The MODULAR Camera of your Dreams...

So as you guys probably know, I've been playing around with products from Insta360 for a while now

including one of the first 360 cameras that I ever experienced, and then this crazy small

Go product, which is like a clippable camera. You could clip it on a hat, you could clip it on a

chain or a shirt, and it's, you know, even smaller than what you've seen before from action cameras

I like 360 degree video. I think there's a lot of possibility and potential there

but sometimes I get this question from people of like hey should I just get a regular action camera

or should I get a 360 degree capable camera and the trouble up until this point is that's been a

hard decision to make there's advantages and drawbacks to both different formats today

insta360 puts out this one rs twin edition which aims to merge both of those technologies into one

modular device. Now modular devices, I mean, that's cool enough on its own. We've imagined in

the past the idea of modular smartphones and laptops so that it can kind of shift its shape

given whatever type of project you want to throw at it. And it can kind of grow with you a little

bit. Like maybe you're shooting more 360 for one specific project. And then maybe you're shooting

more typical action camera stuff or POV stuff for another project. Well, this is that promise

delivered of modularity, and it's going to be an expanding ecosystem of components that can attach

to this particular setup. Now, Insta360, they've been doing both for a period of time. As I

referenced, we've shot cars, we've shot action, I've shot hockey, and the mounting setup is your

typical mounting setup. So you have like helmet mounts and poles, and then they've got their

software on top of it, which lets you do magical things like removing the selfie stick from shots

that you might have out of car or that you might have while you're skateboarding. You can use it

in a very casual way. You can use it in a professional setting when you're doing car

videos like we are, and we plan on using this product specifically for that into the future

so interchangeable lens action camera 360 degree lens option or 4k boost lens as they call it here

we can see a variety of different applications for how you can put it to use even just your typical

selfie vacation scenario with all of your smooth transitions and sunny skies and beautiful beaches

and special outfits like that

All right, let's break down some features of what we're going to get in the box. 5.7K 360 degree video or 4K wide angle video

48 megapixel photos, flow state stabilization, which is key for any action footage

you will get nauseous without it. They have one of the best stabilization systems

and it pays off. It makes this stuff so much more flowy

and smooth and usable. Horizon lock, another key component, particularly for POV footage

If you're doing any helmet mounted stuff, lock the horizon and make things far more professional

and not have to worry when you hit the record button that you need to monitor it

because you know you're gonna be on that horizon. The invisible selfie stick, that'll be deleted in the software

You just won't even see it. Waterproof to five meters, instant zoom, eight times slow-mo, four times slow-mo for 360 degree video

Active HDR, which I actually put to use at a hockey rink

And it was key because the ice surface tends to get blown out if it's bright and lit up

But then you have certain darker elements like the puck or the stick. I actually mounted the camera to my 10-year-old, and you'll see some of his stick handling moves

Auto edit is in there, so right from your mobile device, you can get all types of editing tools and kind of do it as easy and straight to social media as you want

or as comprehensive if you want to, like, dive deeply into it and get very granular with it

And you can also use it as a webcam, which if you have a terrible webcam, this can be quite an upgrade if you want to use it in that fashion

And this is our first glimpse into the modularity, how it all comes together with your mount and your battery base

and then your 360-degree lens, the RS Core, which is kind of the brains of the whole thing

It's also got your display on it. And then your 4K boost lens. I mean, it's still a very wide-angle shot, but not to the extent of 360

So that's going to be immediately shareable and sort of fit your typical action camera profile

Then there's also the 1-inch wide-angle lens, which that's the one that's co-engineered with Leica

They've had this collaboration for a while but that's going to be able to clip into this modular system as well

You can also see the items that are going to be in the box so why don't we go ahead and get into the box

Okay, so first things first up top here we have the core module alongside the 4K action camera component

The boost lens is what they call it. This is going to be f2.4 16mm equivalent

if you're trying to figure out just how wide that shot's going to be. of course you still have some physical buttons for record and power you have this little door

on the side which is like protected it seems to have a gasket on it as well for uh durability and

obviously for water resistance if you look in there you have your usb type c connector as well as

your micro sd card slot everything's going to be stored there even though you initiate recordings

can initiate recordings from the mobile app with a really big preview that's going to be recorded

internally to the camera and protected as mentioned by that gasket on that little door

