 Hey, it's Ben Popper with The Verge. I'm hanging out in China with the new DJI Osmo Mobile. So this is the newest version of DJI's handheld stabilizer. And as you can see, what makes it interesting is it's not using DJI's proprietary drone camera. It's using whatever smartphone you have. So you know, DJI made the Osmo. It costs about five or six hundred bucks. And the only camera it used was the one that you get on the DJI Phantom 4 drone. Now obviously a lot of vloggers picked up the Osmo and found it to be a really useful tool, but what they're hoping to do is live stream to Facebook and Snapchat and YouTube. So now they can use their own phone, they can use their own apps, but still have the Osmo's stabilization technology. With the Osmo Mobile, you connect using Bluetooth, which means your Wi-Fi is free. That's really important if you're a live streamer looking to get something up on Facebook or YouTube. So another important change with the Osmo Mobile is that the jack that used to be for an external microphone is now accessible for powering up the Osmo. That's really great if you're out shooting in the field. It's much easier to plug into a mobile power source and shoot all day. So this one will cost a lot less since it comes with no camera, about two hundred bucks, but it does have another really interesting and powerful feature. It has the computer vision and autonomous tracking that's built into the DJI Phantom 4 drone. So I can draw a box around a subject, say a race car, or around my own face, and then the camera will do the job of tracking for me. I can walk around, I can look at something else, and it will make sure to always keep me in frame. Okay, so this is me vlogging Shenzhen using the new DJI Osmo Mobile. What's really incredible about this is that I can turn on face tracking and it's now got me identified. And so I can stop looking at the camera, I can just wander around and talk about Shenzhen and look in the air. Even though I'm not paying any attention to the camera, I can move it from my right hand to my left. It's always going to keep me in frame because it knows exactly what my face looks like, and it's locked onto that as a subject. So the DJI Osmo Mobile is meant to work with any standard smartphone. I have my iPhone 6 in here, but this little back part here can open and unscrew, and you can go all the way up to the largest Samsung phones. And obviously this being a tool that they want you to use with your own phone and apps like Snapchat, it does have portrait mode. So this has been Ben Popper with The Verge here in Shenzhen, China checking out the DJI Osmo Mobile. It's a new handheld stabilizer that works with any phone. It should be around $200 and come out in the next month. And on top of making it possible to use your phone with the Osmo, it now adds some advanced computer vision and automatic tracking, which is pretty cool.
 Hey, it's Ben Popper with The Verge.
 I'm hanging out in China with the new DJI Osmo Mobile.
 So this is the newest version of DJI's handheld stabilizer.
 And as you can see, what makes it interesting is it's not using DJI's proprietary drone
 camera.
 It's using whatever smartphone you have.
 So you know, DJI made the Osmo.
 It costs about five or six hundred bucks.
 And the only camera it used was the one that you get on the DJI Phantom 4 drone.
 Now obviously a lot of vloggers picked up the Osmo and found it to be a really useful
 tool, but what they're hoping to do is live stream to Facebook and Snapchat and YouTube.
 So now they can use their own phone, they can use their own apps, but still have the
 Osmo's stabilization technology.
 With the Osmo Mobile, you connect using Bluetooth, which means your Wi-Fi is free.
 That's really important if you're a live streamer looking to get something up on Facebook or
 YouTube.
 So another important change with the Osmo Mobile is that the jack that used to be for
 an external microphone is now accessible for powering up the Osmo.
 That's really great if you're out shooting in the field.
 It's much easier to plug into a mobile power source and shoot all day.
 So this one will cost a lot less since it comes with no camera, about two hundred bucks,
 but it does have another really interesting and powerful feature.
 It has the computer vision and autonomous tracking that's built into the DJI Phantom
 4 drone.
 So I can draw a box around a subject, say a race car, or around my own face, and then
 the camera will do the job of tracking for me.
 I can walk around, I can look at something else, and it will make sure to always keep
 me in frame.
 Okay, so this is me vlogging Shenzhen using the new DJI Osmo Mobile.
 What's really incredible about this is that I can turn on face tracking and it's now got
 me identified.
 And so I can stop looking at the camera, I can just wander around and talk about Shenzhen
 and look in the air.
 Even though I'm not paying any attention to the camera, I can move it from my right hand
 to my left.
 It's always going to keep me in frame because it knows exactly what my face looks like,
 and it's locked onto that as a subject.
 So the DJI Osmo Mobile is meant to work with any standard smartphone.
 I have my iPhone 6 in here, but this little back part here can open and unscrew, and you
 can go all the way up to the largest Samsung phones.
 And obviously this being a tool that they want you to use with your own phone and apps
 like Snapchat, it does have portrait mode.
 So this has been Ben Popper with The Verge here in Shenzhen, China checking out the DJI
 Osmo Mobile.
 It's a new handheld stabilizer that works with any phone.
 It should be around $200 and come out in the next month.
 And on top of making it possible to use your phone with the Osmo, it now adds some advanced
 computer vision and automatic tracking, which is pretty cool.