Soon-Jo Chung’s group has produced from its research into swarms of autonomous flying spacecraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, aerial drones react to a student’s arm movements like an orchestra to a director’s prompts.
[T]the student wears gloves and/or a hat equipped with reflective markers the small quadcopters sense and to which they respond. The student moves one gloved arm and all 10 drones react, moving up and down or side to side.
When the student moves his left and right arms separately, two lines of five drones respond to their corresponding arm’s direction, independently of the other line. In another option, the automatically controlled quadrotors move as a unit to avoid the student as he walks through the spacecraft collection.
It’s like an evil genius version of the Wii or Xbox One…