The GoPro Drone is one of the most highly anticipated product of 2016 … but GoPro have decided to delay it until the Winter of 2016. We can expect some decent specs, but it ain’t going to be cheap. Rumors are floating around with starting price of $1,500 for the frame to a eye-watering $5,000 for a six camera version.
“The news comes after a disappointing year for GoPro. While the company shipped more cameras than ever before in 2015 (6.6 million), GoPro had a rough fourth quarter, bringing in about $200 million less than it did in the fourth quarter of 2014. Earlier in the year the company released the Hero 4 Session, its first majorly redesigned camera ever, but poor sales forced GoPro to cut the camera’s price in half later in the year. Other, more affordable cameras were released as well, but GoPro has already discontinued them — a move that cost the company $57 million.
Drones represent one new opportunity for GoPro, and 360 cameras are another. The company released the first sample footage from its six camera Omni rig today. This kind of video is expected to grow in popularity along with the rise of virtual reality headsets, which allows users to look around the footage simply by turning their head. It costs $5,000 in total, which is about $1,500 for the frame.”
Source: TheVerge
