Snap is launching a flying digicam, the corporate introduced Thursday right through its annual companions summit.
The digicam, known as Pixy, is a “pocket sized” instrument without a controller. As an alternative, customers faucet a button to ship Pixy into one in every of 4 preset flightpaths. The instrument floats, orbits, or follows a couple of toes above the person to seize pictures and movies, then lands within the person’s palm.
Snap is billing Pixy as a spouse to its flagship app, Snapchat. The corporate stated movies and photographs from flights mechanically switch into the person’s Snapchat Reminiscences. Customers can edit the images and proportion to some other platform, it stated. The Pixy shops as much as 100 movies or 1,000 pictures.
It’s to be had as of Thursday within the U.S. and France for $229.99. The bottom flight pack contains the Pixy digicam, bumper and sporting strap, a charging cable and a chargeable battery. Further batteries are to be had for $19.99 and a twin battery charger is to be had for $49.99, the corporate stated. The digicam could make 5 to 8 flights the usage of its default flight modes on each and every battery recharge.
Snap has ventured into devices previously with Spectacles, its $380 augmented actuality glasses, which is able to superimpose computer-generated pictures over the person’s visual field. The corporate has indicated it’s dedicated to {hardware} in the long run, which might open up a brand new earnings circulation except its promoting industry. Alternatively, the corporate stated in its remaining income file that earnings from {hardware} lately is “now not subject matter.”
The corporate additionally introduced a number of augmented-reality options and developer updates. Snapchat now reaches 600 million per 30 days energetic customers and greater than 330 million day by day energetic customers, it stated.
