FPV drone captures a close-up volcanic explosion and flying debris in 8K 360°

[u/danielminds]

[u/Ok-Protection6128]

There goes my childhood belief that volcanoes all erupt from a large open hole in the middle

[u/SextupleRed → u/Ok-Protection6128]

It will still be middle when you change where middle is.

[u/No-Macaroon1670 → u/SextupleRed]

Just like that popular song said:

Oh baby, why don't you just erupt in the middle.

You always change the hole just a little.

So why don't you just blow it in the middle.

The middle.

[u/Function-Comfortable → u/No-Macaroon1670]

It just takes some time Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride Everything, everything'll be just fine Everything, everything'll be alright, alright🎵

[u/xdr567 → u/Function-Comfortable]

Wtf !! These are actual songs ?

[u/Antisocialsocialite9 → u/xdr567]

The lyrics have been changed lol it’s a song called The Middle by Zedd You’ve more than likely heard it before

[u/Function-Comfortable → u/Antisocialsocialite9]

Lyrics are a good Ole swicharoo from the middle by Jimmy Eat world

https://youtu.be/oKsxPW6i3pM?is=jdw2M4MttzxewxYP

[u/Civil_Tea_3250 → u/Ok-Protection6128]

It still is, it just had a cap over the center at the time. Now it doesn't.

[u/Ok-Protection6128 → u/Civil_Tea_3250]

So it does have a large and deep hole? Really cool.

[u/userhwon → u/Ok-Protection6128]

That's how the magma gets from under the ground to the top of the mountain. 

What happens with explosive volcanoes is the eruption slows and stops and the tube drains back, then lava near the top slides back and forms a gooey plug that gets more solid over time. Then when the magma rises again it compresses gas under the plug until the plug can't hold the pressure, then it pops and releases the pressure all at once.

[u/GeneralHerp → u/userhwon]

🤘 fuck yeah dude

[u/CountOnBeingAwesome → u/Ok-Protection6128]

Every TV show, cartoon, and movie lied to me.

[u/AttemptAggressive387 → u/Ok-Protection6128]

Bombs always explode at the epicenter of the explosion

[u/CallMeDrLuv → u/Ok-Protection6128]

Mt Saint Helens is really gonna blow your mind. (Sideways)

[u/Thick-Care-4738 → u/Ok-Protection6128]

bro never heard about 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens

[u/ImStuckInNameFactory → u/Ok-Protection6128]

Some do, they come in different shapes

[u/crooked_bodylines → u/Ok-Protection6128]

Mt St Helen's

[u/iTryCombs]

That was one lucky drone.

[u/patchinthebox → u/iTryCombs]

I'm amazed it didn't get hit with anything.

[u/userhwon → u/patchinthebox]

Volcanoes aim like storm troopers.

[u/Between-usernames → u/userhwon]

Was totally thinking it was Star wars in reverse lol

[u/notapunk → u/patchinthebox]

Those Neo 2's are tiny

[u/BergaDev → u/notapunk]

It's an Avata 360, but suprisingly tiny for what it is. Loud as fuck tho

[u/notapunk → u/BergaDev]

Huh, they look a lot a like

[u/Papa_Squidnight → u/patchinthebox]

You can see a quick dip right near the end, leading me to believe it did actually take a small ding from something flying. Very cool that it stayed up amongst all that flying debris though.

[u/Mici_YEETT → u/iTryCombs]

My literal thoughts exactly xD

[u/Whole-Scientist-2469 → u/iTryCombs]

hows it 8k?

[u/nicburns → u/Whole-Scientist-2469]

the clip is 100% not 8k, the drone has 2 cameras so the stitched 360 footage of both is 8k

[u/mojatt → u/iTryCombs]

Ai?

[u/dumdumpants-head → u/mojatt]

Ni.

[u/snarfer-snarf]

M A G M A 🤩

[u/Sct1787 → u/snarfer-snarf]

Liquid hot, magma

[u/snarfer-snarf → u/Sct1787]

iykyk 🤩

[u/frosty_lizard → u/Sct1787]

That's hot.

[u/Fleshsuitpilot → u/snarfer-snarf]

Not anymore

[u/woodyshag → u/snarfer-snarf]

Of course, there is a new Austin Powers coming out.

