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Hi, nice being too nice Hello everyone, it's a great pleasure to be here to present to you some of my work my name is Matthew Vitz and I come from Paris, France The vast majority of my work Not playing Sorry, yeah, the last majority of my work deals with using blender, but I do wear the same multiple hats on the one hand I'm the CEO of a company that is called for colleagues parties Which deals with the video analysis and the 3d reconstruction of complex events using heterogeneous Sources we mostly work for the French justice or the institutional projects to get a better idea Idea of what we do. I really recommend watching the amazing talk from Nick from forensic architecture from last year's conference On the other hand I've been involved over the last 10 years First as a PhD then a researcher and now freelancer on some research projects that led to the development of an addon That is called blend DIC that is now Used by aerospace engineer for performing what we call virtual material and expert and structural experiments So I will take the remaining 18 ish minutes to tell you the story of that addon And how it helps engineers doing their job So let me first explain to you what we call material and structural experiments So as researcher or engineers, we usually have to solve real life problems We see something that we want to understand in our case sometimes it would be the cracking in reinforced concrete We want to predict to follow the tip of a crack that would go along a beam a first stage When doing so consists in conceptualizing the problem basically making a mathematical model of the phenomenon Once this is done. We may produce a Computer model base that basically translates the equations into some code Some experiments can then be performed sometimes at different scales and there are different assumptions in To prove the computer model as well as the mathematical model During all these steps multiple sets of data are generated in order to validate the whole process So I will be focusing in that work on the last step The experimental part in between the computer model and proofing the real-world phenomenon So when designing new material or structures, we must study what we call the mechanical behavior of Of these materials at different scales in order to answer different questions The questions are going to be how will the Structure deform how will it crack? What is going to be what we call its mechanical response to given mechanical stresses so the Experimental campaigns that I mentioned May require to test more or less large structures at using more or less complex or big machines and in this talk I will refer to Samples which are rather low-scale pieces from a few nanometers to up some types a few centimeters or structures that are assemblies of these samples and I kind of prompt some centimeters to much higher pieces like meters Each scale will provide some very meaningful information So these experiments may be difficult to set up though depending on the shape of the sample on the Well on the phenomenon that we want to characterize if it's going to be purely mechanical Behavior if it's fatigue if it's couple problems like magnet or mechanical problems So I told you earlier. I was going to tell you a story But that's what started as a non-funded research project and that ended up now being an add-on that is the It developed in partnership with a French startup company called ecosystem and as that is now being used by engineers in the arena six This add-on is called blend the IC Probably guess that the blend part is for blender and DIC stands for digital image correlation So what is the IC? It's really simple with no math or symbols that would scare the hell out of you I showed you here a representation of what is a 2d 2-dimensional DIC test what it looks like So we have a testing machine that you have here that is going to be pulling on a sample and while it pulls on the sample we have a digital camera that we'll be taking some pictures at different time steps and We will basically record the formation of the sample and especially These dots black and white dots that we call a speckle that are that are painted on the sample and by looking at How these dots move we can see cracks appearing But we can also get to the mechanical mechanical behavior of the sample that is being studied depending on How the sample will deform on how large it may be one need to use one digital camera usually for 2d motion To do digital cameras. That's what we call a stereo system for 3d motion Or when it gets larger while you need multiple sets of these cameras for each surface For example that we will study I mentioned classical cameras, but one may also use thermal imaging high-speed cameras or a mix of all of them that might be required and so that involves in the end lots of cameras machines cables Stands light systems and all the structures that you need to hold everything together So to give you an impression of what the overall pipeline looks like I'm at this figure so as I mentioned earlier we start with a simulation and And a design we want to measure something Then When the simulation is done We go to the experimental part where we have to set up the experiment and do the actual Experiment that will generate a lot of data in our case mostly digital pictures that we need to post process to extract mechanical information This first part is let's say Virtual it happens like on a computer And what it may take a lot of time? weeks up to some months some time to be able to code and prove the code But the most costly part is probably the experimental part which because it requires a lot of people you need engineers technicians Researchers all together on a machine And so the setup itself can take some week and the experiment part what depends on what you want to do But there's a week If everything goes well the post-processing is gonna give you what you're looking for if not you have to start to From the previous step or start over if it doesn't match the real phenomenon that you're trying to understand So Something like ten years ago A colleague told me can your free software you told me about last blend something Can model a real digital camera and I was yeah, I guess and so we started investigating how we could use blender as a tool for designing this complex experience prior doing them for real With one specific experiment in mind that I'm gonna show you right now. It is a beam column assembly So it is a reinforced concrete structure the beam is kind of two meters long with a cross-section of approximately like 12 centimeters and There's the column which is one meter long, which is quite a big structure for experiments in the lab So the beam was clamped so it was blocked at Is to end and on the column? We were kind of moving the end of the column just like this like this kind of snail pattern that you can see here The goal was to study the cracking at the node So the junction between the beam and the column see how the cracks would appear on that on the top surface But also on the rare junctions And so that's what the test had been done it was that's what it looked like if you think it's a mess You're right. It was a mess. There were 10 digital cameras multiple light sources That were required Cables everywhere to power and transfer the data a Huge machine here on the bottom left corner that is called a hexapod that was here to enforce this kind of nail pattern that I showed you and And cameras going up to three or four meters high It took something like three to four weeks to set up this whole test Which means you cannot use the machine in the meantime You can it was using all the digital cameras available Which means that all the researchers could not use these cameras for the test and And so yeah, it was a very complex experiment to set up Just to show you what the process looked like Here the result of the top surface of the node and the researchers were researchers were able to show here in Kind of bright lines the cracking patterns Appearing while loading the sample so all the bright lines are cracks basically Which look nice, but we're not completely consistent with the theory with the math behind that Mostly because at the clamping of the beam It was not perfect. I started rotating a bit So the real results were not matching what was expected and remember what I said when it doesn't match You have to start over again So what we did was rather to do some kind of post-experiment retro engineering We modeled the test that already existed to compare the virtual images To the actual ones and we the goal was to see if modeling all that in blender prior to the experiment could like we could gain some time on the actual setup So we could see if some zones might be occluded if the light source were at the right place if the cameras were well positioned You have here for example for images on the 3d models for views from the cameras And even though the positions were slightly different from the real test What we thought that is that the 3d model was matching our needs to Pretty good to the real experiment So what we basically did was to add some kind of extra step in the pipeline in the visual part of this pipeline That I showed you earlier Which consists in preparing the full experiment in 3d in blender prior to doing the test in real life The goal was to Significantly reduce the setup time from weeks to only a few days Even the experiment so to improve the conditions But it's the most importantly try to avoid this kind of feedback loop and avoid any problems that would make us start all over again We published this results a few years ago Even if to be honest it was a bit difficult because to find a publisher because people Were kind of reluctant to see 3d as something that was just looking good And so although all these things look like look good in the lab where The people are used to using the tools and routines on a daily basis The transposition to an engineering lab Was not straightforward as people may only perform a handful tests a year So that's why as I was starting freelancing I decided to team up with a French startup company called ecosystem to which is specialized in Software