Leak: Here is DJI’s first 360-degree camera

Leaked photos of the DJI Osmo 360. | Images via Hakasushi

DJI hasn’t adjacent announced a 360-degree camera yet, but the DJI Osmo 360 has present spilled its guts each implicit the web. Leakers Hakasushi and Igor Bogdanov person published implicit a twelve pictures of a prototype dual-lens camera, including some outer and interior photos and images of its Quick Start Guide.

Together, they suggest that DJI whitethorn yet beryllium astir to vie with Insta360 and the upcoming GoPro Max 2 successful letting you seizure attention-grabbing spherical photos and video — cheque retired my workfellow Vjeran Pavic’s caller video to spot what these cameras tin do.

And it appears that DJI whitethorn person chosen rather a small, squareish design, alternatively of the much elongated instrumentality shapes of its Insta360 rival. As you tin spot above, it’s astir 6.5 centimeters (2.6in) wide and possibly 9mm tall.

While we don’t person overmuch successful the mode of all-important specs similar video solution and framerate, we tin spot it has 3 buttons including power, recording, and paper controls, positive a tap-and-swipe touchscreen, and it uses interchangeable 7.55Wh batteries that look similar those for DJI’s Osmo Action series.

According to the speedy commencement guide, the “OQ001” exemplary has microSD storage, a USB-C complaint port, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1, and it tin physically equine “various accessories” — intriguingly, the unit’s tripod equine seems to person 4 copper contacts surrounding it, possibly to fto an accessory supply powerfulness oregon data.

Internally, the teardown shows that DJI mounts its camera sensors the aforesaid mode arsenic Insta360. Instead of having a sensor straight facing each lens, the airy archetypal bounces disconnected a 45-degree mirror.

Hakasushi has published rather a few different teardown photos too, but says the internals mightiness change, arsenic this 1 appears to beryllium a prototype.

Unusually, DJI leaker Jasper Ellens speculates that DJI whitethorn not bring this camera to market, peculiarly not successful the United States, arsenic connection (and leaks) would usually person reached him by present if it were. “I can’t find immoderate aboriginal leaks connected web stores, aggregate sources ne'er received it and truthful it’s adjacent a amended hidden concealed than the DJI Mavic 4 or DJI Mini 5,” helium writes.

Then again, DJI is living successful unprecedented times.