Subsidiary to the popular car manufacturing company, Hyundai, in South Korea, Genesis announced its entry into the Chinese automotive market, and in doing so, it broke a Guinness World Record.?
The South Korean company known for its premium cars made the announcement with the help of 3,281 drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles) that displayed a rather breathtaking light show to steal everyone's attention in China¡¯s tech city, Shanghai.?
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The swarm of drones, with its LED lights not just created the Genesis logo, but it also created the iconic car models that were going to be introduced -- the newly unveiled G80 and the GV80.?
The drones first started by forming the iconic Genesis grille. From that drones, slowly formed patterns, while blinking their lights in a way to resemble a car¡¯s LED headlights. And within moments the grill turned into the front-perspective view of the car and it eventually turned into the two aforementioned car models.?
The drone show with 3,291 UAVs has set a new Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles in the air at the same time. The previous record was held by China¡¯s Shenzhen Damoda Intelligent Control Technology who had flown 3.051 drones in September 2020.?
They broke a record set by Russia that it had set by flying a fleet of 2,200 drones.?The record was last claimed by CPU giant Intel which flew 2,066 drones over Folsom, California in 2018.?
Looking at this show makes many of us wonder as to how they were able to achieve such a breathtaking feat, considering controlling even one drone is no piece of cake (people who¡¯ve tried flying one will definitely agree), let alone making sure over 3,000 stays in formation and not crash into one another, and make animations along the way.?
Well, that¡¯s because no human actually flies them. The drones are controlled via software (like DroneShowSoftware) which has the presets to form the shapes. It forms them while also possessing anti-collision measures to prevent drones from crashing into each other.?
They test run simulations to make sure the drones can run in a proper formation thus eliminating losses caused due to accidents during trials. This software also adds a digital fence, restricting the drones in a particular area and thus not risking the lives of people around them.?
Watch the entire show below: