To engage automatic take-off, you hold down the center button until a countdown timer appears on the screen. Unlike the DJI Phantom 3 ($134.00 at Amazon UK) (Opens in a new window), it has a built-in, 720p touch-screen display, making for a flying experience that feels a bit like a video game. Instead, the first thing about the Karma that makes you raise your eyebrows is the controller. It's a fairly ordinary quadcopter, though it does fold to fit in a backpack and has very bright lights that made it easy to identify against the deep blue Sierra Nevada sky. That enables a relatively low $799 price tag, though pricier bundles with GoPro's new Hero5 cameras are also available. But based on PCMag's quick hands on, this is a drone that needs no apology.īesides the fact that it's easy to fly, the Karma works with the GoPro Hero4 ($134.00 at Amazon UK) (Opens in a new window), a camera that many outdoor enthusiasts already have in their backpacks. At a launch event this week near Lake Tahoe, Calif., CEO Nick Woodman offered some vaguely apologetic explanations for the drone's lengthy development. We now know Karma is a concrete product, though it won't go on sale until Oct. The company first teased a new line of "multi-rotor helicopters" outfitted with high-definition cameras two years ago, and hinted that sales would begin in early 2016. GoPro's Karma drone has been a long time in the making.
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