So these two parts, this is where the magic happens. These two parts that come apart just like that. Super simple and easy to do. Now you might be thinking, hey, that's too easy. Well

actually it doesn't matter because you're going to have this inside of the external casing. So

that will actually wedge the two pieces together. So it's kind of nice that they actually come

apart easily And the way that works is you pick up say this guy right here And this is going to be your 360 degree video flow state stabilization and this is dual lens 360 f 2 7 millimeter equivalent so very very wide well 360 is capturing

absolutely everything and we just go ahead and slap this in and that's how quickly you have now

changed your typical action camera your 4k boost lens action camera into a 360 degree capable camera

no need for a completely separate device no need for a completely separate app everything is

functioning in one place now the last modular component in this particular kit is going to be

your battery module and this connects to the bottom of your device so i'll just go back to

the boost lens and then this part comes on to the bottom and actually it can go yeah it goes right

like this and it clips into place and now you're up and running and ready to go you can see it

starts to boot up right away you have a display on here so you can get a preview of what you're

looking at you can control certain settings from here the app is a little bit easier uh for me i

find it to be a little more convenient but it's nice to have that backup as well uh in case you've

just got access to the camera, or you wanna trigger a recording

You can go into your settings here as well and set up some of your different modes

Like for example, video, photo, and active HDR. So this little interface, even though I said

I typically prefer to just use the smartphone connected to the camera to control many of the functions

this little interface is actually pretty decent in a pinch. If I click on the little Q button here

it brings me into this quick menu. And that's gonna be my most commonly used presets

So if I like to constantly shoot 4K, 16, 9, 30 frames

active HDR, that's gonna be in there, but I also might wanna shoot a higher frame rate, non-HDR

Either way, it's all accessible via the quick menu. So you can still just pop this thing out

not even worry about your smartphone and get up and running. All right, so also in the package here

this is gonna be important. And this is your typical sort of action camera component that makes the thing mountable across a variety of different mounting accessories

including a helmet mount or maybe you want to mount it on a handlebar

any number of different arm type mounts that you would have for shooting automotive, for a car

It's truly endless. And so you go ahead and just slide the camera in, and now you kind of lock down temporarily the modularity

because everything is just locked up together. As you can see, this is your connection point

down at the bottom. You're gonna get a little bit of extra ruggedness out of this package in its entirety as well

Plenty of creative possibilities with this particular mounting setup. Okay, so that's an unboxing

and sort of basic setup of this device. As you can tell, it's super easy to operate

and shift between different modes. But I'm lucky enough to have access

to the vice president of the company who's going to give us a little bit more background on how this product came to be

Very exciting. I am joined by Michael, the vice president at Insta360

This is very cool stuff. It's like a hybrid of all the things you might want in an action camera

Can you describe this new product to me? It works on a modular system

It combines the best features of a traditional action camera and the best features of a 360 camera

Regardless of what you do, skiing or mountain biking, you never have to worry about what angle you're getting

But there are features of a traditional action camera that outweigh a 360

And so that's kind of why we decided to combine both together into one system

This is like a nice kind of entry into 360 because if you are apprehensive at all

about moving towards 360 filming, you have kind of the backup of

okay, fine, you want to use it like an action camera? to go ahead, use it like an action camera because it can do that too. So I think it's going to

introduce a lot more people to 360 that otherwise may have been too apprehensive to try it

Where the challenge is, is being able to easily take that content, edit it and share it without

having necessarily needing the skills of a professional editor. And if you look at most

action camera users, they're not editors and they're not filmmakers. They're really good at

what they do. And some of them might have, you know, a film crew that helps them, but that's

only at the highest level. You can essentially go from shooting, editing, to sharing all via our

mobile app in a couple of minutes without ever needing to pull out the SD card and put it into

your computer. So the next guy I'm going to introduce you to is Fabio Vibner. And I'm sure

you've seen his videos on YouTube. The guy pulls mega numbers on some of his amazing stunt trick

story videos. They're truly one of a kind. And he's recently partnered with Insta360 to actually

aid in the development of this product and upcoming products. And who better to partner with

than someone who's actually in the field professionally using this equipment to pull

some absolutely insane stunts. I'm sure you've heard it all before, but this is very impressive

stuff that you're doing. You know this, right? Thank you. Thank you. Well, yeah, I've been growing

up with stuff like this so uh it kind of gets normal at some point i'm curious uh what attributes

you're looking for in a camera like this i mean i have the one rs in front of me right now um

and sort of how how you use these types of cameras in order to help better tell the types of stories

you're trying to tell yeah i mean it's been really crazy to see those cameras at the moment like i

