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The Antigravity A1 is the most interesting thing to happen to consumer drones in years: the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360-degree drone, built by Antigravity, a brand incubated by Insta360 and launched as a deliberate challenge to DJI. Unveiled in August 2025 and launched December 4, 2025 at $1,599 with goggles and controller included, it replaced the gimbal with dual lenses that film everything around the aircraft at once. Fly first, frame later: our first impressions called it an invisible eye in the sky.
We have flown it more than almost anyone. Our coverage spans Jake Sloan’s launch review, Russ’s hands-on and first-flight tutorial, a complete beginner flying it in two minutes, and a months-later long-term verdict. The running theme: the A1 trades peak image sharpness for a workflow nobody else offers, backed by a payload-detection system that refuses to carry anything. It collected TIME Best Inventions 2025 before a single unit shipped, and an April 2026 firmware update added the omnidirectional obstacle avoidance the launch hardware lacked.
The rivalry that defines this page: DJI answered with the Avata 360 in March 2026, and the two have traded price cuts and firmware punches since. Russ’s head-to-head, Jeven Dovey’s comparison, and Philip Bloom’s three-way test all land in the same place: the A1 wins on weight, endurance, and software; DJI wins on price and color depth. Our A1 vs Avata 360 comparison page distills all four verdicts into one spec-by-spec answer. If you have already picked a side, the Antigravity A1 is on Amazon and our DJI Avata 360 guide tracks the other one. The feed below carries every Antigravity story as we publish it.
Last updated August 24, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.
For Project Eternal, Mikhail Svilanov flew the Antigravity A1 360 drone over Ovech Fortress in Bulgaria and turned a single ten-minute flight into an explorable 3D Gaussian Splatting model with Splatica.
DJI’s 2026 drone pipeline keeps moving, and American buyers keep watching from the sidelines. The Air 4 turned up inside a Chinese flight-reporting app back in May. A model nobody can identify, the N610BS, just cleared Chinese radio certification. The Avata 360 already shipped worldwide in March. Every one of those launches hits the same…
Marques Brownlee, the YouTube reviewer known as MKBHD, has published a sponsored video on the Antigravity A1, the 8K 360 drone co-engineered by Insta360, and his verdict lands somewhere most sponsored content never goes: he spent most of the runtime selling the experience, then closed by naming two things he would change. Brownlee called the…
Mikhail Svilanov revisits the Antigravity A1 after months of use, focusing on firmware improvements, newly added omnidirectional obstacle avoidance, and whether the immersive 360 flight experience now feels more polished.
I flew the Antigravity A1 and DJI Avata 360 head-to-head in Puerto Rico. Here's how they compare on size, goggles, signal, flight time, and which to buy.
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The DJI Air 4 has surfaced inside a Chinese drone flight-reporting app, sitting in a dropdown menu of selectable aircraft alongside the already-shipping Insta360 Antigravity A1. The screenshot, posted Monday by drone leaker Igor Bogdanov on X with the caption “Caught…Air 4,” is the first known appearance of the unannounced model in a regulatory-adjacent piece…
Antigravity's A1 spring update adds omnidirectional obstacle avoidance, timelapse, voice control, and a revamped Auto Edit. Spring sale pricing also remains posted.
The world's first all-in-one 8K 360-degree drone, launched December 4, 2025 by Antigravity, a brand incubated by Insta360. Instead of a gimbal it carries dual lenses on top and bottom of the fuselage, capturing everything around it at once, and stitching renders the drone invisible in footage. Every bundle ships complete with Vision Goggles and the Grip motion controller.
Antigravity was incubated by Insta360 with third-party collaboration, and Insta360's five generations of 360-camera work power the A1's stitching and editing software. Reviewers note the sensors and lenses are the same units found in the Insta360 X5. Insta360 is headquartered in Shenzhen, the same city as DJI.
Not with the standard battery: at exactly 249 grams it sits below the 250-gram threshold for recreational registration and qualifies for EU C0. The optional High-Capacity battery extends flight from 24 to 39 minutes but raises the weight to 291 grams, which triggers FAA registration, Remote ID, and EU C1.
It launched at $1,599 for the Standard Bundle and $1,999 for the Infinity Bundle, always including goggles and controller. Sales have been frequent: 15% off in January 2026, a 20% Spring Sale that dropped the Standard to $1,279, and Prime Day discounts up to 25% in June.
The 8K/30 figure is the full stitched 360 sphere across both lenses. Crop a normal forward-facing frame out of it and effective resolution lands closer to 2.7K, in 8-bit with no log profile. That is how all 360 cameras work, but it means a dedicated camera drone still wins for the sharpest traditional shots.
Our reviewers split it consistently: the A1 wins on sub-250g weight, real-world flight time, goggle comfort, and its Antigravity Studio editing software; the Avata 360 wins on price, DJI's transmission strength, controller flexibility, and 10-bit D-Log M color. Russ's Puerto Rico head-to-head leaned A1 overall; Philip Bloom gave DJI the image-quality win.
No, by design. Its payload detection system monitors for extra weight or attachments and forces an immediate landing if anomalies are detected, a direct response to consumer drones being weaponized. Antigravity's tagline: Born to fly. Not to carry.
Yes, that is its core pitch. The Grip's point-to-fly control and auto-hover removed the FPV learning curve enough that a documented complete beginner flew it competently within two minutes, and a Flight Simulator inside the Vision Goggles lets new pilots practice first. Our reviewers' advice for a first flight: sit down, the immersion is disorienting.
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