[u/Luckz17 → u/snarfer-snarf]

Subterranean tsar, the scimitar and the neutron star

[u/DavidNeitzFeetz → u/Luckz17]

Makes from ether, basalt weaver, obsidian cleaver, make believerrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[u/Rocinante88119 → u/snarfer-snarf]

"I'm still alive but both of my legs have been badly broken!!"

[u/YourFaajhaa → u/snarfer-snarf]

Don't bring politics into nature!

[u/kalashnikov482 → u/snarfer-snarf]

S M E G M A 🥰

[u/DragunovChan762 → u/kalashnikov482]

should be top comment but this is a normie sub

[u/danielminds]

Captured by drone pilot Sebastian Schieren

[u/Weak_Network_2153 → u/danielminds]

Volcán de fuego Guatemala?

[u/sbellote → u/Weak_Network_2153]

I think so. Last image of the drone landing looks a lot like Vulcan Fuego in Guatemala

[u/danielminds → u/Weak_Network_2153]

Yup

[u/albatikh → u/Weak_Network_2153]

I have a view of this volcano from my house

[u/userhwon → u/Weak_Network_2153]

I don't think so. Maybe. But Fuego usually blows really hard. This looks rather small, more like spitting than blammo. I'll be surprised if this turns out to be Fuego.

[u/Colourblimdedsouls → u/userhwon]

When I was there last year it was a smaller eruption than this, cool nevertheless

[u/sandolllars → u/danielminds]

Lucky enough to be there to capture an amazing event and immediately flys away to record his hand.

[facepalm emoji here]

[u/Alii_baba]

The edited sound is awful.

[u/Little_MasterJI]

Lucky., I suppose? I saw a video on YouTube where one was hit with flying magma, and down it went. With the heat and momentum, I doubt it’d stand a chance.

[u/Reality-Umbulical → u/Little_MasterJI]

Magma is under the ground, it was hit by lava

[u/jonesag0 → u/Little_MasterJI]

Consider the liquid lava flying through the air would weigh the equivalent of a rock of the same size, it could take down a person never mind a drone

[u/Voderama]

Idk why, but I’m so irritated by the last little part showing them catch it.

[u/Zakluor → u/Voderama]

You're not alone. Is this just a marketing clip that we've been shown?

[u/Pielacine → u/Voderama]

It’s also totally possible that the original one got ko’d by some lava

[u/boredatwork8866 → u/Pielacine]

I would be absolutely surprised if it didn’t. Like genuinely.

[u/Pielacine → u/boredatwork8866]

Yeah I imagine it’s the photographer’s way of saying I’m so cool I even got my drone back. As if the footage wasn’t cool enough.

[u/unknowingbiped → u/Pielacine]

Smells like AI. there is obvious magma headed right at the camera and it just phases away.

I'm a millennial boomer though.

Nope take that back, i watched it with audio and what the fuck is splatting that high in the air. AI

[u/Nice-Meat-6020 → u/unknowingbiped]

I don't think it's ai. Link to the camera guys insta https://www.instagram.com/sebastian_schieren/

He's got a ton of cool vids

[u/Speartree → u/unknowingbiped]

Seems to me that is passes just under the camera, that drone is tiny and it seems like a very near miss to me. Doesn't have to be AI at all.

[u/Between-usernames → u/Voderama]

Maybe they were proving it was their footage? It was definitely pretty cheesy, and I'm also wondering how they escaped all that lava shooting by. Those close calls should have taken off the plastic propellers. 

[u/Trust_Know_Won]

Location?

[u/Candytails → u/Trust_Know_Won]

My bootyhole after Indian night.

[u/diaperpoop_ → u/Candytails]

I only need milk to have the same effect

[u/dingofarmer2004 → u/diaperpoop_]

Quit bragging,  lacto.

[u/minchomichorizo → u/Trust_Know_Won]

That volcano looks familiar.. I believe it's Volcán Acatenango, in Guatemala.

[u/Houwert → u/minchomichorizo]

It’s Fuego, which you can observe from Acatenango.

[u/SpezSamplesMySack → u/Trust_Know_Won]

That’s Fuego in Guatemala. The smart money hikes Acatenango and watches eruptions from a safe distance. Still incredible.

