this is the halo plus from extremi and today we're going to take a look
so the xgenie halo plus is a projector with a battery inside that means it's super portable
it's 1080p it runs android tv 10 and it gives out a whopping 900 ansi lumens 2. that's 100
more than the previous halo so you could say that this is the thinner younger sister
of the xg me horizon pro it's better to take out but is not as sharp or bright
no now i have done a review of the horizon pro so if you want me to do a side by side comparison
with these let me know in the comments below but let's break this down first of all let's look at
the design now it is quite a small projector it can fit quite easily in my hand and i can hold it
no problem at all it's got this really nice metal perforated finish and that works as an air intake
as well and then the air comes out the back and we also have our ports we have four inputs that is
power headphones hdmi and usb and then we also have our power button now separate from the power
button on the back on top we have two volume touch buttons and a pause play button there's also an
led there so you can see when it's on now at the front we have the lens and also the little auto
keystone sensor here now that works fantastically especially when paired with the autofocus now it's
a decent weight about 1.6 kilos having a battery in it does mean it is gonna weigh your bag down
a little bit more if you're taking it around but then again you wouldn't want it being too light
it does feel a bit heavy but it feels sturdy now there is also the rubber base that assists with
that you can also use this kickstand here to sort of wrench it up at an angle and there's a
little hole there for sticking it on a tripod now the remote is this fairly nice simple design you
have all your basic navigation buttons there with shortcuts to settings and things but there's also
a microphone and this button here which activates the google assistant that means you can get to
where you want to go without using all the buttons and by just asking the remote to take you there so
let's get it started now as this thing is portable we can pretty much just stick it anywhere and get
it going without the need of a power cable once we're where we want it to be we just turn it on
the projector will automatically line itself up with the wall and keystone it to create a
straight screen we can then make minor adjustments to how we might want it but it will do all of that
and focus itself ready to go with no input from us and what is great not only does it do that but it
also does obstacle avoidance which means you can put something in the way and it will be able to
change and move the screen out of the way of that obstacle now whenever the projector is moved or
nudged it will automatically do that again so you don't have to worry about someone knocking it and
knocking the projector out of focus now if you do feel like the projector is slightly out of focus
you can use the remote and press the little switch at the bottom then you can use the volume buttons
to slightly change the focus one way or the other now it runs android tv 10. android is pretty much
the standard for projectors and you see it on pretty much every single one that's out there but
on this one it does run great there isn't any sort of lag or delay whilst navigating everything is
running very quickly and very sharply especially when navigating and loading apps now all of our
settings are built into the android ui so you can either press this button here to get to them
or you can go through the android home page to get there too and from there you can change all of the
android settings and things like the picture settings to sort of try and extend the battery
life if you want to now speaking of battery life you'll definitely get a way of watching tv shows
on this and most movies honestly you're going to struggle using this off of the lead for your
lord of the rings marathon because extremely only rate it for two hours now realistically
you could probably extend that to up to three hours with some conservative settings and i got
about two and a half hours from just leaving it as standard now the benefit of this projector is how
flexible it is and because everything is built in it works a dream for streaming except netflix
i think netflix hates projector companies so far every projector that i've reviewed
doesn't support netflix and it's an absolute nightmare now you can plug in an external device
to get netflix but that sort of ruins some of the portability aspects of this projector so it is a
bit frustrating now how was the picture now it is a pretty decent picture when the conditions
are right ultimately this is a portable projector and it's running off of a battery so it doesn't
get as bright as some of the other projectors out there now it does support hdr10 and it does look
pretty good when it's used in a dark room on a dedicated screen the colors are fairly decent and
the image is surprisingly sharp considering it's only 1080p the issue is is that as soon as there's
any ambient light the image quality does suffer the 900 anti-lumens is okay in a dark room but
it's pretty much unwatchable during the day now if you use the projector close to a wall and
you get a really small screen that will make the brightness better but as soon as you're wanting to
fairly decent sized screen and there's sunlight in the room it's just not going to happen now you can
use this during the day and have some tv programs or things you're not really that interested in
watching for the quality of it things like kids tv shows and stuff like that but for actual
decent tv and movies you're gonna be wanting to use this in the dark now one of the things i do
really like about this is that you can use it anywhere and any surface can become a display you
can have it in the kitchen or then you can take it into the living room have it in your bedroom and
one of the major standouts is the speaker now it is from harman and carden and it sounds brilliant
considering the size of this little projector i'm so shocked by the amount of sound and the volume
that you can get from this so this is me sat by the projector talking and this is it at max volume
now we don't have uh arc or optical audio which ultimately you'd expect from a portable projector
because you're not going to hook it into your home theater setup but because the speaker on
it is so good you wouldn't really want those now can we use this for gaming yeah we can now there
is a low latency game mode which means you can get the input lag as low as 26.5 milliseconds you do
sacrifice some of the other features so you won't be able to use the keystoning feature because
that does slow everything down a little bit and honestly even when keystoning it's still perfectly
playable now it also runs at 60 hertz which means it's fairly smooth to play on as well i didn't see
any noticeable screen tearing or anything like that and gameplay was just nice and smooth no
tearing no juddering i was quite happy now one of the issues that a lot of people have is fan noise
how loud is the fan noise and it's not bad at all in fact i'll even show you so projector is on
and it is going i'm talking how loud i talk and if you can hear it then well done but i'll stop
and see if you can hear it it is very very quiet now a couple of things i think are really good
about this projector is the fact that it's got chromecast built in so you can easily chromecast
to it from your phone it also boots up super quick once you have it switched on you can put
it into hibernate mode and it can turn on within six seconds so guys i hope you enjoyed the video
make sure you put in the comments whether you want to see a comparison between this and the horizon
pro and if you want to see my review on that projector click here and i'll see the next one