Camera rumors in 2025: what cameras are coming, officially and otherwise!

GoPro rumors 2025

While I'm hearing more GoPro rumors than I can remember in recent memory, many of them are more to do with the company's very public struggles.

However, while GoPro's CEO has declined his salary for the rest of the year following a cull of 15% of the workforce, the company is committed to its planned launches – which will hopefully help dig it out of its $80 million hole.

Here are the GoPro rumors that have been whispered around the water cooler lately…

GoPro Max2

After an excruciating six-year wait, we will finally get a new GoPro Max this year – and by that I'm talking about an actual second-generation version, not the upcycled GoPro Max 360.

The company started teasing the camera in July, and images of prototypes have been popping up on Chinese social media – lending credence to the chatter about a September launch.

Reliable rumors about the specs have been hard to come by, though 8K seems almost a given at this point – and with the new super-impressive DJI Osmo 360, rocking a huge 1-inch square sensor, with 8K 50p video and 120MP stills, the measuring stick just changed big time.

GoPro Hero14

Like iPhones, new Heros come along like clockwork – so the fact that a GoPro Hero14 is on the way should come as no surprise.

While, again, not much is known about the Hero14, we do at least know a bit more than we do about the Max2 – namely that it will feature the next generation of the company's system on chip, GP3. This is GoPro's proprietary tech, responsible for improved image processing and overall performance.

However, "new image processor" isn't the sexiest thing to sell to prospective customers (and usually manifest as "10% faster" kind of bullet points) so the Hero14 will have to do more than that to win over an increasingly disillusioned audience.

GoPro tech helmet

GoPro has acquired Australian tech-enabled helmet manufacturer Forcite. However, while Forcite specializes in motorcycle helmets, GoPro intends to expand into other helmet markets – and also plans to partner with other manufacturers.

"In addition to our plan to develop our own GoPro-branded line of helmets, we are excited to partner with other leading helmet brands to help tech-enable their own helmet lines," said GoPro founder Nicholas Woodman. "We have great respect for established brands, and we look forward to working with them to help drive the industry forward, together."

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