developing for this kind of specific test the IC test and that they already knew and used blender And so we developed an add-on blend the IC that would make engineers lives easier at least when it comes to using blender Among the different specs well probably the first one was they wanted a lighter UI I guess it happened to everyone to when you open blender for the first time and you see all the panels all the things like that It kind of scared them so they wanted something that would only contain The few buttons that they might need and all the routines we had developed would be put in operators So they would just have a kind of cooking recipe to to work with that and So what mattered the most to them was the ability to load their simulation So start from the simulation on the material put that in blender life deform in blender and take virtual pictures and output these Rendered images in different configurations as well as camera locations for example all the camera parameters in order to Optimize their test as much as they could That's what we pretty much did over the last four years raising blend the IC as part of a tool called equitrain virtual that starts by converting the Simulations and then helps it guides the engineers through the whole process and It is part of a suite of softwares that will not only help them set up the thing But also post process and validate their data So here's an example. We have the design office that work on the simulation of a crash of a dummy Here was probably something that looked like a brain crash Both the displacement of that dummy if I can Load play that again, maybe yeah both the displacement of the dummy and the deformation of the base of its seat here Where important to measure So once they had the simulation they went they talked to the experimental Office and told them okay, we need to design the next one We need you to design an experiment that would measure the deformation of both the dummy and its seat So this this is kind of fake experiment that was made to prove the overall process here And so the experimental team was able to model their tests in blender Loading the geometry first testing it Rescaling the speckle if needed adding some environment and some digital cameras So one stereo system that would focus on the dummy and one system that would focus on the seat in order to To measure what they wanted they were also able to add some markers on the dummy in order to have some kind of Reference points in the scene and so once really the engineers could live preview what they were doing based on simulation files and Compare the render the images and compare that to the actual simulation He hopefully they would find the same thing but with this Pipeline they could try different things different lighting systems different cameras and everything They were quite Some challenges in developing blend the IC for this kind of thing. The first one was the ability to feed 3d image data from the simulation directly into blender and focusing developer converter to extract the data from the simulation and I developed the important custom important that was Feeding this data directly into geometry nodes attributes in order to live deform everything according to the scientific data we also needed some extra information in in the way we end up digital cameras the cameras so in BBY data cameras in order to remember the models of cameras we were using remembering like which Stereo systems of which which cameras were paired together for example as well as a custom that fulfilled To all that we developed That is slightly different from the the one in blender And the most interesting part was to have a custom render routine that I would take into account heterogeneous digital cameras, so We've mostly with different resolutions, which is not something that blender net and actively does and so here We might have different types of cameras and we need to take that into account when rendering So back to a dummy the simulation was done. We could go to the experiment Where you can see we have these four cameras The environment is kind of There's more that what the engineers would Put was just kind of to show off for the conference But what you can see it is like a lead panel these four cameras that are targeting at our dummy and Once ready, we could render these four sets of images The render is mostly done in EV If we need some more complex lighting systems, we could switch to cycles But usually Deforming the sample like that for 10 to 15 time steps for these four cameras would take four or five minutes Basically the time for the engineers to go get a coffee And when they come back they can process These different images in their favorite software, which is in our case equitrain DIC to get the measurements of the deformations of the of both the dummy and the lower part of the of the seat a Come and compare that to their simulation So that was just one example of what we can do I didn't go into too much detail because it would get a bit boring with the older the other possibilities that blend Yes, you can do But there's tons of plans in the future for this add-on the first one being called refactoring and taking into account more and more Using more and more geometry nodes, especially for live computing tons of stuff like depth of field when you start moving cameras But as well as handling procedural environments that can be useful for the engineers when designing what they want to do We also plan on using quite extensively the asset libraries So that users can build their own with their own machines their own cameras They're all all their gear they might have and accessories But also providing some that I could usually come on to all the different tests engineers do in this kind of industry that also plans for Cooper which is the optimization toolbox where what we can do for example is determine the camera location and angles depending on a given quantity of interest so using routines that would directly optimize the location of the different cameras But there are multiple over examples of what blender can do to help researchers And engineers in our field Another project we've been working on is to use for example here a robot on which is mounted a digital camera The idea is to lower the number of cameras that would be used during a test And add more flexibility in the setup moving the camera at the spots where that would be the most interesting To get the most relevant information It's still an ongoing project. There's still lots of work to Lots of things to working on you can see the glitches on just moving the camera targeting one spot at some point We're not even sure we'll be able to do that just in a minute. We may have to pipeline that With all the softwares But that's the kind of things we're working on So thank you very much for your attention. Feel free to reach out during after the conference if you have some ideas questions or remarks and I would also like to thank the many people that Directly or indirectly worked and contributed to these projects in code debugging and just providing some cool ideas So, thank you very much and enjoy the rest of the conference


Okay, very good morning Wednesday 29th of January. I hope everyone is doing well So as you can see regular start now to my briefings the Coronavirus live monitor update Which I'll get into shortly, but you can already see there in the top corner of that screen the total confirmed cases now Just a touch above 6,000 Total deaths now at a hundred and thirty-two to excuse me if I can speak properly 132 and as you can see that Hubei where the capital city in that province being Wuhan is the still the epicenter of the outbreak in China where still the predominant virus has spread and Relative containment within that geographic region for the moment. So a couple things from overnight you did have Hong Kong returning to markets. They've obviously been closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. Remember, there is a bit of a difference between When Hong Kong markets open in the mainland so Hong Kong catching up really I would I wouldn't over interpret the fact that the Hang Seng fell 2.8% Overnight that's a sizable move, but that's because it's had to play As I said catch up from some of the movement in which we've had Earlier in the week and since the weekend And let's not forget the the more localised indices have been impacted more severely than they have here in the western world In regard to the mainland Europe the uk and the us China remains closed. Remember, they've had an extension to their Lunar New Year holidays So not looking till next week until things get back to normal business there But again that's like to monitor whether or not they'll move that Obviously the longer they remain on on lockdown or shut down in terms of their whole economy and the movement of people and Ability to be able to work and and obviously from the manufacturing activity points of view Which has already been relatively depressed albeit stabilized over the period of the last few months The longer the shutdown the more severe the economic implication could be as a knock-on effect So they definitely would want to to get things back to normal at some point soon Quick look at the charts though and and a quick a few points to discuss really For one Wall Street. I mean the Dow finished up last night 187 points If we look at the s&p and I'm going to look at three different charts here because I was in conversation with a couple of the guys yesterday About correlations, which also want to I want to mention here and these charts remain unaltered as to some of the Just general support resistance trend lines and also the ellipses which were sort of targets that we were looking at at the time and so It's not rocket science when it comes to where you think or anticipate that price movement could react to Again, the the baseline core then is your your fundamental view on whether or not you think that This coronavirus is It's kind of as far as the markets of perceiving it is controllable at least at the moment And this is my first point. I wanted to make You know, I've seen a lot of people On twitter or just generally asking me questions Saying about, you know, what was