
- Mixed-reality headsets like the Microsoft Hololens have repeatedly and convincingly overlaid CG on top of the real world in real-time (though admittedly only across a narrow field of view). They could certainly turn reality into Mario Kart from a drone’s perspective.
- Drones like the Skydio 2 have a surprising amount of processing power inside these days, too.
- The world has absolutely built go-karts that can artificially slow themselves down when hit by a virtual turtle shell.
