As part of the latest update to its iOS app, GoPro has added an Apple Watch app with simple controls like start / stop recording, camera previews, and the ability to add highlight tags.
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The Watch app is compatible with the GoPro HERO3 or any of the company’s Wi-Fi equipped cameras, though previewing shots on the Apple Watch isn’t compatible with the HERO3 or the HERO2 with Wi-Fi Bacpac.
This may irk those in the PC world, but walk into a media room at any sporting event and nearly every photographer is using a Mac computer, and many photographers are adopting the GoPros as remotes or point of view recording devices, mounting the small cameras to their digital SLR cameras. According to app intelligence platform appFigures, there are 2,624 apps available in the tvOS App Store. However, control with Apple Watch is limited to select shooting modes including Video, Photo, Burst Photo, and Time Lapse Photo. We did that with our GoPro cameras, and we see a similar opportunity in the quadcopter market.
Among the updated apps is also the Apple Watch application, which has previously disappeared after its presentation in September.
There are quite a few known issues with the app for iOS, though. Users will be able to scroll through the video for individual images, which can then be saved just like a screenshot.
These updates will certainly come in handy when controlling Karma, GoPro’s forthcoming drone.
The content produced by GoPro’s amateur and professional users might also integrate well with Apple TV, Ives said.
Despite the ongoing weakness, GoPro shares jumped in the last trading session, after the company revealed a glimpse of its upcoming Karma drone, scheduled to be launched in 2016.
“Take a moment to look around you”. All of this, a dream. News was circulating as early as 2014 that the company was developing a drone and the management confirmed it at this year’s Code Conference.
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With GoPro starting to begin the marketing of the Karma, it is possible that they are gearing up for a launch at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which begins in Las Vegas on 5th January 2016. Those who signed up will have a chance to win one of 100 Karma drones that will be given away for free.