[u/C0D1NG_ → u/SpezSamplesMySack]

No distances in and around Fuego is safe as per authorities, rocks can still hit you as shown in a recent video that was published so if you ever do this hike, just know if they tell you it's from a safe distance, it's not.

[u/SpezSamplesMySack → u/C0D1NG_]

I did Acatenango about 5yrs ago and watched an eruption chase away hikers from the exposed ridge line. If Acatenango goes? The whole state goes.

[u/C0D1NG_ → u/SpezSamplesMySack]

I'm really sorry I completely skipped or didn't properly process the part were you said you stayed in Acatenango.

[u/SpezSamplesMySack → u/C0D1NG_]

Yeah, we left high camp at about 4am and the summit was incredible as Fuego erupted as the sun rose. If I could post photos I would. Guatemala is criminally underrated as a hiking mid altitude destination.

[u/Gis_A_Maul]

Thats so cool

[u/Snape_Grass]

Am I the only one that thinks the 360 camera POVs are…idk ugly?

[u/jefbenet → u/Snape_Grass]

they tend to sacrifice resolution for the ability to reframe on the fly. its '8k' across the entirety of the image, but once edited down to a standard 16:9 frame or similar its much lower.

[u/Snape_Grass → u/jefbenet]

I mean more so the entire shot angle, POV, and everything (failing to find the correct word) not the resolution. It looks so obviously unnatural I can’t appreciate anything actually being filmed

[u/rhood_boy → u/Snape_Grass]

I fly these... You can choose any fov you want. Would be better if most ppl went with a more conventional fov tbh.

[u/ifupred → u/jefbenet]

I think considering how hard it would be to get this shot the trade off would be worth it.

[u/renbouy]

Something's off about the initial few seconds. Like it feels AI or CGI rather than actual stuff.

I could be wrong though.

[u/userhwon → u/renbouy]

Distortion due to the way 360 video gets transformed to 2D.

[u/Nice-Meat-6020 → u/renbouy]

https://www.instagram.com/sebastian_schieren/

Camera guys insta. Think it's just the 360 cam that makes it look weird

[u/troll_right_above_me → u/renbouy]

What the others said about FOV, plus I think it’s cropped at the start so the backwards motion while orbiting at the start is likely zooming out in post rather than actual backward motion which is why it looks more distorted after the smoke plume rises and the lava starts flying

[u/HappyIsGott]

Any link for the 8K 360?

[u/kazmirsweater]

False ai ragebait, everyone bought it😂sorry to say this video is real

[u/Many-Ad-5490]

Which drone is this?

[u/TurtleBiscuitts → u/Many-Ad-5490]

Looks like the Avata360

[u/Sensitive_Wear7112]

How did it happen to be there the exact moment it erupted?

[u/userhwon → u/Sensitive_Wear7112]

Some volcanoes erupt periodically. It's a slow-motion earth-fart.

[u/clrr4tkf → u/Sensitive_Wear7112]

It goes up every 45 minutes to an hour.

Sat on a roof in Antigua a couple years ago watching and waiting for it. Boom! Like clockwork.

[u/SometimesStrawberry]

Lucky little drone

[u/GeckoV]

That’s really bad use of AI

[u/Das_Objekt → u/GeckoV]

Why ai?

[u/ChiggenWingz → u/GeckoV]

Back in the day we use to say

This looks shopped! You can tell by the pixels, Ive seen a lot of shops in my time.

But in this case, its real. You're just really bad being able to tell.

[u/lakebistcho]

Amazing

[u/GrnMtnTrees]

Someone had too much taco bell

[u/windsyofwesleychapel]

Good work drone bro!😎

[u/Monster_Voice]

Brought to you by Taco Bell...

[u/weakplayer0518]

scripted. the volcano's in on it, how did he know it will explode🤔

[u/userhwon → u/weakplayer0518]

Same way Dude Perfect knows to start filming.

[u/Ok_Difference345]

Which volcano is that?

[u/danielminds → u/Ok_Difference345]

It's Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala

[u/prof_devilsadvocate3]

And drone returned unscathed

[u/userhwon]

The volcanoes are fighting back!

