Antigravity A1 Spring Update Adds Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance

Michael Rubloff

Michael Rubloff

Antigravity A1

Antigravity has rolled out the Spring update for the A1, the sub 250g 8K 360 drone incubated by Insta360. Distributed via the Antigravity app as firmware V3.3.11.3, the release is the most substantial software push since the A1 shipped in late 2025, and it follows last week's announcement of Project ETERNAL, Antigravity's heritage preservation initiative built around Gaussian Splatting.

The firmware update begins with omnidirectional obstacle avoidance. At launch, the A1's sensing was limited to forward and downward, which left the sides and top of the aircraft unprotected. The new system fuses the drone's 360 sensing with its front and downward binocular vision to detect obstacles from every direction, and adds a bypass mode that actively maneuvers around objects rather than simply stopping in place.

Sky Path has also been expanded. Pilots can now assign a specific camera angle to each node along an automated route, and the A1 will smoothly transition between those framings as it flies the path. Combined with the new Timelapse mode, which is supported in both Normal Recording and Sky Path, the A1 moves closer to a fully autonomous capture rig.

Auto Edit has been rebuilt as Auto Editing 2.0. The Antigravity app now reframes 360 footage automatically, picks cinematic angles, and syncs cuts to music to produce a shareable video without manual editing. It is aimed at delivery video rather than reconstruction, but it is worth noting that the same spherical capture feeding the editor is also the dataset feeding pipelines like the recently announced Splatica integration.

The remaining additions are control and experience focused. Voice commands now trigger Sky Genie, Sky Path, Deep Track, and Return to Home through spoken phrases, layered on top of the existing FreeMotion control system. Virtual Cockpit overlays a first-person avatar view.

Antigravity has also confirmed that joystick control is coming in a future update, which makes the upgrade to omnidirectional sensing look like groundwork for faster manual piloting down the line.

The update is rolling out now to all A1 owners through the Antigravity app.

Learn more about the Antigravity A1 Spring update here.

Or purchase the drone here.

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