DJI goggle killer? XREAL 1 Pro+ 3D AR Glasses

What's going on guys? So about six months ago, I released a video where I was basically testing out if these RayNeo AR glasses could be used as a supplement for normal FPV goggles. I was able to use them for the Mini 5 Pro, the Avata 2, and even drones with O4 air units in them. That video is one of the biggest videos that I've done in a long time, so clearly there's a lot of people interested in whether or not you can use AR glasses. For things like flying drones. I think a lot of people were especially interested in the fact that you could use them with the Mini 5 Pro because currently still DJI has not released compatibility for the Mini 5 Pro and any FPV goggles. But the problem with the RayNeo AR glasses is they're pretty much as basic as they come. It's literally just a screen in here that stays in the same spot and you can watch stuff. A lot of the benefits of AR glasses is actually putting windows in certain parts of your vision so it stays there and you can look around and you just can't do that with the RayNeo ones. A couple weeks ago Xreal reached out to me and basically asked me to do that same type of test with their One Pro Plus glasses that are way more advanced than the RayNeo ones. I thought it was a cool opportunity to just kind of talk about a higher tier of AR glasses and see how they work flying drones. So these are the glasses right here and similarly to the RayNeos These are so small and if they are usable for flying drones that would be amazing. These things have so many cool features including a built-in spatial computing chip that can lock screens off in different parts of your vision and turning 2D videos into 3D videos in real time at up to 60 frames per second. I think these are going to be so sick for playing back drone flights that you shot in 2D. And watching them in 3D. As we speak, I have not tested these out yet, so I'm super curious to see how they perform. So in this video, I'm gonna go out and test these things. I'm going to test them with the Mini 5 Pro as well as the Avata 2. And we're gonna see if flying with more advanced glasses is actually better. So first off, let's take a look at the glasses themselves. So once you get them unboxed, here is what you have. So you have some incredibly simple buttons here. You basically just have the X button, The up and down button, and then on the top you have a quick button. There's a lot of tutorials on how exactly to use these buttons, and I was a little intimidated first off, but honestly you pick it up super quickly. Right here they have these adjustable nose pads, and then the actual arms of these are adjustable as well. They also have a Bose sound system inside, so you don't even need to use headphones. And overall they honestly just feel super comfortable and kind of look sick. Not gonna lie, these right here are the DJI Goggles 3 which is what I usually use to fly and you can see they're just huge. These things are tiny. And just a lot more sleek than the DJI Goggles. These also cost around $600. You can get the DJI Goggles N3 for $300, but those are even bigger. The Xreal Air 2 Pro Plus costs $599, so it's definitely not a cheaper alternative, but there's just so much more you can do with them. The screens on these things are super impressive. You get a 120Hz refresh rate, up to 1200 nits of brightness, and a 57 degree field of view. But probably the coolest feature that I mentioned before is the X1 chip. inside which allows you to have these 3D screens all around you. It's called 3DOF or three degrees of freedom. So basically, I can pin a screen right here, look this way with the glasses and the shades on the glasses automatically darken when I'm looking at that screen. But then when I go back this way, they They lighten up and I can see everything else around me. It genuinely looks like a real TV, like floating in front of your space. This is also super exciting for editing because I love editing on two monitors, but I can't bring monitors when I travel. So I could just have my computer at the desk and then have this big screen right above it, like a floating virtual monitor. You can even adjust the virtual screen all the way from 68 inches up to 556 inches, depending on how far away you want it to appear. All right, that's enough talking. Let's go outside. Let's hook these up to a couple different drones and see how it works. Alright guys so we are out here at a solid place to fly drones and the first thing I'm going to test out is flying it with the Mini 4 because honestly it's just so simple. Now this right here is the DJI RC2. The thing that makes this controller compatible is the fact that this port at the bottom, this USB-C, is a display port. So one thing you have to do to check compatibility is make sure the controller that you're using does have a display port. And if it does, it's insanely simple. So I'm gonna turn it on. I'm going to turn the drone on and put it out on the hood. The reason I'm in the car right now is because it's actually pretty rainy right now, but I think the drone will probably be fine. Let's get this going. And hooking everything up to these glasses is so incredibly simple. You literally just take the glasses out and then plug this curvy end right here into the end of the glasses. You don't have to do the curvy end, but it does work a little bit better. And then you just take the other end and plug it into the USB-C port of the DJI RC2. And I have actually tested this out already and I figured out that in order to get this to work, you do have to change a super quick setting on the glasses. And the process to get these to actually work with the drone is super simple. You just need to go to the menu and you need to go to the spot where it says display mode and you just need to change that from movie to standard. Okay, so right now I have the screen. Right in front of me and it's on follow mode so I'm going to try to demonstrate this on video but basically what's happening right now is the screen is following me wherever I go and it's the center of my screen but a really cool use case and what I think is going to be really nice with the mini in particular is just putting the screen right in front of you that way you can look around in your surroundings and the screen is just in front so all you have to do to do that is tap the X button. Boom. And now, it's kind of hard for you to see right now, but the screen is right in front of me and it feels like I'm watching a huge movie display. Some rotors are spinning up. Boom. All right, and we are off to the races. Change this. I gotta change this setting really quick. And it's so sick because I can look down and hold my controller, change the settings really easily, and then I look up and the big drone screen is right there. And it's so cool how the shades change. So right now it's super transparent when I'm looking at you guys and then I go back to the screen the whole screen darkens and so it's really immersive. And I gotta say the screen is so freaking nice. You can see those storm clouds coming in. Let's get a couple more shots. I don't really feel any latency at all which is pretty surprising. Amazing. But it's really nice for this and another thing I was super curious about was using these things outside during the day and I know it's a bit of a cloudy day but this screen seems incredibly bright and I