the origination and it's china. They're they they're creating these biochemically engineered kind of weapons such as viruses The death toll is way higher. It's much worse than what they're saying Quite frankly, I don't care about that. It's not important. I mean I mean I say that in the sense that yes It is important in terms of we're tracking it But you know, where it how it started where it came from is kind of, you know, yesterday's information What I'm trying to judge in my job And to help you guys in a way to see it is what is it that markets expect And at this point the fact that the total confirmed cases are at 6,000 I think 6,000 is pretty low comparative to where markets Perhaps were fearing only two days ago So at the moment unless this is to escalate and 6,000 turns to 60,000 within the next coming days I I don't really see this as being a major threat To western financial markets at this point in time. I think yesterday was a large reflection of that Yes, if you look at this graphic the rise of cases is almost exponential, but Don't forget if everyone is expecting exponential rise or then unless it's Absolutely spectacular in terms of how quickly The virus is evolving and spreading well, then this is within our expectation And so therefore it's in the mind of the investor. It's a contained situation Not contained as in the virus developing if that makes sense So that's that's the first point the second point then here is Looking at these charts from a more technical standpoint Obviously, you had the gap down in price from the chronovirus gap on the recommencement of trade over the weekend Monday was the day which the s&p saw its biggest down day in almost six months And so that was that low point which we defined and we've now Printed down at kind of the 32 33 level in the s&p However, since that point yesterday when we were talking the briefing We were kind of hovering around this area here and then it was a case of looking at the kind of range highs and then Then a potential gap fill and you can see when we did actually yesterday in the afternoon start to break The top end of that that range we had been trading Then you know, it's kind of You know clear traffic then to just try and close up the gap and that's pretty much to the tick You can see the way the the market responded from that period of around three to five pm yesterday As soon as you hit your objective, which was that that initial low that we had on friday The market then backed off We kind of consolidated around that point only then to break higher again in asia pacific session and now What was pretty decent? Resistance here now turns to pretty strong support. So as you can see from these levels So Yeah from here, I would say I feel fairly Confident now that the market might well contain a range or In this kind of fashion if not start to push higher if it is the case then that This chronovirus although the numbers will will continue to accumulate if it continues in the fashion that it is at the moment I think the markets will take that in its stride Is the point I'm making now from a third point was the correlations now That's just looking at the s&p and one of the things I was talking about yesterday was about the judgment of sentiment And obviously yesterday in the briefing we're talking a lot about you know Trying to pick up on the nuances of what the general media is talking about you remember everyone was kind of brushing aside Um the severity of it talking about the historical precedents All those big banks like jp and gs talking about the phenomenal recovery markets tend to see and so That's one part the other part then for the sentiment is You know, where is these other assets trading and the clearest barometer of risk often is things like gold and t-notes Has a nice kind of measurement of people's risk appetite And yesterday there were two kind of key periods of market movement one was here Which was as you can see Was the gap up that we had so this is the inverse mirror Reversal if you like of the s&p So as the s&p fell and gapped down at the opening of trade sunday night gold gapped up But then when we broke yesterday around midday The previous low and the highs we had on friday You can see that extension that snap lower that we had came back up to that point and then the push down And so when I was talking to some of the guys yesterday I mean as I said that these these x's here are completely unaltered obviously this price action didn't exist And so you can just see though how the planning that we were talking through did actually work Absolutely Market broke came back up to the level came all the way back down hit that target down at the s2 Which was some of the low of the period of that consolidation we had on the evening of the 24th You then had the target of the high on the 21st and 23rd We broke that hit our second x that being then the point of which Was bringing in some of the previous highs in the 21st and the 23rd and down here on that 24th And then that would have been the final exit on that trade so Again, it's you know marking out these levels You know and monitoring then the trigger points And one of the things I was saying to the guys yesterday because you know T-notes here on the bottom right the final chart I'll kind of show you Is the same sort of setup obviously if we're looking for an equity recovery and we're looking at gold trading heavy Well and to fit that narrative we'd want to be seeing t-notes continue to grind lower So at the point then we were looking at these entry points At around that pivot level down towards the the s1 and the lower bound of the price activity And you can see really if I put a horizontal line how the market Came down to that target of that initial low after the gap up we had on sunday And as per that x there we did get grind down Didn't quite get down to the point of where the friday high was before then Similar like like gold before we then have had a bit of a bounce this morning um Ideally what you're looking out for in the intraday kind of environment is Generally monitoring, let's say just looking at gold the s&p in the 10-year I think between those three then is technically looking at where there are any Relevant key levels that could act as a trigger point almost then for that Then being a catalyst for a domino effect where the trade might not be the first direct one But the subsequent move in a different asset thereafter And that's where again you're trying to Make your judgment of timing of execution But also as well your judgment about your conviction on the type of sentiment that you're seeing in the market And that's where the correlations can be particularly useful in that regard so I'll leave the technical setup and stuff to sam in a moment, but I just thought I'd cover off those those few points One thing though that I thought was quite interesting from a headline This came out of the south china morning post this morning and it was talking about you remember And this is another great example about How Human behavior is such a A key component of being able to trade the intraday and and pick up on the The nuances of the change in sentiment and the narrative of the stories On the kind of hierarchy of the news that's moving markets If you remember about before crono virus came along Everyone was talking about u.s. china trade war Of which you've pretty much heard nothing about And then from a public national interest point of view. It's like megan mackle and harry never existed After I couldn't get away from it Being exposed to news as a job now no one's no one's bothered why because there's a new story in town That's much more important that could infect all humans across the entire global Across the planet and so that's the new sexy story in town So it gets all the airplay and news channels will be you know directly looking at that So although there's a disconnect between normal tv For the man on the street market participants need to take into account then how market prices reflect this new This new kind of norm is is the point An interesting thing though going back to the u.s. china trade talks was this Chinese press reporting that crono virus Originating in wuhan has sent agriculture commodity prices tumbling And obviously it's led to the shutdown of factories and markets in mainland china for a longer period than was initially Anticipated many analysts are now starting to become increasingly skeptical about china's ability to buy The 200 billion dollars of u.s. goods in the next two years You know remember china's signed up to that phase one deal Where they've got to buy an incredible amount 200 billion worth of us goods over the next two years They're now committed to that as part of that agreement But you know how how are they able to do that when you know, they're currently all efforts are focused and concentrated on just containing this This latest outbreak So ultimately my initial take on this is I don't think that that's too much of an issue I don't think that the us is really going to press home the point on I think there would be some wiggle room on any commitments on the timings of this So if anything once crono virus if it does indeed settle like some of those banks were Backtesting with their data and in the coming weeks if this is all a distant memory An equity market start moving back to all-time highs again Actually, I think this could be a a fairly positive Development in a rather perverse way because it means then that the market Isn't going to be so sensitive to the implementation of phase one Because china might well be given a little bit of additional leeway on behalf of the us Which means less likelihood of direct confrontation about what was very feared Was the implementation of phase one and china's inability to be compliant with that And so if anything then if you remove some of that tension that perhaps could have come over the coming months As china gets its feet back on the ground and if the us allow them to be able to do that That does then downplay the severity perhaps of another flare-up in the us china trade war So in a way, perhaps this could be a positive If we move beyond the crono virus in the coming weeks All right moving off that a few other things i