How Intel Lit Up the Super Bowl With Drones (and Why)

How Intel Lit Up the Super Bowl With Drones (and Why)
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Here at Future Tense, we're on the record with our belief that no Super Bowl is complete unless it features jetpacks. In that respect—if in few others—Lady Gaga's enthusiastic, inclusive halftime performance arguably disappointed.
Still, the production incorporated a compelling bit of contemporary technology: In a reportedly pre-recorded sequence, a swarm of 300 tightly coordinated drones lit up the sky, circling around one another in patterns choreographed tightly as anything happening on stage. While Gaga mugged at the camera, the devices came together, forming the shape of a massive American flag.*

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