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Antigravity's Follow Me bundle adds accurate tracking and gesture controls to its A1 drone

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Antigravity's Follow Me bundle adds accurate tracking and gesture controls to its A1 drone

It’s available as both an accessory bundle and a full kit with the drone.

Antigravity's debut drone could do a lot, combining 360-degree cameras (from parent company Insta360) with POV goggles and a one-handed point-and-fly controller. The A1 was a lot of fun to fly and offered a new way to capture drone video, letting users reframe footage after the fact by cropping into the 360 video to focus on the most interesting action.

The company's latest announcement isn't the A2, but a new accessory package it calls the Follow Me bundle. It includes propeller guards, a watch remote and a ring remote, and it's built to offer new hands-free shooting and tracking options. It's available now both as a complete bundle with the A1 drone for $799, as well as an accessory kit for $340. (Existing A1 owners will get a substantial discount, priced at $272.)

The watch and ring pair adds several new functions to the drone. It improves tracking performance by combining visual tracking with the Watch Remote's built-in GNSS to lock onto moving subjects more reliably. The duo also works as a new gesture-control system, so you don't need the one-handed controller and bulky goggles to fly the A1 and capture footage.

The bundle adds a new (and at times frustrating) control system: Drag-to-Fly gestures. After selecting the tracking subject on the watch display, press and hold the Ring Remote's button to initiate the new control method, with an audible confirmation and vibration from the Watch Remote.


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