DJI put the Osmo 360 II on sale in China on Thursday, August 13, at 8:00 pm Beijing time, pricing the standard package at 3,299 yuan, about $460. The second generation of DJI’s panoramic camera records native 8K video at 60 frames per second, swaps its lenses by hand, and ships with 105GB of internal storage. The company’s US store, checked minutes after the reveal, returns a 404 page.
The Launch Sheet Confirms The Leaks And Adds The Fine Print
The Osmo 360 II records native panoramic video at 7680 by 3840 pixels from 24 to 60 frames per second, meters up to 14.5 stops of dynamic range by DJI’s lab numbers, and takes user-replaceable lenses hardened with an ion sputtering coating, according to the specifications DJI published at launch.
A week of pre-launch reporting called the headline features correctly. When DroneXL covered the Chinese pre-order window on August 7, the expected package was 8K60 and swappable lenses. Both held up.
The fine print is where the launch sheet earns a read. The night mode, listed as AI Super Night Scene 2.0 in DJI’s Chinese materials, now records at up to 8K60. In the D-Log M color profile, dynamic range tops out at a rated 13.5 stops.
Slow motion gets two lanes. Panorama mode captures 4K at 240fps for 8x slow motion, and DJI Studio can stretch native 8K60 footage through AI frame interpolation into what DJI rates as the equivalent of 8K480, a trick reserved for Apple’s M-series Macs.
A subject-tracking mode keeps a person centered in the spherical frame and exports a flat 4K30 video automatically through the DJI Mimo app or DJI Studio. Single-lens mode reaches 4K120 in ultra-wide, and the camera switches lenses mid-recording at up to 4K60 without stopping the file.
Storage carries over rather than growing: the same 105GB of internal memory the first generation shipped with, plus a microSD slot. Panoramas record in DJI’s OSV format, flat exports in MP4 HEVC.
The Battery Rating Lands Where The Skepticism Pointed
DJI rates the Osmo 360 II at up to 100 minutes of continuous 8K30 panoramic recording, or 120 minutes in its long battery life mode, and that 100-minute 8K30 figure is the same rating the original Osmo 360 carried at its Chinese launch in July 2025.
The pre-launch leaks sold a bigger battery as a longer runtime. DroneXL’s pre-order coverage flagged the catch: a larger cell feeding silicon hungry enough for 8K60 can leave real-world recording time flat. The launch sheet settles it. The rating did not move.
The battery story is swappable rather than sealed. The camera pairs with a new 2,150 mAh cold-resistant pack, sold separately at 189 yuan, about $26, and rated for -4 F to 113 F (-20 C to 45 C). It still accepts the older Osmo Action packs at 1,950 and 1,770 mAh.
That cross-compatibility is the quiet win for anyone already carrying DJI action cameras. The charger tray in the bag does not care which body the battery feeds.
Insta360 Moved First And Priced Higher
The Insta360 X6 launched 23 hours earlier at $699.99 in the United States, carrying dual 1/1.1-inch sensors, native Dolby Vision, and a 2,600 mAh battery rated at 140 minutes of 8K30 recording, numbers aimed squarely at the camera DJI revealed today.
DroneXL’s coverage of the X6 launch read the date as the real story: two Shenzhen companies shipping flagship 360 cameras 23 hours apart, with exactly one of them able to reach American shelves.
The China pricing sharpens that picture. The first Osmo 360 launched at 2,999 yuan in China and $549.99 in the United States, matching the Insta360 X5 it chased. When DroneXL compared those two cameras last August, price parity was DJI’s opening move.
The second generation adds 300 yuan, a 10 percent bump. If the China-to-US spread of the first generation held, the Osmo 360 II would land near $600 in America, roughly $100 under the X6. That math stays hypothetical, because there is no American price to check it against.
Bundles run from a 3,499 yuan riding kit to a 4,006 yuan diving package, with a 3,999 yuan shooting kit in between. Chinese buyers also get twelve months of interest-free installments and a year of DJI Care thrown in at launch.
The US Store Answers With A 404
The Osmo 360 II holds a valid FCC equipment authorization, granted December 21, 2025, one day before the Covered List cutoff froze new approvals for DJI hardware, yet DJI’s American storefront carries no product page and no US price for the camera it just launched everywhere else.
I loaded DJI’s US store minutes after the 12:00 UTC reveal. The page apologizes, promises an auto-redirect in six seconds, and dumps you back on the homepage. The grant is public record under FCC ID 2ANDR-OQ0022512. The store does not acknowledge the product exists.
The pattern around it is consistent. The Osmo Pocket 4P launched globally in July with no US page. The Mic Mini 2S followed on August 4 the same way, and the O4 Wide Air Unit skipped America in June.
DJI’s April brief to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit counted five drone models and nine handheld products blocked from the US market, with 25 more launches in limbo. The same filing put lost American revenue near $1.56 billion this year. The Osmo 360 II was supposed to be the exception. Launch day says otherwise.
DroneXL’s Take
Earlier this week I wrote that Americans might finally be invited to a DJI launch, because the Osmo 360 II cleared its FCC authorization one day before the Covered List cutoff froze new approvals. Half of that held up today. The authorization is real. The invitation never printed.
Put this camera next to the Mic Mini 2S and the Pocket 4P, the two launches Americans watched from outside this summer. Same company. Same engineers. Same shelf in every other market. The thing that separates the legal product from the invisible ones is not technology and it is not security. It is a filing date. National security, as currently written, is a calendar.
The eligible camera and the blocked ones now share the same American outcome anyway, and that should bother both sides of the ban debate. If the December grant makes the Osmo 360 II legal to sell, then the empty US page is a choice, and every American creator shopping for a 360 camera this month pays $699.99 for the X6 with no competitor on the shelf beside it.
Whether DJI converts its paper eligibility into an American price is an open question, not a prediction. I checked the 404 page one more time before filing this. Still redirecting.
Sources: DJI (China online store, product listing and launch FAQ), FCC ID database (Osmo 360 II equipment authorization), DroneXL (Insta360 X6 launch), DroneXL (Osmo 360 II pre-orders), DroneXL (Osmo 360 vs Insta360 X5), IT Home (original Osmo 360 China launch price and runtime)
DroneXL uses automated tools to support research and source retrieval. All reporting and editorial perspectives are by Rafael Suárez.