want to mention Obviously, it's the f mc. Don't forget. We're going to be covering that live tonight on the youtube channel So if you don't then please subscribe join us at 6 30 lb time so 12 30 if you're in chicago And i'll give you a full preview for 20 minutes before the actual announcement comes And then we'll have a listen in on geron pound the press conference Just a very brief overview because i'm going to go over this in more detail later This is where interest rates reside at the moment in the in the us and obviously we've had that mid-cycle adjustment executed the three rate cuts of 2019 And as far as markets are concerned from a rate perspective For today, it's pretty much unanimous markets are priced for an 87.3 probability of a hold in rates and in fact, you know, you might have thought well This explosion of crono virus might meant that the economies globally are going to suffer and the fed are going to have to cut rates Well, actually markets are priced if anything for a rate hike Not a rate cut It just goes to show at the moment that a lot of this isn't really phasing the rates market in terms of This this latest outbreak and what markets are more concerned about are things like the passage of the phase one trade deal And the implications that has then for Stabilization and continued ongoing growth in the u.s economy A few things that we will be watching on a very top level This is the balance sheet of the fed And if you remember the balance sheet exploded through the advent and execution of quantitative easing through the financial crisis Up to around four and a half trillion dollars from 800 billion It they then performed what is kind of more formally known as quantitative tightening Um, however, they ended the fed's balance sheet normalization If you remember during 2019 because that was when markets were seeing some sensitivity to this kind of unwinding of qe with the subsequent rate hikes that were happening at the time We had the escalation in the trade war and economy was somewhat stumbling. So they put that on ice Then you had the repo rate liquidity squeeze Meaning the short-term funding requirements in the u.s to keep the kind of system ticking over meant that they've had to start buying treasury bills at a pace of 60 billion dollars Which again is up for debate and whether or not it's not being officially termed as qe But as you can see the fed's balance sheet severely increased over a very short period of time as they try to offset any short-term issues in in the funding market and so This is going to be one of the close things that people are looking at The fed will not want to make the market It's kind of in is one of those again where the fed doesn't want to get the market comfortable with the notion that they're going to be there to support the economy forever And and they want to not spook the market when they do start Tampering down these t-bill purchases that they've been doing which at the moment They said they'll continue to at least the second quarter of this year And so perhaps then investors will look at the press conference tonight as so many indications about how they Want to go about managing that process over the coming months. Remember forward guidance Is exactly that the fed if they are going to stop this active 60 billion purchase They want to be communicating this type of thing months in advance as not to spook markets Just having a look at a few other things statement changes Probably going to be minimal The committee is likely to repeat language from december that growth has been moderate with business Spending sluggish inflating inflation remaining below two percent I don't actually think the statement is going to be that interesting at all And then otherwise the balance of risks That's kind of one of the key areas and phrasing that people look for And this really is coming from the press conference pow is likely to repeat that the u.s The u.s economy is likely to repeat that the monetary policy is in a good place and it would take a material change in the outlook To cause a move So if you think about it from a federal reserve point of view As I said the success of going through phase one of the trade deal does mean That for the moment the biggest single threat at least for now chronovirus of course to be monitored Has been executed and therefore there's no real need for them to change anything just as yet Whether one way or the other he's probably going to be questioned drone pow on The trade deal, but also chronovirus, but if you're looking for any type of clarity on chronovirus from pow I think you're going to be disappointed details Obviously are vague Quantifying its impact is incredibly difficult and will only be inaccurate And so drone pow is likely to not really say anything on the issue He's obviously going to pay heed that they'll monitor it. But what can he say? He can't really say anything So I would definitely not be looking for that to be a cue for an actionable trade over the Fed later on Final things for me to mention apple They had their results last night one of the biggest corporate earnings, of course We've got some other big names I'll show you in a second reporting today that you need to monitor if you're looking at the index futures Apple shares actually rose After market last night they reported holiday quarter revenues that exceeded market expectations Pretty firm rebound in iphone demand and surging sales of their wearable devices, particularly the air pods This obviously from a top level very important for apple's long-term strategy The refresh rate of phones given the average selling price now is much higher Meaning that contract terms generally which a few years ago would have been yearly and are now more close to three years And so a dependency then on on service applications And wearables is it is particularly key to their longevity for continued growth going forward They've managed to do that successfully The launch of their streaming tv apple kind of plus if you like has been I guess a lukewarm response They've had competition at the same time from disney and obviously it's a fairly competitive space dominated by the likes of netflix so overall fairly positive And it'd be interesting to see how they perform when we get underway later on But they're the first of other big tech giants which will be coming out Today so pre-market Before we get to microsoft and facebook though you've got bowing Bowing I think are about seven and a half percent of the dow at the moment So biggest company in the dow Jones index. So bowing will be coming out. I'll get you the set time When I have it, but normally they will be 12 half 12 london time You've also got general electric at and t mcdonald's From some of the bigger names then aftermarket microsoft facebook and then from I guess you can kind of put them in with the fang type names In terms of it being highly sensitive I mean tesla tesla. I saw some stats this morning their valuation Is bigger than ford and general motors combined. It's now bigger than volkswagen Even though they sell a fraction of the same amount of cars, obviously Um, so it's always quite interesting to see they they typically see large swings on their their corporate earnings On a quarter to quarter basis So do be aware of those earnings reports calendar wise. What have we got today? Well, there's a couple of different things For this morning. It is pretty quiet. There's not a great deal to monitor But as we get into the afternoon, we've got the trade balance number coming out at 130 Um, and we've got pending home sales At three o'clock. You've got the weekly infantry's Coming out at 330 and with that in mind, let's just have a quick look at the Apis from last night. So we're all up to speed The best place to get the apis from a top level Summary is actually zero hedge because they have like a regular way of which they represent the data Which is probably the neatest way to look at it. You just need to grow Scroll back a couple of stories and you're about to find it. So just bear with me for 30 seconds and let me find it. Here you go So these were the numbers last night make it a bit bigger So you've had a crude drawdown of 4.27 million expectations were for a slight build of 500 000 The cushing number Was a build of 1 million expectations were for a drawdown of just shy of that gasoline a build of 3.27 million distillates a drawdown of 141 000 If you actually look at the crude chart from last night Let me just quickly transition my screens and show you So when the data came out, I mean this the the crude market obviously somewhat Replicating the s&p in a sense that as the dust settles on the Shake out at the beginning of the week from the chronovirus that fear about the impact on demand for crude oil products Starts to dissipate with that renewed kind of sentiment being more positive And so you can see here again You target the gap fill on the break of the range And then the data actually that came out last night was this candlestick here You can see then initially was a positive we came back, but we kind of clawed up higher So yeah the infantry levels to be monitored They obviously provide intraday short-term swing in price But I would be looking for too much unless completely outlying. There's a lot of other things going on at the moment globally But the headline draw was 4.27 million Other than that the Fed obviously the highlight of the evening. However I do think that from a trader's point of view what's going to be way more interesting is the Bank of England tomorrow Because it's going to be a bit of a knife edge On the vote and the split is likely to be mixed on whether they will hold or cut I think the Bank of England will be much more interesting than the Fed However, we will be covering that of course in full All right, that's it from my side. Let me hand you over to Sam and I wish you guys a good day. Thanks very much Yeah, hi guys. Good morning. It's getting the the s&p into picture here and Let me just remove a couple of these these lines And uh, yeah yesterday's trade certainly passed the cash open initial blip blower to to come higher A couple of those resistance levels were filled and you can see in early trade today The gap was closed