Insta360 has formally introduced the Antigravity A1, a sub-250g 8K 360° drone that reframes aerial capture as something closer to wearing a headset than piloting a camera. It’s the debut product from Antigravity, a new drone brand backed by Insta360, and it arrives as the world’s first 8K 360 drone.
It uses a 1/1.28-inch sensor, records at a bitrate of up to 170 Mbps, and offers an ISO range from 100 to 6400. There’s 20GB of internal storage on board, with support for microSD cards up to 1TB for longer shooting days. Battery life varies depending on configuration, with a standard battery offering roughly 24 minutes of flight time, and a high capacity option reaching up to 39 minutes.
OmniLink 360° transmission feeds a spherical live view to Antigravity’s Vision goggles at ranges up to roughly 10 km (FCC), essentially letting pilots “inhabit” the drone as they fly. Forward and downward obstacle sensing, auto return to home, and retractable landing gear all support that immersive style of piloting.
The A1 a 360 camera that happens to fly, and its default output is a dataset of angles rather than a neatly framed shot. For Gaussian Splatting, that opens a new kind of aerial capture workflow. Instead of planning a carefully orchestrated set of passes to ensure coverage, creators can simply fly natural, sweeping paths and trust that the spherical video is capturing far more angles than a single directional camera ever could. It’s not a guarantee of perfect radiance field performance, but the design should radically reduce capture time.
The Antigravity A1 ships in multiple bundles, including packages with the Vision goggles and Grip controller, and remains safely under the 249-gram regulatory threshold that helps keep friction low for casual and professional pilots alike. If Insta360’s bet pays off, this could become the most accessible, lightweight way to gather high coverage aerial footage suitable for Gaussian Splatting.