really don't think there would be any problem using these on a bright day. And just general reactions wearing the glasses these things are so light it actually feels like I'm just wearing a pair of sunglasses and it's way less intrusive than wearing full FPV glasses. All right, let's get this drone back and let's give it a shot with the Avata 2. The steps aren't super complicated, but they're a little bit more in-depth than they are with the Mini 5. All right, guys, so let's talk about how to get this to work with your FPV drones. I'm going to be flying the Avata 2 today, but it also works the same exact way with O4 drones. So you're going to want to take your goggles, get those on. And essentially what the workaround here is, is you can wirelessly stream your goggle feed to your phone. And then once it's on your phone, you plug the glasses into your phone and then you can view it there. Okay, so now what I'm doing is you basically swipe down on your goggles, you move the toggle over here, and you want to hit share live view to mobile device via wi-fi. Hit okay. And then I'm going to take my phone here and then I'm going to come to the bottom corner over here where you see DJI Goggles 3 connected. So there I'm going to hit go fly and then boom I have the entire feed on my phone. All I need to do now is plug the glasses into my phone and it's going to mirror what's on the phone. So put these goggles on boom and my feed is right there. Like I said there might be a little bit of latency here so I'm very curious to see how Well, this is going to work, but I think we're good to go here. So I'm going to take the drone off. Boom. All righty. So we're locked and loaded. I'm going to get out a little bit. And you can probably tell on the screen, there is a slight bit of latency. I'm going to go into manual mode and see how that goes. There we go. Okay. So yeah, as you can see on the feed right now, some frames do drop a little bit. It's like a tiny millisecond here, tiny millisecond there. It's nothing too terrible, but kind of how I expected it to be. I think this is a better use case to let others spectate your flights because it doesn't really matter that much. And I'd be fine flying like this if I wasn't doing super technical flights. Like if I'm up high, this is totally fine. And it's so cool that I can just see my surroundings. I'm gonna try locking the screen at right there. Okay, so it's not on follow mode. I can look around I can actually look at the drone up in the sky and then I can come back and lock into the screen which is actually really really handy to have. It'd be really nice for landing the drone. I'll try to do a bit of a little not super technical flight but just something a little bit lower just to test it out. The reality is as long as you're pretty dialed dropping a couple tiny frames doesn't affect the flight that much. I wouldn't want to do like a house fly through But it is pretty sick right now. Flying FPV with just normal glasses. Wow, that is so sick. I'm just going to rip a couple more quick shots here in manual mode. See what we can get. This is actually so sick. Yeah, I mean this frame skipping isn't great, but it's just because the phone itself is frame skipping a tiny little bit. And you actually can get pretty, pretty solid lines here. Not too bad. Sick, this is so cool. Okay, and I can look up at the drone. Now because the lenses has changed, I can see the drone and boom, we're good to go. Wow that was so sick. The super nice thing about these glasses is you don't need to have these giant goggles on your face and honestly I think the best use case for this is having people spectate your flights. It's so simple to set up and it's just really cool when you're flying FPV to share what you're filming because when you're flying a normal drone you're looking at a screen other people can watch it's this big community cool thing but With FPV, it's not really like that. Now, I am incredibly stoked to take the footage back into my computer, upload it, and then watch it back in 3D on these glasses. So I will see you guys back in the studio. All right, so we are back in the studio, and just now I put the drone videos onto my computer. So now I'm going to quickly test out the 2D to 3D conversion. Super simple, just plugging the cord now into my computer. Let's pull up the video file, okay, and switch a couple quick settings here. Switching from 2D to 3D. All right, let's hit play. Wow, I have no idea how they do this, but this looks so sick. Might get just totally sucked into this. I could watch this for hours. This makes me so excited to watch movies on these screens. Flying drones for these things and watching the footage back is a really cool use case for these, but they can do so much more. Like I mentioned before, if you're trying to edit off of your laptop, you can just post a virtual monitor anywhere. If you're working in a cafe, you can easily have multiple monitors you're working off of. I'm also super stoked to bring these on a plane to watch movies on, especially with the 2D to 3D conversion. It literally feels like you're in a movie theater. And also when you're flying on planes, I have this problem where I'm constantly looking down at my phone and it just ends up with me having a bunch of neck pain. But with these, I can just plug it into my phone, have it mirror the movie, and just sit, post it up in the screen, and that's going to be so much better. It can be used with phones, computers, gaming consoles, and handheld gaming devices. Okay, so let's go over final thoughts here. As far as working with drones and being a viable DJI goggle alternative, these things are great. Like I mentioned, if you're flying FPV drones, there is a tiny, tiny bit of latency because you have to go from the goggles to your phone, and then from your phone to the glasses. So I'm not sure if I would use these if I was doing super technical flights around obstacles, but if you're doing a flight that's not super technical or you just want one of your friends to be able to watch what you're doing, these things are so sick. And when you're flying the mini, it is so nice to be able to post the virtual screen right up here and then be able to look down at your actual controller. And the screen doesn't follow you. You can keep it right in front of you as if there was a giant TV out in nature. And really, the biggest advantage here over something like the RayNeo glasses that I reviewed earlier is you're not just buying something to use as replacements for FPV goggles. You're buying something that can be used for so many different applications. Now, at $599, these things definitely aren't super cheap. But considering the screen quality, the spatial features and just how versatile they are, the 2D to 3D thing is so It's so sick, I can't even put it on camera, I can't explain how cool it is. But I think there's a lot of people out there that would rather pay a little bit of extra money to have those extra features. If you want to check out the One Pro Plus glasses, there's a link in the description below. If you are already going to buy them, it would mean a ton to me if you use that link because I just get a small kickback and it helps me make more videos like this. As always, if you have any questions, make sure to leave them in the comments down below. But that's it for this video, I will see you on the next one. Peace.