inevitable perhaps I know there's a few people certainly in The second stage of the program that traded that fantastically It was almost like free money watching that go higher and higher a couple of times it did pull back And that was just the opportunity to get it again. What happens now will be key 32 90 and a half is your level to the upside and just keep a watch on that Above there. It's almost like well Monday Tuesday. They didn't happen And therefore that makes the s&p not too far away from the all-time high again Which would be just remarkable to say that after everything that's gone on in 2020 so far You're less than one and a half percent away However, this is a key resistance level and there are plenty of Support points below that if they go things can start to get ugly and you know if we We hold that 3280 level To the downside and you can see we kind of tested it already. So I'd mark that up It is also the friday low as well got messy to be fair. Yes, they even after that first test But I still have it on just a bit below where we're trading horizontally Anyway, 32 72 and a half another point where I'd be looking at if we get a couple of Trend lines, as you know, I can't live without those. It's get those on to drive Through yesterday on the cash open bit of support in that area Around yesterday. I'd have that on as a potential for some support in the mix If we were to come lower And then you know, you are looking at any of these previous highs that could also act as the same thing If we look above where we're trading Again, you've got to quite a lot of these horizontal support points to to keep an eye on I know a few people will will look to get the fibs from the bottom to the top and the top to The bottom vice versa to look for potential areas and and so so bit. Um, I would just Now I've got this on the 15 minute I I'd have your areas marked up like this and I just leave it just leave it until price comes to those points There's no real need to get involved in the mix between 30 to 90 and 80 in that 10-point range Wait for those levels to come in make a decision when it's there fine Does the risk ward make sense and so on But early hours 8 37 is much really going to happen now. Probably not Probably not. Let's have a quick look over at that euro, which on the weekly trend line yesterday we were talking about It's tested it and it's tested it and and went went below early hours again this morning Just bring that in there to keep a watch on that. We've got the fed tonight Do we confirm the week below there because if we do well, what's stopping it going down to that low that we had last year And then, you know, I'm just going to move this out the way the camera low 2017 Where's that markup with not far away as well from there, which would be a multi-year trend line three years in play that goes We'll allow further euro But fed today or this evening, I should say UK time and of course anything can happen there If we just get those trend channels on and we will of course be live on youtube later going through Some of these levels longer term and you know trying to necessarily predict what's going to happen On these points is is not always the the easiest thing but just putting this on the the weekly rough sort of Trend channel on there. You can see that's a bit of a guide you would look to have So in the quieter period today, would you want to get too heavily involved in the euro probably not You can see that trend line here. It's is rough But on that week you'd expect that you can see it still acts as resistance once we have broken through So have that on as a bit of a guide to to price if we do get up there That's a you know a very important line in the sand yesterday's low See about an area where price could be Drifting towards now that s1 getting a bit choppy The previous lows of the day Around one ten forty three got some nice price action there was monday's low We broke through it yesterday to find resistance before eventually breaking through So that's an area to keep an eye on but other really than okay the pivot that point The lows of yesterday in that trend line I'd I'd be awaiting see her for the euro not looking to get too much involved in the dollar before this evening Certainly one of those days where if if it's going slow, there's no need to go chasing the pound We're bringing that that trend line on the on the daily another Session where we were drawn towards it. Let's just get that in and It doesn't want to break yet It does not want to break yet and and make no make no mistake about it They would have been people without a short once that trend line broke inverted commas yesterday and are now worried a bit Remember, it's all about that daily close certainly on this level because just on those lows you can see the importance horizontally of this point from the beginning Was that the end of october 31st october? Interesting day that or wasn't to be uh, then November and then as of course this year as well. So can we get the close below that trend line possibly today? But then of course you've got the uh super fursday bank of england It'll be really interesting where we close the week really interesting and and I think You know put my I don't even think it's necessarily putting your neck out there I've closed below the week there and and we drift lower because you're going to have you know reasons that the Bank of england's Were more dovish than expected and I think we we can get 128 31 by the end of next week If they're if we close above that trend line most likely they've been hawkish and I don't see much stopping a 132 it's a wait and see for the pound As simple as that whether you want to get involved too much in the morning now No, it's up to you But there's a nice resistance point around 130 60 good price action there And of course that trend line keeper watch on that. We are starting to get these lows Does it mark up as a trend line? Yeah, it does. Look at that. Lovely one two three people watch on that as well Oil putting this on the longer term chart. Have we found the bottom? Have we found the bottom? What do people think uh for oil? Let me know in training live and youtube Drawing this horizontally on those lows I think people would have perhaps expected a bit more to to come down and be attracted to this area between sort of 51 bucks and The low that we made I don't necessarily think we're we're out the woods just yet Let's have a quick look at some potential levels intraday that are important You know if we bring in those pivot points again, which I like having on get a trend line on from those lows and just For later on perhaps Just looking at these levels for where price could Eventually hold up the gap has been filled in early trade just like the s&p So the next kind of points to keep aware of will be any of these previous lows or highs as an area of resistance Whether oil has found that low or not Remains to be seen but certainly 51 to 52 is a very important point On the futures market There are one the high from Friday evening looks to be like a decent enough resistance level 55 16 would be an ideal place I'd like to to get in just on that breakdown that we had back on the 24th As well quick look over gold to to wrap it before looking at the the dax gold drifted down yesterday broke through the Level support there's a couple people that took the short on here and this is a really good lesson I'm going to go through quickly you get gold pushing lower breaks the low of the day breaks Mondays area support the gap And it's about now. Where do you get in for the retest? You got the s1 Which would attract people but where did this move really start and you can argue It's a break of these areas of support here where the the selling pressure keeps on so if I'm going to short s1 I want my stock above there Which would probably you know to be too big and rightly so so for me if s1 worked fine I don't want it, you know missed that opportunity But my risk of water is intact next area you're looking at is the low from Monday or even from What would have been today yesterday? But then the stock probably again is a bit too big and you can see what happens It comes to s1 and you know go straight through gets a bit choppy But it's not really until it comes to those levels there and just putting this on that Five minutes. I've got that area wrong here. You can see where that selling comes over price comes back and and You know both s1 yesterday's low the day before that's low don't work And and that's when you get that real push from so it's a good lesson Just keeping an eye where did that selling start from why can't that happen again and gold since then has pushed lower So and that level comes on the r1 today's keeper a watch on that pivot looks pretty key below where we're trading You mean you can see why today's lows. I mean this is just what I just said the other way around Where did the buying start on the 24th once you broke these areas of support big push through comes back and finds A level support there as well. So you got three big levels for me for gold 1583.3 1576.8 And 1568.2 a couple trend lines on those lows as well probably to have marked up and where does that third test come in You guessed it today's low to have a look at the Dax as quickly now gone through that open 45 minutes up down in the middle Undecided on it on where it wants to go what it wants to do Choppy on the 60 minute That gap hasn't been filled if us stocks decide to run away at any point people watch on on this would be My advice. Hope you all have a good trading day Catch us on youtube later and I look forward to catching up with all of you later


