The idea here was to mount the Lumia 1020 under a hexacopter and then go flying, showing off the OIS in the phone, which stabilises the footage. The hexacopter has its own stabilisation, to keep it level, but the phone's OIS handles smoothing out vibrations from the electric motors. Here's the set-up:
The Nokia Copter team then flew the gadget over Warsaw, Cracow and Wroclaw, giving a unique birds eye perspective. The video footage from the Lumia 1020 was then cropped and spliced into sequences from each location and packaged together with mapping information into 'Nokia Copter', free in the Windows Phone Store.
Although it's debatable how many others will get round to doing something similar, it's still a very cool tech demo. Here's a walkthrough:
A bokeh animated intro bodes well.... (right) the cities filmed from a bird's perspective....
For each city and location, there's a map and background information; (right) browsing Nokia Copter 'flights' by location within a city.
A frame from a typical Nokia Copter video in the sun...
... and another shot at night, showing off what the Lumia 1020 can really do....
So, grab it yourself and enjoy. And, even if you don't own a 1020, note that your Lumia 920 or 925 also have OIS and can produce video footage that's just as impressive....
And, just because THAT song wil have gotten under your skin in the process of playing with the application... here's the original Nokia-shot and inspired music video: