DJI Hints at New Product Launch on October 11

It’s that point of yr once more. Another mysterious promotional video has been launched by DJI and we’re going to do our greatest to decipher it. It appears as if that is trailing a brand new product that’s attributable to launch on October 11. The particulars past which are large open.

The Next Stage in Cinematic Vision?

DJI’s newest trailer has aired as ‘The Next Stage in Cinematic Vision’. So what does that even imply? If we didn’t know higher, we’d anticipate that this daring tagline represents a kind of product we haven’t seen earlier than, one thing comparatively new.

But in fact that is DJI, an organization that likes to quickly iterate its drones and has progressively taken over the market utilizing that enterprise mannequin. So may this be a brand new drone within the Phantom sequence, the long-awaited Phantom 5? Or maybe a brand new Mavic Pro?

Both would make sense, provided that DJI’s final new releases have been minor upgrades to the Phantom four Pro and the Mavic Pro. In the cynical world of client drones, launching the Mavic Pro Platinum and Phantom four Pro Obsidian in September, raking within the pre-orders, after which releasing a totally new mannequin a month later… effectively that’s par for the course.

So right here’s the video. Take a glance and make your personal thoughts up…

So What Could It Be?

We know that a lot of these promotional video are normally dominated by footage shot with the product at hand. So that’s why this video is attention-grabbing: It options pictures which are clearly taken from a handheld gimbal together with aerial images.

Maybe it’s only a coincidence. But possibly it’s additionally a clue as to the performance of DJI’s new product. Maybe it’s suggesting that the product is each a drone and a handheld gimbal, a modular system that may be tailored to swimsuit the scenario you’re confronted with. A tool not completely totally different from the GoPro Karma.

Clearly, this could be horrible, horrible information for GoPro. With DJI fashions beating the Karma in each division besides modularity, a transfer in the direction of a 2-in-1 product may make life much more troublesome for one of many final US producers left standing.

But it’s not that ridiculous. After all, DJI has all of the to place a drone like that collectively. Its digicam know-how is excellent, together with its drones. And the hand held Osmo has confirmed well-liked. It’s only a case of becoming all three collectively.

A Phantom 5 is the probably reveal to come back from DJI, however the begin of a totally totally different vary – notably within the run as much as Christmas – would obtain loads of consideration.

But that’s sufficient hypothesis for sooner or later. We’ll discover out a 5pm PST on Oct 11, when DJI might be unveiling “the next stage in cinematic vision.”