Making the SHIFT – alumni company turns drones into filmmaker dollies
Perceptiv Labs, a startup founded by Waterloo mechatronics engineering alumni Neil Mathew, Yan Ma and Prasenjit Mukherjee, has launched its first product that offers filmmakers and others an affordable, yet advanced way to capture pans, zooms and fly-by shots with its computer vision technology.
SHIFT is a vision-guided camera motion control platform that enables filmmakers to capture high speed precision tracking shots when filming dynamic subjects, in a way that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to film by a human operator.