While many of us might drool over powerful high-flying drones like those from DJI, Yuneec and 3D Robotics, most of us will be flying less expensive radio-controlled multirotor toys made to zip around your living room or backyard for a few minutes at a time until you inevitably crash or get stuck in a tree. …

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Periscope and Facebook may be the go-to services for the moment when it comes to broadcasting live mobile video. But live-streaming social network Livit is using the explosion of interest in everything VR to carve out its own spot. Livit is similar to what the Twitter-owned Periscope and Facebook Live Video deliver, but it’s tough to compete with two of …

Blame the media. Blame Google search. Blame lazy marketing. But just like hoverboards that don’t actually hover, everything you view in Google Cardboard or Samsung Gear VR or any number of other VR headsets is not necessarily “virtual reality.” But, it’s too late to go back now. VR is the catch-all name for all manner of things experienced with goggles …

To show just what’s possible when you use your iPhone to livestream from a GoPro camera using Periscope, GoPro will be streaming a dive with some great hammerhead sharks. The event is happening today at noon ET (9 a.m. PT, 5 p.m. UK) with GoPro athletes Jeb Corliss and Roberta Mancino. Corliss says they hope to have anywhere from three …

Before 2015, it took expensive professional equipment made up of multiple, separate cameras and powerful computers and software to create immersive video like the kind Google Maps shows in its Street View mode. Enter the smartphone, which has forced camera, processor and sensor technology to shrink so quickly that small, 360-degree cameras became not only possible, but affordable. The first …

You unpacked your shiny new DJI Phantom 3 drone, took it outside and immediately sent it careening into a tree or your house, leaving you weeping over a pile of plastic bits that was once a quadcopter. It happens, and DJI knows this, so it’s now offering damage insurance when you buy a new Phantom 3 or Inspire 1 V2.0 …

Just in case you were considering flying your camera-toting quadcopter — or any other model aircraft — around Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl 50, don’t. Just don’t. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a temporary flight restriction (TFR) prohibiting flying of unmanned aerial systems within a 32-nautical-mile radius of the big game on Sunday. The FAA even made the short …

Golf likely isn’t a sport most would associate with GoPro’s versatile little cameras, but that all could change with its new collaboration with the PGA Tour. Starting with the Waste Management Phoenix Open on February 3, views from GoPro cameras will be integrated into live golf coverage. The PGA Tour will also stream the Pro-Am from the 16th hole at …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: Intel shows intelligent drone with Real Sense tech 2:11 With so many drone expos popping up throughout the year, I don’t know that CES will ever become the place …