Insta360 has officially confirmed it’s working on a new pocket-sized camera designed to take on DJI’s popular Osmo Pocket lineup. The upcoming device, called the Insta360 Luna, arrives at a moment when compact gimbal cameras are heating up again—especially after Vivo also signaled it’s exploring a similar product category.
While Insta360 hasn’t pinned down an exact release date yet, the company has teased a clear window: the Luna is expected to launch before July. That alone is enough to put it on the radar of creators who want a small, stabilized camera for travel videos, vlogging, and everyday shooting without hauling a full-size setup.
A newly surfaced patent adds more clues about what the Insta360 Luna may bring to the table, particularly around its camera hardware. The most interesting detail is that its dual camera modules reportedly won’t be working together to combine imagery into a single output. Instead, the setup sounds closer to what you’d find on a modern smartphone: one standard wide camera for everyday shooting (1x) paired with a telephoto camera that delivers 3x optical zoom.
The patent also suggests the Luna will rely on a mobile-style chipset with an integrated image signal processor (ISP), which handles much of the heavy lifting for image processing. On top of that, there’s said to be an additional chip placed before the ISP in the processing chain. This secondary pre-ISP component is intended to tackle common issues early—reducing image noise, improving brightness, and enhancing shadow detail—before the main ISP finalizes the image.
Control-wise, the Insta360 Luna appears to focus on fast, tactile shooting. Zoom switching is described as being handled either through a dedicated joystick or via touchscreen gestures on a fold-out viewfinder. That combination points to a creator-friendly design aimed at quick framing changes on the move, whether you’re recording handheld walk-and-talk footage or capturing distant details without stepping closer.
Overall, the emerging picture is of a compact gimbal camera with a smartphone-inspired dual-lens approach, plus extra attention paid to image processing and usability. With the product expected before July, the next few months should reveal how Insta360 positions the Luna for vloggers and mobile filmmakers—and how it stacks up against the next wave of pocket gimbal cameras already rumored to be close behind.
