What's going on YouTube, John Conrad here from DroneOneMedia.
And I'm really excited about today's video.
This box came in the mail today and I've been really excited about this product since it
was announced.
These are the DJI Goggles.
First off, we're gonna unbox it, I'll show you everything that's in the box and then
after that we're going to take it out and test it with my Phantom 4 Pro and see how
it does.
Alright, so let's see what's inside this box.
As you can see or I don't know if you can see this it says from DJI Technology.
So I'm gonna go ahead and take my oversized knife and unbox this thing.
So right on top I have a DJI official online store guidance.
It talks about tech support, repairs, and replacements.
My packing list there put that off to the side.
And there it is.
Looks a lot like the packaging you've come to expect from DJI looks a lot like the Apple
packaging very simple very clean looking.
So let's get this thing open so you have to actually unhook the handle there so these
tabs you have to pull those out and then this lid looks like I've got some tape there if
you can't tell, I don't do that many unboxing videos.
I apologize, not exactly the most well-produced but I think I've got it now.
Toss that over there.
Alright, so you open it up and that's what you see Goggles right on top along with some
nice foam to protect them.
Seem to be very well packaged so that's the first piece and here is the second piece so
really easy to take apart, just a single button here and then you just insert this end where
the band is in the Goggles.
Hear that nice click means they are good to go.
Try these on and I've got a big head so my fitted cap size is about seven and three quarters
[inches].
So I have a good sized noggin let's see if these fit me.
Oh yeah, room to spare very nice, and they're not that noticeable on your face.
Right?
They're not super heavy.
They look a lot heavier than they actually are but yeah, that's what they look like on.
So I'm sure I won't get anyone coming up to me in public asking me about these.
Once nice feature is you can flip them up so if you need to see your surroundings when
you're taking off or landing or if you need to talk to your spotter it's always a good
idea to have someone next to you watching your drone while you're under the hood, so
to speak.
That way they can look for obstacles where you might not see them through the camera
view itself so that's nice to have, man I can't wait to get these things powered on
and show you but let's put these aside and I'll show you what else is in the box so we've
got a little black box below it looks like we have some cables here so looks like an
HDMI cable looks like we've got a cleaning cloth a USB A to micro USB cord the plug DJI
gave you a wall plug to charge it which is nice and then looks like some documentation
at the bottom oh so this is a wire clip so they use it for cable management I guess you
can probably uh hook it on the side oh yeah so you can actually clip this on the side
and then you can run your cables through there so they aren't dangling and less likely to
get caught on something like your hand or your fingers nice touch so on the Goggles
themselves there aren't too many buttons but I'll run you through on this side there is
the power on off button so it works the exact same way as the intelligent flight batteries
work for the Phantom 3 and Phantom 4 you press it once and then press and hold and you can
hear the familiar sound it means that the Goggles have been turned on so I'll turn these
off for a second here while I run through everything else so right above the power button
is the touch pad and you actually use this as a primary controller for the Goggles themselves
and you can adjust the menus and settings on the bottom here you have a function button
and a return button for navigating through all the menus and then you also have this
little dial which adjusts you can actually see it here when you turn it the eye pieces
are moving left and right so you can actually adjust it based on where your eyes are to
make it most comfortable and have a better viewing experience and then on the back here
you see this dial this adjusts the size of the headband so you can make it smaller or
larger and then on the bottom is the micro USB port for charging battery is actually
built-in to the band very handy no external batteries or anything like that everything
is all built-in and you have a light right nearby to show you the charging status and
you may be wondering how long these take to charge the manual states 4 hours to charge
them if the battery is dead so not the fastest charging time but the run time of these goggles
are up to 6 hours so 4 hour charge time and they will run up to 6 hours and lastly this
little button here which I showed you earlier releases the band makes the Goggles more portable
for transportation to have them separated and really easy to connect them and one really
nice thing about the DJI Goggles is each screen is a 1080P screen the Goggles are able to
transmit 1080P at 30 frames per second in close proximity when your drone is nearby
and then switches to either 720p at 30 seconds or 720p at 60 seconds as you get further away
which is really nice because a lot of the goggles that I have seen are lower resolution
so you get really high-quality video feed when you're close by with the drone full 1080p
can't wait to get these things fired up and show you what its like to use the DJI Goggles
I'm going to go charge them, and then we're going to head out to the field stay tuned
so I'm out here at the local park and now I'm going to test out the DJI Goggles with
my Phantom 4 pro and uh before we get started I just wanted to let you guys know that make
sure if you do not own the Magic if you're running with either the Phantom 4 or the Phantom
4 Pro or the Inspire 2 you need to make sure you download the latest version of the DJI
Assistant because that's actually how you're able to activate the Goggles to be able to
work with the drone if you own a Mavic its really easy you can do it with your mobile
device and activate your Goggles that way but either the Phantom 4, the Phantom 4 Pro
or the Inspire if you're running one of those drones make sure you have the latest DJI Assistant
2 version installed that was a mouthful lets go fly and to connect the DJI Goggles to your
controller its very simple you just take the micro USB to USB A cable thats included in
the box with the Goggles.
