Awesome Pov

Action cam maker Replay XD shows off the prowess of their compact high-definition video cameras, giving us thrilling perspectives on sprint car racing from the vantage points of driver, steering wheel, tire, and track.

Vasiliy Patrakov takes us on a breakneck run across rooftops, up trees, down alleyways, over fences, and through the streets of Russia’s capital city – capturing the whole thing with a POV camera, so we can play along, Mirror’s Edge style.

(NSFW: Language) Get an adrenaline rush with this wicked video of pro mountain bike riders Aaron Chase, Brian Lopes and Chris Van Dine speeding down the streets of Valparaiso, Chile. Shot on GoPro HD Hero3+ cameras.

Heartpounding POV footage captured by 3RUN parkour and freerunning athlete Shade Zlat as he jumps from beam to beam of this incomplete building structure in Russia. Watch in full screen HD for optimal effect.

Take a first-person ride on a model railroad, courtesy of a GoPro camera strapped to the engine of this scale train set. Ryan Crets’ grandpa Bill spent about 15 years building this multi-room miniature world. Enable giants here.

Filipe B. Costa’s latest first person game puts you in the paws of Pokémon’s mascot, Pikachu. Pokémon battles can be intense, but we didn’t expect it to be this exciting. Bulbasaur is scary, but imagine if you had to face Wailord.

Watch Felix Baumgartner’s 128,000ft supersonic freefall from three different angles, including one from Felix’s point of view. The video also shows metrics such as his speed and altitude synchronized with the footage.

While shooting Devin Supertramp’s thrilling BASE jump video Marshall Miller captured this awesome POV footage when he jumped from a 486-foot-high bridge to nail his landing on moving target – a motorboat in the river below.

YouTuber Srachi is back with more footage taken by his special cameraman – er, camerabird. Watch it soar through a variety of landscapes and even past its human friends. Who needs a quadcopter when you have an eagle?

Chase Heavener of Fiction used the winning combo of the DJI Phantom quadrocopter and the GoPro Hero3 camera to make this relaxing summer reel. The song is Paracosm by Washed Out. Just what we need now that Fall is here.

Firefighter Cory Kalanick was wearing his GoPro camera when he entered a smoke-filled house and encountered a poor, unconscious kitty. It’s a little hard to watch the little guy when he’s lying there, but Cory helps nurse it back to life.

YouTuber Srachi uploaded this awesome POV footage taken from a camera that was strapped to an eagle. The bird was soaring above the Mer de Glace glacier in the Chamonix valley in France. It’s at once amazing and soothing.

Eddie Codel mounted a GoPro HD Hero3 and an Arris CM2000 gimbal on his DJI Phantom Quadcopter to take videos of this year’s Burning Man festival. The background music is by Fingers in the Noise. We’d love a nighttime version now.

Ever wanted to travel to the Alps, but didn’t have the time or money to take the journey? Well sit back for the next 22 minutes and enjoy a 7.5 mile flight to an altitude of over 7,000 feet in a 3-foot-wide Microdrones MD4-1000 UAV.

Amazing footage captured from Paul di Resta’s F1 car using a thermal imaging camera, showing the heat coming off his tires during his 2nd practice run at Monza. We’d like to see one aimed at the engine next time.

Red Bull’s stunt flying team takes to the skies at the UK’s Sunderland Airshow, and gives us a dizzying eagle’s eye view from the inside the cockpits and along the wings of their single-engine flying machines.

Gearheads, are you having a bad day? Just hit play and crank the speakers for two minutes of some of the most glorious noise you’ll ever hear, recorded from inside Maximilian Werner’s Ferrari 250 SWB GT Breadvan rounding Nürburgring.

Filmmaker Nicolas Doldinger captured this awesomely smooth fly-over footage around New York City using his GoPro Hero3 camera, attached to a Zenmuse H3-SD Gimbal mounted to a DJI Phantom quadcopter. We want more.

We’ve seen what Super Mario Bros. could look like in first person. Now step into the red shoes of Sonic with Machinima’s first person – first hedgehog? -run through the Green Hill Zone. It’s not as dizzying as we thought it would be.

For July 4th, the guys from Louisiana Hog Control sent their RC plane into the air and shot fireworks at it, providing a unique POV on the pyrotechnics as they whiz by the wings of the flyer. We want bigger fireworks next time.

Bask in the majesty of the Niagara Falls from a bird’s eye view. YouTuber questpact used a DJI Phantom quadcopter equipped with a GoPro HD Hero3 camera. The song is The In-Between by A New Normal.

Although the stunts are from his Imaginate video series, it’s still fun to see Danny MacAskill as he plays on giant toys from his childhood from a new perspective. This POV footage was shot 100% on GoPro’s HD HERO3 camera.

Go for a stroll a jump, a sprint and a roll through Cambridge with this first person parkour video by James Kingston, aka the man who free climbed up a 315ft. high crane. We’d be clapping if we weren’t so dizzy.