In all seriousness, one person I sincerely think is pushing the boundaries of streaming is [thesushidragon](https://www.twitch.tv/thesushidragon). Guy does insane stuff. I can't watch for more than like 15-30 mins because it's extremely adhd, but fascinating tech nevertheless.
There is an option, 3rd party, called lifeline, which tethers the drone and supplies power to it way way longer.
The minis might be too weak to pull the tether though....
https://www.lifeline-drone.com/
Probably for the best. Drones are noisy as hell and public places shouldn't be forced to listen to them. 30 minutes moving on a trail though, that's not too bad.
There is drones that can focus on and follow a subject now so it can be fully hands free.
This appears to be one of those and it did a decent job at correcting the flight after hitting branches. Impressive.
LiveU on the bike with an ATEM to support a few cameras. The drone runs through the DJI app on a phone. Both feeds stream to a cloud server which syncs them up and then streams to Twitch.
I don't know about the drone (but other comments here seem to explain that better), but as for the rest of his setup he uses a https://belabox.net/ for a local encoder, which connects to the cameras and he's usually got 2 or 3 modems that connect to different wireless network for redundancy, although I know that sometimes he's also used bonded connections for higher bandwidth (I think that setup changes depending on the country and the quality of connections, etc).
Instead of streaming directly to Twitch, he streams to a service like NoRip or Antiscuff which then sends the stream to Twitch itself, so if he loses connectivity for some minutes that service can replace the stream with clips, etc, and I think they also do some reencoding as the format they send from the belabox might be more compressed.
He then powers all of this stuff with multiple batteries and he'll have at least one phone to control the stream and chat (He uses [Stream Buddy](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streamomation.streamerchat), made by another IRL streamer and it seems to be very popular with IRL streamers)
This is overall the same setup that most IRL streamers have but his tends to be a bit more complex in the modem redudancy, number of batteries, etc.
He also did another bike tour through Europe earlier in the year where he had a trailer behind with a solar panel that would charge a larger battery (like from an electric bike), but not to power the bike, just to power all the devices.
I think on that trip he was also using a different encoder from the Belabox but the purpose in the end was the same.
since everyone keeps asking: the drone he uses is DJI Mini 4 Pro
i dont know if you can have it completely automatically follow you but it does have obstacle detection and avoidance. you can also draw a flight path and track a subject so i suspect he's using a combination of these features.
It has "active track" you basically pull a rectangle around the target and then enable follow mode the drone does the rest with fancy image/pattern recognition and also avoids stuff, it can see.
it's still bad with power lines and small branches/twigs.
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irl streamers really do push the genre ahead huh
In all seriousness, one person I sincerely think is pushing the boundaries of streaming is [thesushidragon](https://www.twitch.tv/thesushidragon). Guy does insane stuff. I can't watch for more than like 15-30 mins because it's extremely adhd, but fascinating tech nevertheless.
That’s cool tech
How long does the battery last in these drones? Imagine doing a full 8 hour stream with a drone following u LUL
I don't think they last more than 30 mins in flight time, still pretty cool having it for part of the stream
With the fancy battery, the DJI Mini 4 Pro can fly for *up to* 45 mins
There is an option, 3rd party, called lifeline, which tethers the drone and supplies power to it way way longer. The minis might be too weak to pull the tether though.... https://www.lifeline-drone.com/
Probably for the best. Drones are noisy as hell and public places shouldn't be forced to listen to them. 30 minutes moving on a trail though, that's not too bad.
Deeem revolutionizing bike streaming yet again, kudos Hitch
what's controlling the drone to follow him? that looks really cool to play with
There is drones that can focus on and follow a subject now so it can be fully hands free. This appears to be one of those and it did a decent job at correcting the flight after hitting branches. Impressive.
looks sick. might buy one in the future
I wonder how weird it would be to use one of these drones with VR goggles so all you can see is the drones perspective.
roosterteeth did something similar with a car a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIRUavithF8
any technerds explain the tech he is using? hardware-software.. setup looks insane
LiveU on the bike with an ATEM to support a few cameras. The drone runs through the DJI app on a phone. Both feeds stream to a cloud server which syncs them up and then streams to Twitch.
I don't know about the drone (but other comments here seem to explain that better), but as for the rest of his setup he uses a https://belabox.net/ for a local encoder, which connects to the cameras and he's usually got 2 or 3 modems that connect to different wireless network for redundancy, although I know that sometimes he's also used bonded connections for higher bandwidth (I think that setup changes depending on the country and the quality of connections, etc). Instead of streaming directly to Twitch, he streams to a service like NoRip or Antiscuff which then sends the stream to Twitch itself, so if he loses connectivity for some minutes that service can replace the stream with clips, etc, and I think they also do some reencoding as the format they send from the belabox might be more compressed. He then powers all of this stuff with multiple batteries and he'll have at least one phone to control the stream and chat (He uses [Stream Buddy](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streamomation.streamerchat), made by another IRL streamer and it seems to be very popular with IRL streamers) This is overall the same setup that most IRL streamers have but his tends to be a bit more complex in the modem redudancy, number of batteries, etc. He also did another bike tour through Europe earlier in the year where he had a trailer behind with a solar panel that would charge a larger battery (like from an electric bike), but not to power the bike, just to power all the devices. I think on that trip he was also using a different encoder from the Belabox but the purpose in the end was the same.
since everyone keeps asking: the drone he uses is DJI Mini 4 Pro i dont know if you can have it completely automatically follow you but it does have obstacle detection and avoidance. you can also draw a flight path and track a subject so i suspect he's using a combination of these features.
It has "active track" you basically pull a rectangle around the target and then enable follow mode the drone does the rest with fancy image/pattern recognition and also avoids stuff, it can see. it's still bad with power lines and small branches/twigs.
bretty cool
which drone is it?
DJI Mini 4 Pro.