'Similar to fireworks, but a lot cooler.' Watch Intel's effort to break drone record

Intel dazzled its Folsom audience on July 15, 2018 with a spectacular light show designed to feature 1,500 drones, in an effort to outdo its previous world record of 1,218 Intel Shooting Star drones. The performance displayed multicolored choreography including bright, fireworks-like orbs. A single pilot mans the entire fleet of light-emitting remotely controlled machines.
Video by Paul Kitagaki Jr.
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[@SveenxHD]

imagine surprising an ancient isolated tribe at night with this

[@Bismarck835]

Intel Inside

[@ChiliM4n]

I can already see those massive ads flying through the sky in the future. Or company/casino logos floating above their buildings

[@dogdude5744]

Someone please recreate that Mega Mind scene with this technology

[@clex2349]

Suddenly you hear a million tiny guns reloading in the sky and the lights all turn red

[@Poemwriter_Angelo]

i would like to see medieval people react to this.

[@arvinolteng3201]

Imagine a bunch of red drones swooping in spelling AMD.

[@coolemur976]

Soon: 3D movies in the sky.

[@nicolasknoester7628]

I thought that you could see fireworks from space due to the thumbnail

[@mariogamer929]

That's some serious engineering and software there!

[@bradwooldidge6979]

Drones are another thing futurists didn’t see coming.

[@reddrip1550]

Finally Mysterio from Spiderman got his tech released

[@thecapacitor1395]

I'm 23 and I'm already feeling like I'm in the future, can't imagine this world in another 23 years.

[@MossPalone]

In before some rich KZbinr bought a bunch of drones and display a massive phallic object in the sky just for the lols. I'm looking at you Mr. beast

[@matthewhoey3058]

The birds must’ve been like: 😳

[@ishandraws8884]

I was expecting the drones to spell "now i'd like to thank today's sponsor RAID SHADOW LEGEND"

[@SuperPussyFinger]

Imagine trying to recharge all those drones.

[@MrRaboyto]

We gonna get some some Bladerunner looking advertising soon

[@danielwhyatt3278]

That has definitely got to be the greatest drone display I’ve ever seen.

[@nt6444]

Smaller drones could basically become a hologram