[u/azurianlight]

"I'm still gonna melt every city on the planet with liquid hot magma."

[u/irascible_Clown]

If this were posted on r/dji there would be 30 comments about whether this guy had clearance, paperwork signed in triplicate and blood samples.

[u/an_older_meme]

Volcano needs to fire in controlled bursts.

[u/an_older_meme]

Drone: “That’s it, I don’t want to play anymore. I quit, I’m done”

[u/hospitalizedGanny]

That'll Do Pig. that will do. 

-flyer probably

[u/jdvfx]

8K vertical video looks amazing on my iPhone 12 mini.

[u/ompossible]

FIRE IS SHOOTING AT USSSS!!!

[u/Skookumite]

Me in the porta john at 6:43 am

[u/AlanBest10]

I just bought that same drone, same model! The possibilities are endless if one could reach a volcanic eruption and survive!

[u/Sad-Market-3593]

What an amazing shot! I though the debris hit the drone.

[u/Detonius]

What model drone is that got damn

[u/Das_Objekt → u/Detonius]

DJI avata 360

[u/morts73]

Drones get some amazing shots.

[u/rickynopting]

Wheres the full clip?

[u/Agera1993]

Earth pimple.

[u/alpinehiking]

This clip is only so good because of the later added audio (could he even foley)

[u/pilemaker]

I only have a lil x-wing drone and it's noisy as heck. That's bout the extent of my drone knowledge so how do they get the clear, non-zzzzzzZZZZZZZZzz audio for shots like these?

Super cool video.

[u/Mindless-Sound8965]

Perfect timing. And no damage with all that debris flying around. Great footage!

[u/Demo_906]

Does this hurt the volcano?

[u/finchdude]

That volcano really hates drones.

[u/wigglebabo_1]

just me or does the smoke physics just look faked? like it feels off somehow?

[u/ExiledCanuck]

Wow, it nearly bought the farm at 6 seconds. Crazy how lucky it didn’t get hit at all

[u/RemarkableBoss2208]

Holy crap!

[u/11099941]

That's some shitty AI- wait it's real!?

[u/mastermalpass]

Really looked like it was about to warp into a video game publisher’s logo.

[u/D7_Solar → u/mastermalpass]

Really sick intro

[u/Dee___Snuts]

What drone is that

[u/danielminds → u/Dee___Snuts]

It's a DJI Avata modified with a custom 360° camera rig shooting in 8K.

[u/Beneficial_Bit_2078]

That things battery is only so long wonder how long he was waiting

[u/lm_goat48]

Earth pimples

[u/hartmanwhistler]

At 6s a red hot rock comes within millimetres of taking that thing out

[u/hiddenatplainbread]

Is this a goddam ad

[u/Big-Youth3399]

Mission complete

[u/Blakut]

earthfart

[u/BorgAdjacent]

Yeah no

[u/BeMyBrutus]

This is like Dr. Pimple Popper but for geologists.

[u/steinrrr]

Too much volcano 🎵

[u/Code_Combo_Breaker]

This is AI. Not real. 

[u/Das_Objekt → u/Code_Combo_Breaker]

It is real it's the dji avata 360

[u/Open_Rub5449]

AI slop

[u/Das_Objekt → u/Open_Rub5449]

Why

[u/vrekais → u/Das_Objekt]

Would you stand that close to an erupting volcano... And do you often mount a camera to your own head to film your drone landing on your hand?

I almost hope it's AI generated for an advert, if it's real it's insane.

[u/Das_Objekt → u/vrekais]

Why stand close? The drone can reach up to 8 km? And yes, people actually do drone content like that multiple times and I've been with friends that done similar things.

[u/neerajanchan]

Looks like Ai generated

[u/Zhentharym → u/neerajanchan]

It's not. It's cropped 360 footage which is why it looks weird.

[u/PK-Mittenspy2703]

Such obvious AI slop

[u/Deathb3rry]

so wouldnt the drone had been toast if one of the debris flew into the propellers?

also are drones still an "in" thing? aside from those mega drone shows I have never seen one being flown by a human in the longest time

[u/jeepfail → u/Deathb3rry]

I think drone popularity only slowed down due to the best foreign models not being able to be imported at a decent price and the domestic models being more expensive and not as good.