Insta360’s new gimbal add-on brings subject tracking to any camera app

Feb 18, 2025 11:47 PM - 1 month ago 44212

Andrew Liszewski

Andrew Liszewski is a elder newsman who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved each things physics since he was a kid.

Insta360 has announced a caller accessory for its Flow 2 Pro smartphone gimbal that allows immoderate camera app to return advantage of the company’s AI-powered search technology. Previously, taxable search required the usage of the company’s ain Android aliases iOS camera app, aliases iOS apps that supported Apple’s DockKit framework. The caller Insta360 Flow 2 Pro AI Tracker handles the search and controls the gimbal connected its own, letting you record, stream, aliases make calls pinch your preferred smartphone app.

With the introduction of DockKit successful 2023, developers were capable to make iOS camera apps compatible pinch motorized stands and mounts and adhd taxable search capabilities without having to create that characteristic themselves. That’s what allows galore third-party iOS camera apps, specified arsenic Blackmagic Camera, to activity pinch devices for illustration the Flow 2 Pro.

The Insta360 Flow 2 Pro AI Tracker module from 2 different angles.

Insta360’s caller locator module is simply a workaround for Android lacking its ain built-in search framework. It’s sewage its ain camera and Insta360’s search exertion baked into the hardware. It doesn’t matter what smartphone camera app you’re utilizing (on iOS aliases Android) — you’ll still get stabilized video pinch your taxable automatically framed astatine each times, whether they’re quality aliases a canine aliases cat. However, the search capabilities aren’t arsenic robust arsenic what you’ll get from Insta360’s app, which tin way aggregate group and way while zoomed into a subjects.

A personification utilizing Insta360’s Flow 2 Pro gimbal successful the evening pinch the company’s caller search module attached.

The AI Tracker module besides brings motion functionality to different apps, allowing you to commencement and extremity its tracking. by raising your hand, aliases commencement and extremity signaling video by raising 2 fingers. There’s an LED capable ray built into it pinch colour somesthesia adjustments, it tin beryllium utilized facing forwards aliases backmost for selfie videos, and alternatively of relying connected a battery, the search module draws each the powerfulness it needs while attached to the Flow 2 Pro gimbal.

The Insta360 Flow 2 Pro AI Tracker is available now connected its ain for $39.99, but the institution is besides offering it arsenic portion of a $179 AI Tracker Bundle that includes the $159.99 Flow 2 Pro gimbal, reducing the value of the add-on module to astir $20.

The caller AI locator is simply a akin solution to what DJI introduced today connected its caller $149 Osmo Mobile 7 Pro which besides expands search capabilities to much than conscionable DJI’s mobile app. In our testing, the Osmo Mobile 7 Pro’s artillery life was reduced from astir 10 hours to astir 5 while utilizing its outer search module, but Insta360 hasn’t revealed really overmuch its caller AI locator will trim the Flow 2 Pro’s artillery life.

More