Lovers of shows and new technologies who were lucky enough to be in Tokyo this Friday, July 23, probably had stars in their eyes.
Because the organizers of the Olympic Games had done things big to illuminate the opening ceremony and the sky of the Japanese capital. At the end of three hours of festivities in the Olympic stadium, spectators were able to observe the extraordinary ballet of 1824 drones assembled to form the Earth to the sound of the famous song “Imagine”, co-written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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The sequence, one of the strongest of the ceremony, came at the end of the parade of nations, when the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, was due to speak. Hundreds of flying robots, some blue, others white, then soared into the sky, each in its place to form our planet and all its continents.
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