Drew, you're gonna learn something today. These people are gonna learn something. What are we learning? We're gonna learn 10 FPV trends that die. Die. And two more that need to die. Hey guys, welcome to Rotorite. I'm the drip. And I am Joshua Bardwell. As far as I know, I'm still a Rotorite cast member. It's getting harder and harder to keep episodes with other people in them coming out. Whatever, we're getting creative. We'll find ways to keep the content going. So we're talking about things that you guys may or may not even be aware that came and went in the FPV world. Things are always changing in FPV. As such, there are certain things that have come in real hot and just kind of disappeared. Some of them were just a terrible idea to begin with. But others were the best possible solution. And then finally something that came along. Well, you'll see, you'll see. Bardwell, what's our first FPV trend that died? The first FPV trend that died on this list is soft-mounted motors. And I think this is the best one we could start with because I'm not a hundred percent sure that this trend wasn't a troll to begin with. Okay, so the idea here is that your motors vibrate, your props vibrate, and those vibrations make it to your flight controller and your FPV drone isn't going to be able to fly as smoothly as possible. So there are still ways that we try to reduce those vibrations for making it to their gyro, both physical solutions like soft-mounting your flight controller and software solutions like filters built into the flight control software. But along the way, one of the things that people were doing was soft-mounting their motors themselves. So on January 13th, 2017, none other than Johnny FPV posted a video to YouTube called The Secret to a Perfect Flying Drone, soft-mounting motors. And you gotta listen to Johnny. If you guys aren't aware who Johnny is, you're under a rock because even people outside of the FPV world have heard of Johnny. You've seen his videos. There's some of the most spectacular, amazing visual masterpieces ever.  And at one point he said, the secret to being as good as him is just soft-mounting motors. And he showed how you could take some strips of electrical tape, put them underneath your motors, and that provides enough soft-mounting. There was a whole lot of debate. People were arguing whether one piece of electrical tape was good enough, whether it was two pieces, whether what kind of electrical tape. I even made a video where I tested a quad with and without soft-mounting and I showed that soft-mounting does in fact reduce the amount of noise getting to the gyro. But you're not kidding. The amount of effort and time and agonizing that people were putting into this, like no joke, they were comparing different brands of electrical tape. Now here's why this trend died. Soft-mounting motors adds complexity. If you screw the screws down too tight, then the soft-mounting isn't effective.  So this was a big deal. And we saw that happen to people. And the other thing I saw is that flight controllers started coming with gummies, like almost all flight controllers today come with gummies. Yes. And they're basically already soft-mounted. I believe is really important. I don't even consider flight controllers that don't have the soft-mounting built in. To me, that's one of the greatest little tweaks that came about that made the biggest difference that I could tell. So here's the takeaway with filtering and soft-mounting. You want enough, but more than enough is too much. You don't need it. And these days, especially with modern frames and modern flight control software, if you have gummies on your flight controller, you probably don't need to soft-mount your motors. Soft-mounting your motors can work, but it also adds a lot of problems. And it is a trend that we're glad to see go. To this day, I'm not sure whether Johnny just said to Willie, I'll bet if I release a video saying this is the secret to a perfect flying drone, the whole world. 126,000 views, Drew. I still think Johnny might've just been trolling us. The secret to making the greatest FPV films ever. That's the thing. Johnny, like, why does Johnny's drone fly so good? Because he's Johnny! He's a frickin' phenom. He's not like, you know what, if I'm clutch flying like crap, let me put some tape on the motors. Oh my God, it's so good. I think he was trolling. Okay, the next one is six-bladed props. Believe it or not, this was actually a thing for a minute. People had props that had six blades to them. So for a long while, two-bladed props were like the only thing. And then three-bladed props came out. And oh my God, it's so much better. The cornering, the grip, the acceleration. So if three's better than two, then four must be better than three. And some people do prefer four. And let's just keep going. And before long, we had six-bladed props. I mean, here's the premise. Is that as you add more blades, you basically get like better cornering. That's kind of what happens, all those being equal. A three-blade prop corner better, a four-blade prop corner even better, but you get a little bit less top end because there's more drag. And you also, the props just become super fragile. The more blades you have, the easier it is to break a blade and have the prop be out of balance. So I feel like there just must have been a law of diminishing returns. So it did fly, right? Like, did you ever actually see, I mostly saw pictures of them. I don't recall seeing videos of people actually flying. I just remember seeing tons of pictures of six-bladed props. No, they flew, but if you think about it, like you got the hub. Yeah. And then all the props are stuck into the hub. And the connection points are super thin. Right. And then the minute you crash, the whole thing is just junk. And it's just like, you don't, nobody needs that much grip in the corners. It was overkill. The next FPV trend that died is super high rates. Now, I'm not saying that high rates are dead. There are still a ton of pilots out there that do really impressive tricks. They're, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. But they could be better if they use lower rates. No, no, that's not what I was saying. Super high rates. Why do you hate people who use super high rates? What's wrong with super high rates? No, because I'm not talking about what we're seeing today where there's still a good amount of snaps.  It was actually a problem you see on the forums of people asking, okay, I'm spinning so fast, the gyro can't keep up, what do I have to do? And then, do you remember that? And then they were actually talking about writing code into Betaflight where it would detect if you were spinning so fast that it would kind of like shut the gyro off for a second. And like, it would go into just like, kind of like a manual mode where like full stick was just like, like full thrust. Yeah, I remember that. The original, there was a time, oh man, you're bringing back memories. Right, because it was like a problem they were trying to solve. When you went to full stick, the flight controller would basically shut down the PID loop, and instead of trying to hit a target angular rate, it would just put the left motors to full and the right motors to zero and spin the quad as fast as it flipping could. Yeah, they don't do that anymore. No, well, because no one's trying to spin that fast anymore. And I mean, maybe- No one needs to spin that fast. Yeah, no one needs to spin. It was like 2,000 degrees per second. I mean, it was, it was insane. And I remember one of the first times I flew with other people, it was the most terrifying sound. I pulled off my goggles, because he just went, it was like, blah! Like it was doing just one of those deaths, death scream, death howl. And I guess there is almost something like mechanically impressive about it. When you see the quad just go like, blah! Like there is something to it. But as far as actual FPV, I mean, you're so exceeding what you can visually see. It's like when a guitarist solos as fast as he possibly can. And instead of being something musical, it's just like a noise of notes battering you in the face. Yeah.  And that's why I think this trend died. Because people think faster is more impressive, but eventually you get to a point where your fingers can't keep up. And you have no precision on the sticks. And I think people are just over trying to impress others by moving the stick all the way one way and the quad is going 3,000 degrees per second, just something crazy. And they're actually doing tricks and flying with more purpose and not just showing like what the machine is capable of. It's more about what you're, cause just spinning that fast that shows off what the motors and the flight controller can do. But what you can actually do as a pilot, I think people are bringing it down. But like I said, there's still high rate pilots, but I think they're at a more reasonable place of like 1,200, maybe 1,300 degrees per second. That's still pretty high. That's still pretty high, but it's not 2,000 or 3,000. I fly it, I'm at 900. Yeah. I'm at 900. I used to be at 11, I came down to nine. I think overall people are lowering the range of people as it's seven. All right, seven is a little slow. What do you fly it? Well, mine are super weird. Mine's at 850 on roll, 690 on pitch, and like 400 on yaw. I don't know. Whoa, that's super weird. And my yaw is linear. It's a weird one. I want to introduce the next one. This one is near and dear to my heart. Integrating your PDV or your OSD or your flight controller into the frame stack. Kids these days don't remember. Do you remember the ZMR 250? Yeah, it was one of the first cheap five inch frames. Yeah, and one of the coolest things about it was that it made the build so much easier. You could buy a version of it. One of the frame plates itself wasn't carbon fiber. It was a large PDV. It was a large circuit board. And you could solder your ESCs and your camera and your video transmitter and all this stuff to the frame itself, because the frame was made out of a circuit board. It was super, it seemed like such a good idea. And then it broke, because you crash. You can't flex. You can't flex circuit boards over and over again. And they would just break constantly. And components popped off. And then you'd have to take your whole quadcopter apart because your bottom plate was your flight controller or your OSD and you have to just tear the whole thing apart and replace it and it was super expensive. It was a bad idea. But I think having surface mount components is where that really breaks down because one of the most popular frames that had some level of PDV integration is the alien. The inner plate of the alien is actually a PDV with press nuts integrated. Impulse kind of kept that alive in a sense for a long time. The difference was they didn't have any surface mount components. That PDV was purely just a power in ground. So there's really just two layers of copper and that flexing isn't going to crack any thin traces or flex off any surface mounted components. So it worked really well on the alien. But ultimately you saw that impulse with the reverb and the PDVs they offered for that weren't structural anymore. It was a separate piece that taped onto the frame. That's the takeaway. Electronic components should not be structural. Yes. And structural components should not have integrated electronics. Yeah. Not on a quadcopter that's gonna crash. The next FPV trend that died. This one, we put it on the list almost as an homage to the sort of forefathers of FPV. Cause this was before all of our time. It is making FPV goggles out of ski goggles. Yes.  