Snap to shelve development of its Pixy drone camera: Report

San Francisco, Aug 19 (IANS) Just 4 months after unveiling its much-anticipated pocket-sized drone digicam Pixy, Snap is scrapping the development of its flying drone know-how, media stories say.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel informed workers at a Q&A session in regards to the selection to not develop the Pixy line, citing the Wall Street Journal, The Verge reported.

A supply informed the publication the corporate plans to promote the present Pixy, and that mannequin remains to be out there for buy on the Pixy web site.

The report talked about that, in an interview, Spiegel had teased that the corporate may contemplate a second iteration.

“The purpose is actually simply to get it in folks’s arms and have them mess around with it,” he was quoted as saying.

“And possibly we’d make extra with model two if folks love the unique product,” it added.

Pixy is alleged to be a pocket-sized system and may also help you create higher content material.

At the launch in April, Snap claimed that the drone digicam can robotically crop into portrait and apply fast Smart Edits, like Hyperspeed, Bounce, Orbit 3D and Jump Cut. And then, customers can share it to Chat, Stories, Spotlight, or every other platform.

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