Plug the micro USB end into the Goggles and plug the USB A into your controller just as
you would your smartphone or tablet what you normally use on your controller the Goggles
are taking place of that there is actually a way that you can plug these in using the
HDMI port to the HDMI port on the controller and you can use it that way say if you're
on set your filming or you're with a friend and you want to be able to use your tablet
or smartphone with your controller while your friend or the director of photography or whoever
it may be they are able to watch the live feed through the Goggles so you just need
a mini HDMI to micro HDMI cable and you can make that work as well for today I'm just
going to be using the Goggles in place of my tablet that I normally use and Ally is
here to be my spotter to make sure I don't run into any weeds or trees in the park so
I'm going to take off my hat put on the Goggles and one thing I want to mention you can actually
wear the DJI Goggles with glasses so its got large enough cut outs that even people with
glasses are able to use the Goggles while wearing their glasses thats a nice feature
that not a lot of headsets have alright so just power it up here power my controller
and power up the drone okay so I have live feed and its saying my live view is 1080p
at 30 frames per second currently because I am in close proximity as I go farther away
that's expected to change to 720p at 30 frames per second so I'm going to start this flight
in the HD mode and go ahead and take off wow that's really neat it tells you your bank
information and all your data that you would normally see on the tablet is being displayed
on the Goggles it gives you all the necessary data that you need while in flight or you
can enter the full-screen mode and it takes all of that away and you're able to experience
what it's like to be in the cockpit of an airplane or basically its like being in the
cockpit of your drone so its really really neat the best way I can describe it is like
sitting in front of a giant movie projector and right now its in 1080p and its really
immersive as DJI said when they first announced these just feels like you're in the air flying
with your drone so its really cool lets continue the flight now I'm testing out the head tracking
gimbal and I'm controlling the drone with the sticks and controlling the gimbal completely
with my head movements which is definitely not ideal for filming but really neat if your
just wanting to show a friend how cool your new DJI Goggles are you can look up you can
look down thats really neat alright so I turned the head tracking off because I was getting
a little dizzy but thats a really neat feature and I'm going to go ahead and try the head
tracking flight you can look up and down to control the pitch between -120 degrees and
50 degrees and you can turn your head left or right to yaw the drone left and right so
I'm actually turning the drone and its slowing turning as I turn my head now I have my expo
settings dialed down to make for smoother movements so certainly if you brought that
up and brought your gimbal pitch speed up it would follow your head pretty quickly but
mines a little slow because I have my motion turned down so we've had it in HD mode now
we're going to try it in smooth mode so for smooth mode its 720p at 60 frames per second
so it gives a very smooth feel to the motion when you're looking through the Goggles its
twice as many frames as the typical 30 so lets try that out now oh wow ok smooth mode
is very different because its really really smooth which is nice you can just see with
the gimbal movements how smooth that is you can see the 720p is very smooth which is really
nice and I'm currently about 400 feet away and [the connection] is rock solid lets go
a little farther see if it remains smooth the entire way
a little altitude here so it has a nice strong signal so yeah thats still 720p at 60 frames
per second and I'm oh id say a little over 1000 feet away this is pretty unbelievable
um its just like flying with your drone its so cool and I can't wipe this grin off my
face so that should that'll tell you all you need to know
alright so just got done with my flight here using the Goggles and I have to say they're
pretty awesome the one hiccup I did have with them is when I switched to the smooth mode
which is 720p at 60 frames per second it kept losing connection on my controller um it happened
to me three separate times I thought I lost signal but I really wasn't that far away I
was only 1000 feet away so I thought that was kind of strange I flipped it back into
HD mode which is 30 frames per second and I didn't have any connection issues so I'm
not quite sure if its a software bug or whats going on but theres something wrong with the
smooth view when connecting it to a controller if anyone else is using these and using them
with a Mavic the occusync system let me know if you're having the same issue or with the
Phantom 4 if you're having this issue comment down below and let me know whats going on
but I'm sure its just a software thing that they have to fix but for right now the smooth
view which is the 60 frames per second setting I could not get it to work without dropping
the connection and I double checked my wires and it was fine so I'm not quite sure what's
going on but the HD view worked flawlessly and its pretty amazing you definitely feel
like your flying with your drone the other cool thing is when you're done using them
with your drone you can plug them in to any HDMI device you could plug them into a gaming
console, cable or satellite tv box, I mean you could watch tv you could watch movies
play video games all with the Goggles so thats a nice added benefit as well so I have to
say they are a little on the expensive side you know $450 is not a cheap price but at
the same time the quality seems to be very high the footage that you do see in the Goggles
seems to be very high and its 1080p when its close by and 720p as the drone gets farther
away which is more than enough you can get a great view through the Goggles I have to
say I would definitely recommend these to anyone who can afford them they are a really
neat piece of technology and the long battery life of 6 hours is great too if you're watching
a movie or if you're flying all day with multiple batteries you don't have to worry too much
about the Goggles going out on you.
I will be testing the battery on these and be doing a video on that in the future so
stay tuned for that and uh yeah let m know what you think of the video um really excited
to do some more testing on these and let me know what you think in the comments below
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any upcoming videos I'm John Conrad for DroneOneMedia thank you so much for watching and ill catch
you in the next video.