The Funnest Drone to Fly, With One Big Image-Quality Catch

A 360 camera bolted to a 249 g drone changes how you fly, because you stop fighting the camera and the flight path at the same time. That single shift is what makes the Antigravity A1 worth a serious look, and it explains why one creator kept reaching for it long after the video was supposed to be finished.

Flying and framing have always been two skills you had to nail at once, and getting one right often meant blowing the other. Benj Haisch works through why the Antigravity A1 sidesteps that problem entirely, with cameras on the top and bottom that stitch into a full 360-degree view. You concentrate on where the drone goes, then reframe everything afterward in software that looks a lot like Insta360's. Haisch has owned four drones and flown them for years, so his read on the flight experience carries weight. He's also upfront that Antigravity sent the unit but isn't paying for the video or reviewing it before release.

The image quality comes with honest limits. The A1 shoots 8K, but that resolution covers the entire 360-degree sphere, so cropping into a center portion for a 4K delivery leaves you with far less to work with. It's an 8-bit camera with no log profile, which puts it well below cinema-camera territory. Think establishing shots, landscapes, and showing where you are rather than footage you'd punch in on or grade heavily. Stills come in around 55 megapixels, fun for unique angles but not something you'd print given the dynamic range and color depth.

The goggles are where things get strange in the best way. Haisch flies mostly in FPV mode using a controller driven by gyro data, so you pull back to climb, push down to descend, and rotate the unit itself to turn. He doesn't normally fly FPV drones and still found this the most intuitive setup he's used, which is a big part of why he kept packing it for camping trips and mountain drives. The kit he has includes a USB-C charger that handles three batteries with fast charging. Deep tracking followed his car down a forest road, banking around corners on its own, and the obstacle avoidance has been solid enough that this is the only drone he's never crashed.

360-degree capture on a flying platform fits a specific way of working, and knowing that upfront saves disappointment. The A1 suits the run-and-gun creator who wants to grab immersive coverage of a place and decide on framing, aspect ratio, and orientation back at the desk. You can pull a vertical clip for a phone edit, a square for social, and a wide horizontal shot for a landscape sequence from the same flight. That reframe-later workflow mirrors what 360 shooters on the ground have done for years, and putting it in the air removes the pressure of committing to a composition mid-flight. It pairs naturally with a phone-first or short-form pipeline, where the ability to reorient a single take into several formats matters more than pixel-peeping a 4K crop. If your work leans toward broadcast-quality aerials with long lenses and heavy grades, a multi-camera drone still makes more sense.

Watch the video above to see the FPV goggles in action and the deep-tracking car chase Haisch pulled off down that forest road.