People were piecing together FPV goggles out of what they could. And one of the ways to get good seal around the face where you wouldn't have light leakage between your eye and the screen was to retrofit some type of screen, whether it was a screen or an existing display that's meant to be worn over your eye into ski goggles. So people were taking ski goggles, cutting the lens, blacking it out, fitting the display into the cut, sealing it with like silicone and whatnot. And that was at the time, I think that was one of the coolest options, right? The alternative was like having a literal box on your head. But what were they using? I mean, the only one I remember were the cinemizers. The Zeiss cinemizers, yes. The Zeiss cinemizers. And I don't think everyone was doing that because they were really pricey. I have to believe you. I think I remember seeing a picture, Tim Nielsen of the get a FPV founder and he's got like ski goggles cinemizers. Maybe we can find a picture of that picture. But that was kind of this weird thing where they were taking this really expensive consumer product and then hacking them into ski goggles with hot glue and silicone. But that was, I mean, you were the cool kid. You were flying FPV and that makes you super cool. And it was a trend because it was way better than using a monitor on a tripod or using some crazy box goggle. But then finally we started getting goggles like Fat Sharks. We finally got purpose made goggles that met our needs. Another trend that died, that's another bit of a history lesson is tricopters. Long before quadcopters became just the norm. I mean, quads are, that's what a drone is now. People were experimenting with different variations. One of the most popular ones back in the day was a tricopter. What made a tricopter so interesting, there weren't enough motors that you could just control the machine with thrust differentials. You actually had to put one of the motors on a tilting mechanism to get yaw out of it.  So you could push current through a motor and spin it up pretty quickly. But then when you wanted it to slow down, it couldn't slow down. It was just basically air drag slowed it down. And that meant that the yaw performance of a quadcopter was very, very poor because the motors could spin up only as fast as the motors spun down or the quad would get destabilized. And if you tried to make abrupt yaw moves, the quad would just kind of completely lose itself. But then tricopters were kind of the ultimate answer to that. You just tilt the motor and you get yaw. And there are still tricopter fans out there who love the kind of swooshy way that they fly. I mean, it's cool. No, they're cool. When I, I love the sound of them. I love the look of them. I think they're awesome. They just fly like garbage. Compared to modern. Compared to modern. Drones. So you're absolutely right. You know, what you're talking through is this history where tricopters actually were supreme for a brief shining moment. Tricopters did outperform drones in the air because of that superior yaw performance. The disadvantage they always had was that mechanical complexity. In a crash, you had more moving parts that tended to break. And I mean, we can't talk about tricopters. Have we even said, hey, we even say David Vindistall yet? David Vindistall. I mean, that was like the tricopter king. So all on the way, they were, gosh, that yaw performance was so good, but eventually flight control software, ESC technology caught up. And now ESCs and flight controllers are capable of starting and stopping the motors so quickly that you can get really, really good yaw performance out of a quadcopter. And people reach out to me sometimes and say, hey, I want to build a tricopter and I'm just like, don't. I mean, it's an enthusiast's drone. If you, if you love tricopters and you want to build them. Like there's classic car owners, you know? Like that, that you want to drive the old carbureted engine. And yeah, it's a pain in the butt. And if it's, if it's cold and you can't start and you got to tune it and all this stuff, but, but carburetor, man, carburetor, if you're an enthusiast about carburetors, maybe a tricopter's for you. If you want a good flying quad, don't build a tricopter. The next FPV trend that died is glass nylon props. Kids, do you like crashing and then taking off again without changing your props? Do you like coming back from a day of flying without having spent $15, $20 on new props? Then you don't, you should not like glass nylon props. You should be very thankful that glass nylon props have finally been outmatched. This was the plastic blend of props that was, it was the thing that the pros used because they did fly so much nicer than every other prop available. They had just this certain stiffness and lightness. The disadvantages, they were super fragile. Joshua is not exaggerating that every crash. If you touched a branch, they would explode. Just even a contact. There was no black power through the scraggler.  Like zero percent chance. Oh my God, bending. I'm gonna bend my prop back, snap. It's not that that was the only thing available. There always were more durable prop options and I actually never really got into the glass nylon thing. At the time when I was flying, where my skill level was at and all that stuff, I never really bought into the glass nylon. I was flying the durable props that were available. On the rare occasion that I did fly a glass nylon prop, the performance was just inarguably better. And it's easy to forget how spoiled we are today because freestyle pilots today assume that if you crash, you're gonna be able to turtle mode.    None of that was possible. No, no, we're so lucky that finally they figured out some new plastic blends that allow props to be durable and high performance. So now we're flying props that are gonna fly amazing. They're smooth, they're thrusty, they're lightweight, and they have that durability. Yeah, I remember I used to fly, this was back when I flew 3S, six inch. Oh yeah, that's a trend. And I was flying these six inch King Kong props, six inch King Kong 6040 by blades, and they were okay. And I switched to the HQ 6040 and they were, oh my God, so much better. Going to a proper glass nylon, just it was incredible back in the day. $25, a buck 25, a prop. Every time I crashed, I was spending like $3. Yeah. 25 times. Yeah, that really made it. 250. You know every crash. Every time I crashed, 250, 250. I'd come back and I'd be like, oh my God, I just spent $25 in props. And that's a lot of money when you're not a professional doing this for a living. The next FPV trend that died, I don't think this was even ever a trend, but I think it has to be on the list is 3D. We're not, no, we're not talking, we're not talking about 3D flying.  She will not let 3D flying die. No, we're talking about stereoscopic 3D FPV. I gotta tell you Drew, I'm not even sure this was a trend, although I like having it in the video because like there were like two or three maybe cameras out there that supported 3D and like almost nobody ever bought them. A few people have reached out to me over the years and said, hey, if we tried 3D, it's kind of cool. And I've been like, no, not really. And then that's just it. I don't think this was ever really a trend. I feel like it's the exact definition of a trend where it came. I feel like there was excitement around it. There was some following and then it just never really grabbed on. So the idea was people started thinking that it might be cool to fly with 3D video. It might help their proximity. They could actually see depth. Think the idea is pretty sound. But to accomplish this, what you have to do is you have to provide each eye with a separate video coming from two cameras that are offset. That's what stereoscopic 3D video is.  It's a trick that works very well. It's how 3D movies work actually. There are a couple of problems with this. One of the problems is technical. You either need two cameras and two video transmitters and then you need a set of goggles with two receivers. Yes, you need each eye. So Skyzone goggles actually, that's how they do 3D. Skyzone does it that way. Right. Fatshark goggles only have one receiver and the way they'll do it is they'll do every other scan line or they'll split the screen down the middle vertically, it depends on the transmitter. And the problem with that is that you lose half your resolution. So you're already crappy standard definition, low resolution feed is now half resolution.  But the real problem I think, and I've heard this from people who have actually flown this, is that the separation of the cameras to get close to human vision, you need so many inches of separation and on a mini quad you tend to get much, much less separation than that. And so you don't actually get a very strong stereoscopic effect. Did you ever fly 3D FPV? I did. I did actually because I did. I was kind of a late adopter to Fatsharks. I started FPV on Skyzones. You did. And stuck with Skyzones for a while. And Skyzones as you said, had a 3D function built in because the Skyzone goggles had built in diversity. It is, it's a cool gimmick. The reality of it is you're not always that close to things. There's still multiple feet of distance between you and the object. And you really don't see that 3D effect until it's like right there anyway. I still don't know that it would be worth having to buy dedicated goggles for all that. All right. The next trend. Angled motor mounts. So pilots were angling their motors forward to get more forward flight. Why were they doing it? So at the time we didn't have so many dedicated FPV cameras available to buy. Pilots were using like board cameras and the way oftentimes those board cameras were mounted to frames was like vertically on a piece of vertical carbon.  