I mean, I can, it's like a funny story, but I can remember me probably 15 years ago putting like some sort of camera onto my helmet, like super heavy, trying to get actually like those kind of shots which we are, you know, getting now with like super tech cameras like the new Insta360

It's definitely quite exciting and I've been following them against the 360 for quite some while, checking it out

It really cool to see how they really try to think about stuff in a different way how they you know like really creative cameras as well which are meant to be used in a creative way

Is there any example either recently or in the past where you've been able to take a sort of much smaller, more rugged camera and put it into a scenario where a typical camera just wouldn't be capable

Yeah, definitely. I mean, obviously, you know, PV is still like one of the best, I think, camera perspectives you can have whenever you're doing action sports

But also, you know, I've been trying out stuff like to put on my bike to just like put the camera somewhere

And I've recently also tried out an angle, which goes pretty much just below my frame on the bike

where you can see the tire. And I've been riding down quite a steep cliff in the south of France

and that actually looked really cool. And I got tons of messages from people just asking where I mounted the camera

how I did it and stuff like this. So I still think there's so much creativity in using those cameras

which definitely just brings a lot of joy to capturing stuff. And especially for me, I mean, I love creating stuff

I love, yeah, just getting cool and unique content and always striving for something new

So, yeah, those cameras are like a really great addition, let's say, to me as a content creator

I presume that early on you were doing most of this stuff yourself. and has that changed as you've gone down this path

Are there multiple people sort of working on these projects? Because these are big projects

They start to look like big projects going on. Or are you still very hands-on where you need to be making every single edit yourself

or doing every single selection for music? To what extent is it now a team effort versus just strictly a personal one

I mean, I can remember, you know, filming my videos just like with a tripod myself and like a little camera

I feel like to create something really cool. The most important thing is, you know, the story, like the thing what's happening in the video

And I think like everything else, like the camera equipment, of course, this can play like a big part in whatever you want to like showcase

Like, for example, if you want to showcase like some like riding on a cliff where it goes down like super steep left and right

Like you have to try and figure out what's the best camera for this. And yeah, usually I'm the one who's having like those like ideas and visions in my head of how something can look like

So, yeah, like very, yeah, perfection, try to be perfection about everything

I mean, I could imagine you being out there shooting with such a specific requirement that you could even give insight to the product team and say, hey, here's something I would love to see in software or here's some development or here's some mount or something that I want to do

And then hopefully there can be some sort of collaboration there where together, you know, something can come out of it that can can be suitable, not just for you and things that you want to attempt to do

But a lot of other people can then start to think creatively based on that collaboration as well

Well, we've been actually doing this with a with a new RS camera. Like we've been I've been giving like the whole product team some some feedback

we've been working on it testing it on it and just like

I mean giving them a bit of my expertise from the past years and from what I

think a cool camera should have trying to bring that insight to them and we've been

working quite some time on this product where I've been trying to play kind of like a

cool role in also being part of the whole development which was also quite exciting for me

And, uh, yeah, you know, obviously like coolest thing about this is definitely, you know, you're kind of like having two cameras in one, um, which is, which is great

So especially for me, like 4K POV and like the 360 for like the very creative stuff is definitely making it for someone like me who's constantly doing different stuff, like very exciting to use and brings in like just a very easy, like usable camera, which you can bring everywhere

And you've got you can create some really unique stuff everywhere pretty much

Having a two-in-one camera system not only saves users' cost, because you're getting both for about the same cost that you would spend for one or the other

but what it does is it gives value back at the end of the day, because with a modular system, we're continuing to innovate and come up with new mods

that users can then upgrade to without having to necessarily pay for a whole new camera system

I see everything from a 1-inch wide-angle lens to a 4K boost lens and then a 360-degree lens

Would you be able to describe each of those three and their attributes

The 4K boost mod is where we put a lot of the upgrades into for this version of the camera

