Basically, the AR Drone Quadricopter is a four-propeller flying drone –a plastic and foam helicopter that is about a foot long and can be remotely controlled from an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch via Wi-Fi with a video-streaming camera. This is done with the help of two cameras equipped one on its belly to calculate its speed and another on its nose that streams its field of vision back to the iPhone screen.

As of now, Parrot has already created two games for the AR.Drone, and has been inviting developers to come on board the API platform and develop more and adapt the software to run on other devices. In later editions, games of ‘augmented reality’ will be released that will allow two players to fight virtual objects such as robots (by firing light beams at each other) on the iPhone's screen.

AR Drone Quadricopter’s basic technology is that it works on augmented reality. This is something when there is computer generated imagery added to a view of the physical world. Besides a full on-board computer that uses an Arm926 core processor and Linux, it also has a three axis accelerometer, two gyroscopes and an ultrasound altimeter.

While the front camera of the AR Drone produces a 640 x 480 pixel video at 15 frames per second; the bottom camera shoots at 176 x1 44 video at 60 frames per second. Other than that, it uses a cellular phone CPU, memory, sensors and it has a very powerful CPU that permits it to bring this level of flight quality, but also processing for the augmented reality.

Moreover, the AR Drone Quadricopter has autopilot features that include automatic take-off and landing, auto leveling and stable flight 1 meter above the ground after take off and automatic stabilization on release of controls. According to Parrot official sources, the AR Drone will be available this year; however, the pricing for the ‘path-breaking innovation has not yet been disclosed for the time.