Antigravity
Antigravity A1
Insta360's drone brand did the thing everyone expected Insta360 to do: put a 360 camera on an aircraft and delete the gimbal entirely. Two 1/1.28-inch lenses, one above and one below, capture everything around the drone at 8K/30, and the stitching algorithm removes the aircraft from its own footage. You do not frame during the flight; you fly, then pick angles afterwards from a sphere. Control is goggles-first — a 2560x2560-per-eye headset with head-tracked FreeMotion and a conventional FPV mode — which makes the flying feel closer to sitting in the thing than steering it. It squeezes under 249 grams on the standard battery, carries omnidirectional sensing and return-to-home, and is one of the few genuinely current aircraft a US buyer can order new without an import caveat. The workflow is also genuinely different from a camera drone's. You come home with spherical footage rather than shots, and every frame you publish is a crop and a reframe made afterwards in software — which is liberating if you already edit and tedious if you do not.
The 250-gram line
Under 250 g: recreational flight needs no FAA registration, and Remote ID does not apply.
Every recreational flyer must also take TRUST and carry proof of it, at any weight. Rules checked against faa.gov on 2026-09-24. Not legal advice — how this is worked out.
What that 24-minute claim is measured at
Antigravity quotes 24 minutes on the standard battery and 39 on the high-capacity pack, measured while recording 5.2K/30. The larger battery takes the aircraft past 249 g and with it the US registration exemption.
That works out to 1.5 claimed minutes per $100 of the base kit. Compared with the rest of the catalog.
Buying one in the US: sold
Checked 24 Sep 2026. Launched 4 Dec 2025 and sold in the US through Antigravity's own store, Best Buy and retail partners — a genuinely current US-available alternative while DJI's supply is frozen.
Specifications
True first-year cost: ~$1,599 — the base kit at ~$1,599; no crash-plan price has been verified for this model, so nothing is added for it.
What it has
- Dual 1/1.28-inch lenses capturing full 360 at 8K/30
- Invisible-drone stitching removes the aircraft from its own footage
- Vision Goggles at 2560x2560 per eye with head-tracked FreeMotion control
- Omnidirectional obstacle sensing and return-to-home
- Standard battery keeps it under 249 g; high-capacity pack extends to 39 minutes
- 10 km transmission range in FCC regions
- Built-in Remote ID broadcast
In its favour
- Reframing from a 360 sphere removes the single hardest part of flying a camera
- Goggles and controller are in the box rather than accessories
- Currently available new in the US with no import caveat
- Omnidirectional sensing and return-to-home, which the selfie-drone class lacks
- Under 250 g on the standard battery
Against it
- $1,599 puts it above every DJI here except the Mavic flagships
- No gimbal — stabilisation and framing both happen in software
- The 39-minute battery pushes it over 249 g and cancels the exemption
- A brand-new platform, so the editing workflow and firmware are young
- Several specs, including bitrate and colour depth, are not published
The two lists above are drawn from the manufacturer’s published specifications and from the cited reviews, not from owner reports.
What owners report
No owner discussion has been collected for the Antigravity A1 yet. Rather than fill the gap with something plausible, this section stays empty until there is a real body of owner reports to read. The specs above come from the maker’s published documentation.
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- Claimed
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- Claimed
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