DJI’s FPV racing drone looks mighty real in these leaked photos

For a short second final July, it appeared like drone maker DJI was going to dive straight into drone racing with a speedy FPV (first-person-view) drone of its personal. In actuality, it merely dipped a toe — however a little bit over a yr later, it seems like the corporate is almost able to announce a racing drone in any case.

You’re now leaked pictures of what seems to be referred to as the “DJI FPV,” and it definitely doesn’t appear to be any drone the corporate’s launched earlier than:

With none onerous specs and even the barest concept of worth, it’s robust to guage what we’re , however the three-blade propellers, sizable hump, and minimalist controller are all a departure from the corporate’s many earlier drones.

That is sensible, since FPV racing and filming focuses on pace over all else. You’ll usually tilt your total drone far past the angle you’d tilt a standard filmmaking drone to maximise your ahead momentum — and while you do, you want a digicam that primarily tilts up, not down. And when you’re going to be sporting an FPV headset on a regular basis (it seems to come back with the DJI FPV Goggles), you don’t really want a holder in your cellphone.

These leaks all come by means of OsitaLV on Twitter (by way of DroneDJ), who has a status for locating out DJI’s information earlier than it’s official. Most just lately, OsitaLV shared images and details of the DJI Pocket 2 4 days earlier than it was introduced. Additionally they just lately shared a picture of a attainable Mavic Professional 3.

Early final month, DJI’s Brendan Schulman teased that the corporate would possibly nonetheless have one other product announcement this yr:

Maybe that is it?