Camera tilt hadn't really come around yet. It wasn't really accepted. It wasn't really mainstream yet. Only a few pilots were figuring out ways to actually tilt the cameras. So what they started doing instead was oh, let's tilt the motors forward. And that's how we'll be able to fly forward. I remember those early frames, they'd have a notch cut in the top plate and you could do your board camera straight up and down or you could tilt it like 15 degrees. And that was just it. Oh, that was crazy. You could go five or 15 degrees, right? But that was pretty much your one or two options. So if you wanted to go faster, you couldn't tilt the camera more. You couldn't pitch forward because then you couldn't see where you were going.  And it did work. But there were some problems. One of the problems is that when you take the motors off the plane of sort of rotation, you get coupling between the axes. Right. And the flight controller gets a little bit confused. Well, what I did see people doing was they would actually then angle the flight controller too to compensate. So they angle the flight controller so that the flight controller was on level with the motors. If you didn't, then the coupling you got would upset the flight controller. I guess another potential advantage of that approach is it lets you move faster with less up tilt so you get less drag, less wind resistance. Okay, there's something to that. I mean, that's legit, but nobody's doing this anymore. It died. So tilting things kind of leads into the next FPV trend which is the camera couch. The camera couch. The faster you're going, the more angle that you have, the more that your recording camera ends up looking at the ground. So we started looking for ways, okay, how do you angle up your HD camera? So one of the first solutions that pilots came up with was a camera couch where they were putting their camera on some sort of wedge, usually like a piece of foam and then strapping it down. And that's how they were angling up their camera.  I'd like to remind everybody that this was before the days of 3D printing. You just went out to the barn and you worked with what you had. What? Oh, you used the, you used what? Oh my gosh, you used wood. That is a piece of wood. That's amazing. You're trying that. Yes, I heard what you did there. You changed the tone to be less zip ties and wood baby, wood. And look at the wood bumper down on the, oh my gosh, that's wood baby. That's a couch. There's some ingenuity there. That camera's a relic too. I mean, there's a trend, the Mobius, right? The Mobius camera. I mean, now we're all using, you know, Go-Pros or Go-Pro sessions or either using cubes or kind of more of the vertical rectangle cameras, but the flat camera was a thing for a minute. I sometimes still think that there's some, there's something to be said for that, but that's pretty much gone now. I mean, it just takes up so much space on the top plate. But that was a more, it's just, it was a more common camera at the time to have this flat camera. So you really, I mean, there's long couches. If you couldn't afford a Go-Pro, that's just what you got was the Mobius. Honestly, I think the wood, there's something to be said for your wood couch there because I feel like the wood's gonna be a lot less prone to camera ejections. And that's the biggest disadvantage of the camera couch.  But then when you crash, you're just relying on a strap to keep your camera from going flying. So now we have access to a plethora of 3D printed anything we could want for any camera we want and most people have got 3D printed. The advent of durable 3D printed parts killed camera couches because now- No one uses camera couches anymore. No, there's still some holdouts. There's still some holdouts. Van Over was using a camera couch because he had it in his, this guy, Van Over is one of those guys that he just gets things in his head that he's convinced and one day he'll just say, I think something about 3D printed mounts, vibrations or something.  And then what did we see that day? We're looking for his camera in tall grass with a freaking metal detector. And I don't know if he- That's a big advantage. Just losing the camera scarred him but he went back to 3D printed mounts pretty quickly. After that, I- Yep, 3D printed mount screwed to the frame or strapped to the frame. That's the way to do it. I got an extra piece I wanna do for this video which is I got a couple trends in mind that need to die. They haven't died yet, but they need to die. Okay. And the first one is gonna be, we've been seeing a bunch of quads- And a long, and a long FPV. It needs to go. It needs to go. Can we just get everyone on that digital hype already? Come on, baby. Are you done? I- Rotorite.com. DJI Digital FPV available now. So speaking of camera mounting, I've been seeing a ton of quads nowadays coming out with this GoPro, like just a GoPro screw mount. And I think what did that, two things did that. Number one, the Hero 8 came out and it has built-in little clips for that mount and Cinewops started using it and Cinewops commonly need adjustable up tilt so you wouldn't wanna put a fixed up tilt 3D printed mount on your Cinewops. But Cinewops don't crash as much as freestyle quads. And I've seen some people start designing freestyle frames with that screw-in GoPro mount. Stop it. Do not do that. That is a terrible idea. We have been down that road. We know what's down that road now. Yeah, that's a trend that's come back because that was a thing. Like alongside with the camera couches, people were trying to use the stock GoPro mount. The thing that comes with it is just a little stick-on thing, sticking it to the top of their frame and mounting it that way. Literally sticking it on. They're pretty tough, but they're not durable by our standards where you're crashing into walls. So nowadays, at least, you don't have to use the camera case anymore. You save a little bit of weight, but still, just stop it. Stop doing that. I mean, it sort of makes sense for the Cinewops. It sort of makes sense for the Cinewops because the high range of adjustability is more important than durability because you don't crash Cinewops the same way that you crash five-inch freestyle drones. The same could be said for even like a larger cinema-based platform, like a seven-inch, maybe a long-range quad or something. Something that's meant to do, like filming where you're not gonna be crashing, but on freestyle or race frames, doing the GoPro mount with this thumb screw thing, not a good idea. So I agree that's an FPV trend that needs to die. What's the next FPV trend that you think needs to die? There's one more. There's one more. We're gonna keep this video positive, but there's one more trend that needs to go, and it's so- And a long FPV needs to die. Can we just stop already with it? Listen, I'm not saying analog is dead. So I'm being very clear about that because I get it. There's only one company right now that makes HD, and you don't have the same sort of product selection. So I get why it's not dead yet, but I think ultimately I wanna see more companies making HD FPV. I wanna see HD FPV get smaller. I just wanna see HD FPV keep getting better and better, and eventually I wanna see analog FPV die. Just can we all- You turned it around. There we go. You turned it around. You know, when you first said it, I assumed you were about to shill for DJI, but you didn't. No.  And I think that when you look at the technologies that are coming out, whether it's DJI or it's Fat Shark Bite Frost, I think it's clear that analog's days are numbered, and I think it's clear that digital is the way of the future.  I get it. If there's other gear that you wanna use that's smaller, lighter, you wanna support it, like that's fine. I'm not arguing against that, but I do look forward to more HD options coming out. And I think that that is what is going to happen. There is one trend in FPV that is so pernicious.  Drift videos. People, you need to stop chasing drift cars with your quads. If you're gonna chase a drift car, I'm tired of it. If you're gonna chase a drift car, you better be Johnny FPV.  Chase them all you want. Just don't upload it to the internet. I don't wanna see it. Just stop. Stop posting it to the YouTube. That is probably the most, I don't wanna say overdone, but the most done FPV thing. It's overdone. We all say it's overdone. The first time I saw a drift FPV, I was like, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. And then the 57th time I saw it, I was like, okay, I think I've seen this before. And then I saw a few really good pilots do it. And I was like, oh, I see. There's levels here. And then I saw 57 more people do it badly. And I was just like, okay, just do something else. I don't know if it's gonna go away, Bartle. I think the drift FPV is, it's so common. It's almost become its own genre. We got FPV racing. We got FPV freestyle. We got Cinewhip and we got drifting. It's just a thing now. You know, another trend that needs to die? Flight videos with like 20 minutes of vlogging beforehand, am I right? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We're gonna need to wrap this one up before. Bartle's on a mission now. We're gonna need to wrap this one up, guys. So, well, that is gonna do it for this video. Those are 10 FPV trends that came and thank God went a few we remember finally. Some were glad to see go and some you never even knew existed. Let us know down in the comments, what do you think we should have put on this list? What do we overlook? If you say, Rota Riot died, I swear to God, I will ban you. He's not kidding. Hit the like button. Subscribe to the freaking channel. Leave a comment, shop at store.rotariot.com and we will see you on the flip side. That's what people say, right? That's a trend that needs to go. Ha, ha, ha.