Fat Shark, founded in 2007, manufactures FPV (where FPV stands for first-person view) headsets for drone racing. Fat Shark headsets have been showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show Drone Rodeo in 2015 and 2017.[1][2] In 2016, Fat Shark received a Terry Award by the for first-place FPV item, an award voted on by hobbyists through HobbyKing.[3] Multiple Fat Shark products were recommended for hobbyist drone pilots in the 2017 Drone Enthusiast list of "Best FPV Goggles & Gadgets."[4] Fat Shark holds an annual drone racing event called the Fat Shark Frenzy and Drone Olympics in Ontario.[5] and was a major sponsor to the first annual U.S. National Drone Racing Championships in 2015.
Fat Shark was founded by Greg French and is headquartered in Shenzhen with offices in San Francisco , Chicago and the Cayman Islands.