A drone view of a dry elephant watering hole and lodge in Botswana.
A drone view of a dry elephant watering hole and lodge in Botswana.
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NatureEye launches immersive drone flights over world nature destinations

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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NatureEye is launching immersive drone flights to tourist destinations around the world, taking you to exotic places such as Elephant Sands in Botswana.

The Menlo Park, California-based company wants to revolutionize the virtual travel industry with the launch of its immersive drone flights. You can fly the drones yourself on your own safari in Africa or over a volcano in Iceland. I went on trial trip to Elephant Sands, where a tour guide named Ben and Matthew Rabinowitz, chairman of NatureEye, helped me get around.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.