Having really enjoyed my Insta360 One X, X2, and X3 cams over the years, I’ve bought—and been burned by—the tiny GO & GO2:

• In 2019 I wrote The tiny Insta360 GO looks clever. Sadly I found it far more glitchy than clever.
• In 2021 I wrote Insta360 GO 2: Finally a wearable cam that doesn’t suck? It was better, but I still can’t count on it to actually record. Thus it’s largely gathered dust.

And yet… I still believe that having an unobtrusive, AI-powered “wearable photographer” (as Google Clips sought to be) is a worthy and potentially game-changing north star. (See the second link above for some interesting history & perspective). So, damn if I’m not looking at the new GO 3 and thinking, “Maybe this time Lucy won’t pull away the football…”

Here’s Casey Neistat’s perspective: