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I think anyone whose been on these boards for awhile knows where I stand with respect to 3DR vs DJI.
But I have some fundamental concerns about the Solo and where it is headed. I expected optical flow from 3DR by Christmas. I expected a lot more accessories from 3rd parties by Christmas. I did not expect, but I hoped for third party gimbals that would fit on Solo and carry better cameras.
Instead, all we've really seen from 3rd parties is some lights and prop guards. There just isn't much of an ecosystem around the Solo. I thought the open source nature of the software and hardware would mean faster innovation. Meantime, companies like Uneec and DJI have standardized things like optical flow and moved on to introduce obstacle avoidance, and in DJI's case, CV based object tracking. If they bothered to add something like cablecam it would render the Solo completely obsolete.
It makes me question whether 3DRs approach is worthwhile, and whether they can survive while others innovate more quickly.
But I have some fundamental concerns about the Solo and where it is headed. I expected optical flow from 3DR by Christmas. I expected a lot more accessories from 3rd parties by Christmas. I did not expect, but I hoped for third party gimbals that would fit on Solo and carry better cameras.
Instead, all we've really seen from 3rd parties is some lights and prop guards. There just isn't much of an ecosystem around the Solo. I thought the open source nature of the software and hardware would mean faster innovation. Meantime, companies like Uneec and DJI have standardized things like optical flow and moved on to introduce obstacle avoidance, and in DJI's case, CV based object tracking. If they bothered to add something like cablecam it would render the Solo completely obsolete.
It makes me question whether 3DRs approach is worthwhile, and whether they can survive while others innovate more quickly.