And what we've done is we've upgraded the camera sensor to a half-inch 48-megapixel sensor

so we've basically quadrupled the amount of megapixels in in the previous version and with

the half inch sensor you're getting better low light um we've we've upgraded the core mod which

controls all of the other mods it's kind of the brains of the camera um with a a new chip uh which

enables in-camera stabilization and and this is absolutely huge because um you don't have to post

process footage anymore to get stabilized shots. So average users, they can take their footage

right out of the camera without running it through our app or our studio and the stabilization is just there So it one less step that you have to go through The 360 mod is a 5 dual lens system that you can just plug and play So you pop the 4k mod off you put the 360 mod on it controlled

the same way through the same core mod, through the same app, but it comes with its own sensor

and its own lens. So it's basically like if you're comparing it to DSLR, you're not only changing out

the actual lens, but you're changing out the sensor that processes it. So it's an insane

concept to kind of wrap your head around. The third mod that we have available is a single

lens one inch mod that was co-engineered by Leica. It's also available, it's the same mod that was

available for the previous camera. And then we have, we're working on building out this ecosystem

later this year. So we're continuing to innovate. There's going to be new camera mods and systems

that will come out for it. The goal is to grow the ecosystem as much as we can

so that users can say, oh, well, I already have this system. I just need to, you know

I spend a little bit of money. I upgrade to the newest mod that you have

and I don't need to upgrade the core and I don't need to get new batteries. I'm just basically building out my kit

without spending money on an all new system. I wanted to turn the tables on you

Oh, okay. I mean, you mentioned it. You've been doing consumer tech for a long time

and you guys produce some really high-end great content. How have you personally used action cameras in the past

and how do you see yourself using a camera like the One RS

Well, it's funny because there's what I do for work and then there's also my personal life

stuff that really doesn't actually end up on the internet. It's more for myself

Here in the studio, I think a really cool opportunity is around automotive

Never had a Tesla before. And what a way to kick it off

As there's been, as I'm sure you're aware, this growth in the electric car market

it's brought so many more vehicles into our studio space. And we've been wanting to kind of take that coverage up a notch

I mean, we've already I'm already super happy with some of the work that we've done, but we've been wanting to do more stuff like out on the road

And so once you start looking at filming a car with a 360 camera, you just realize how much flexibility there is to create visuals that just are otherwise not possible

like one of the one of the cool examples we recently experimented with was this idea of like

kind of behind it would be like third person but except the car like the sort of behind the car

shot which it's almost like a video game the feel to it and it just gives you like this expansive

view of the vehicle in an environment which is it's just so much wider than anything that you

can achieve through a traditional means. So it lets you approach content from a different

perspective when you're capable of applying it. That's the perfect example of something that just

wasn't possible a few years ago or was, but you needed $100,000 to get the proper rig set up on

the car. You needed to get cameras, insurance, you needed the crew to manage it. And now it's like

you put your suction cup and your invisible selfie stick and the camera and you can basically

create that on your own i actually was just looking at this and and curious because i

i actually play hockey a lot and i was curious if i could find a way to rig one of these

where i could film an actual game playing a game and then see if i could throw that into

some editing tools and uh have a 360 degree hockey game experience that sounds awesome we

We recently did a video with the Anaheim Ducks where we took our tiny camera, our go-to

we rigged it on hockey sticks, on boots, on helmets, on the puck, everywhere

And we created this like super unique POV video that would only be possible with a camera like that

it's an amazing way to to have a relationship when you have the individuals uh the the the

creative side of it the artists the people actually making stuff can have some sort of

input on the eventual products because uh then you know that like the insight that you're getting

comes from the position of practical application it's like hey i want to solve this one particular

problem and it comes from experience it comes from the person who's actually out there doing

the thing from the the professional that that sort of wakes up in the morning and and is uh

is making stuff yeah definitely and that's been also the goal of our like partnership not just

you know me using the cameras but more like trying to develop you know something uh for the future

something uh something really cool which everyone enjoys it brings really some some big joy to

myself it's all good news i'm gonna keep my eye on your channel and everyone else that watches this

is gonna go check it out and i'm certain that you're gonna keep making amazing videos thank you

thank you appreciate it all right we'll uh we'll see you sometime in the future thank you perfect

thank you bye bye okay so there you have it it is the insta 360 one rs this is the twin edition

interchangeable lens action camera it really takes some of the guesswork out of deciding

between a 360 camera and an action camera. You get the best of both worlds in one package

Do everything. Do all of it. Get out there. Get on the snowboards

Get on the bikes. Do the activities. And don't be hindered by your production equipment

Look at how small this tiny little package is. Two cameras for one

This is the One RS from Insta360