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Mads and Ava use the Antigravity A1 360 drone and Gaussian splatting to create a photorealistic 3D rendering of their newly acquired property at Alligator Creek, preserving its appearance at the moment they received the keys.0:32 The A1 weighs 249 grams, captures 8K 360 footage, and uses FPV goggles rather than a screen-based controller — the camera follows head movement, and a double-tap button on the goggles switches to a passthrough view of the real world.2:20 A built-in flight simulator requires only the goggles and powered-off controller; Mads spent about 20 minutes in it before flying confidently.3:58 Standard battery gives roughly 20 minutes of flight; a high-capacity battery extends that to around 39 minutes but pushes the drone above the 249-gram regulatory threshold.8:41 For the Gaussian splatting capture, Mads flies a lawnmower grid pattern below 5 m/s and uses the SkyGenie orbit mode to circle the house automatically, shooting on an overcast day to avoid harsh shadows.8:10 Footage is processed in Mipmap — free tier limited to 500 frames, reconstruction quality set to ultra high — and the resulting gs.ply file is cleaned up in the free browser tool Supersplat before sharing.10:25

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