A Little History
Back in the early days of FPV, in May 2007, a passionate FPVer and aerial photographer was building
electronics to support the fledgeling hobby in the basement of his home in Switzerland.
The equipment available for video downlinks wasn’t great at the time, so a project was started to
help clean up these rather poor video feeds. This project never saw the light of day as the sync
restorer that was planned (embedded processors at the time weren’t up to the very tight timing
tolerances required), but instead turned into a ‘pixel bit-banging’ OSD, known as the ‘AeroOSD’, and
sold under the ‘AeroPix’ brand.
In the decade that has passed since that project, and many gray hairs later, the ImmersionRC team
has been researching ways to improve the FPV experience, especially for indoor flying where
multipathing can really ruin a great FPV day. We have driven vans loaded with test equipment into
metal-walled exhibition halls to capture the details of what happens as our video feeds experience
multipathing. We developed test systems that created reproducible multipathing nulls, and then
refined algorithms to eliminate them.
The rapidFIRE is the result of all of this work, and we are very proud to introduce this into the FPV
market. We hope that it creates as much pleasure for our customers as we have had designing,
testing it, and enjoying FPV flight with it.
