By Tekla Perry GMTIs Drone Racing the Next Consumer Fad？ Game of Drones Hopes So

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Marque Cornblatt， CEO of San Francisco-based Game of Drones， sees a lot of “pain points” in today’s drones. （In startup speak， “pain points” means “problems”。） They’re expensive， they’re hard to learn to fly， and they’re fragile， he says.

So last year， Game of Drones got a hard-to-destroy drone body （with no motor or electronics on board） to market via a successful Kickstarter campaign. This drone kit was targeted at hobbyists who know enough about drones to build them， and wanted to engage in drone combat—or at least not have to repair their drones after crashes. The drone body sells for $140. The company then added complete build-a-drone kits for $400 to $700 to its offerings.

Next year， Game of Drones will move beyond kits for do-it-yourselfers and bring out a ready-to-fly racing drone， Cornblatt said last week， speaking to a crowd of investors， journalists， and other entrepreneurs attending the Highway 1 accelerator’s demo day. The Flow State Tantrum， or FST， will be designed for people who want to use a drone right out of the box.

The under-$500 gadget will have a built-in camera that sends video to a handheld controller or to virtual reality glasses; the viewpoint will make the user feel like he’s in the drone’s cockpit， Cornblatt says. The controller will have all the smarts needed to set up and operate the drone—no separate computer necessary. And the system will require the user to complete a series of “flight school” lessons before turning over complete control， so “you don’t immediately crash your drone onto the White House lawn，” he says. A flight simulator built into the controller will allow drone enthusiasts to practice their flying skills without even putting the drone into the air.

Cornblatt thinks drone racing， and other drone games， are going to be a huge market， and may even turn drone gaming into a spectator sport， as has happened with video gaming， or “e-sports.”

Cornblatt had mockups of the FST on hand at Highway 1’s demo day， but refused to let them be photographed; they are smaller than Game of Drones current models， measuring 280 mm （about 11 inches） across. The company expects the FST to be officially introduced this fall.

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為了讓無(wú)人機(jī)更耐“斗”，Game of Drones要打造一臺(tái)“堅(jiān)不可摧”的無(wú)人機(jī) is無(wú)人駕駛賽車未來(lái)消費(fèi)時(shí)尚嗎？游戲無(wú)人機(jī)希望so

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品牌康布拉特游戲，三藩的CEO的游戲?yàn)榛A(chǔ)的無(wú)人機(jī)，看到很多的 痛點(diǎn) 在今天的無(wú)人機(jī)。（在啟動(dòng)時(shí)說(shuō)， 痛點(diǎn) 是 問(wèn)題 。）他們 再貴，他們‘ 再難學(xué)飛，他們 是脆弱的，他說(shuō)。

去年，游戲無(wú)人機(jī)有硬摧毀無(wú)人機(jī)體（船上沒有汽車或電子）通過(guò)一個(gè)成功的Kickstarter的運(yùn)動(dòng)市場(chǎng)。這種無(wú)人機(jī)的套件是針對(duì)愛好者知道 足夠的關(guān)于無(wú)人機(jī)的建設(shè)，和想從事無(wú)人機(jī)作戰(zhàn) 或至少?zèng)]有崩潰后修復(fù)他們的無(wú)人機(jī)。該無(wú)人機(jī)的售價(jià)為140美元。公司隨后補(bǔ)充完成build-a-drone包為400美元至700美元的產(chǎn)品。

明年，游戲無(wú)人機(jī)將超越 包DIY 并提出了飛行準(zhǔn)備賽車的嗡嗡聲，康布拉特上周說(shuō)，跟一群投資者、記者和其他企業(yè)家參加公路1加速器 的演示日。流動(dòng)狀態(tài)的發(fā)脾氣，或FST，會(huì)設(shè)計(jì)的人誰(shuí)想要使用 無(wú)人機(jī)開箱。

下500美元的設(shè)備將有一個(gè)內(nèi)置的攝像頭，將視頻發(fā)送給手持控制器或虛擬現(xiàn)實(shí)眼鏡 的觀點(diǎn)會(huì)使用戶覺得他’ 在無(wú)人機(jī) 的駕駛艙，康布拉特說(shuō)?？刂破鲗⑺械闹腔坌枰O(shè)置和操作無(wú)人機(jī) 沒有必要單獨(dú)的計(jì)算機(jī)。然后系統(tǒng)會(huì)要求用戶完成一系列的 飛行學(xué)校 之前完全控制的教訓(xùn)，所以 你不立即崩潰你的無(wú)人機(jī) 在白宮的草坪上， 他說(shuō)。飛行模擬器內(nèi)置的控制器將允許無(wú)人機(jī)愛好者練習(xí)飛行技巧甚至沒有 把無(wú)人機(jī)進(jìn)入空氣。

康布拉特認(rèn)為無(wú)人駕駛賽車，和其他無(wú)人機(jī)的比賽，將是一個(gè)巨大的市場(chǎng)，甚至可能把無(wú)人機(jī)的游戲變成一個(gè)旁觀者，如發(fā)生與視頻游戲，或 電子競(jìng)技。

康布拉特有樣機(jī)的FST手頭上1號(hào)公路 的演示日，但拒絕讓他們拍照 他們比無(wú)人機(jī) 游戲 電流模型，測(cè)量280毫米（約11英寸）在。 該公司預(yù)計(jì)，F(xiàn)ST是正式介紹這個(gè)秋天。