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My guess would be that they are using the video camera for gesture tracking. This the same reason the photo selfies are low/video resolution (1440x1080) instead of full 12MP photos. This is complete speculation on my part, but I imagine in the future, that once you make the selfie hand gesture, the drone has about 3 seconds before it takes the photo. During that time, it could drop gesture tracking and switch to the full res camera. I also imagine, as long as it was hovering, it could take video. The issue would be if you moved, then the drone would no longer be following for because the camera for tracking was busy capturing video.
It would also need to be able to reaquire tracking once the photo was done so you could land it in your palm and that might be a problem. Having said that, I think those problems are surmountable with software and firmware updates.
I don't think many folks are moving around in between shots once the drone is positioned and I would prefer for it to lose the tracking, take high res shots and then I have to walk back up to the drone and have it reacquire my palm only (by holding it up in front of the drone) for a palm landing.
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