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what most intriguing things about the switch its housed an absolute goldmine for weird or different out-of-the-box accessories to make use of its Portability and I think one of the ones that has stood out the most to me ever since it first made its debut on IndieGoGo is the Oh Joe portable switch projector dock the Ojo is a small portable projector that very heavily lends itself to being used with a switch so much so that it's even mimicked the switches dock design so they're able to load it right here like you loot the dock but instead of it just acting as a place to charge the switch or display the signal it's actually pushing it out of a projector built into the dock itself now but we're going in depth of things like image quality brightness and just well how well it works as a projector something I want to talk about and really praise about this guy is how user-friendly it is it is super portable and really easy to use not only is it nice and small and compact and easy to carry around but it also actually has an internal battery that will allow it to run for up to four hours so yeah you can plug it into a wall and use it like a standard projector but you can also use it on the go or out in the wild without plugging into anything like we have right here right now it is running just off of battery power and clearly working on top of that this thing is really really easy to set up I mean just like with a regular switch dock the way you have to hook up the switch is to just drop it into the dock design that's gonna get the video signal running and then getting the actual projector going is really simple it actually automatically Keystone's for the vertical axis so what that means is when you're worrying about if it's pointing up too high or too low it's automatically making sure that the picture on the wall or surface whatever you're portraying it on is going to keep it a nice square image it doesn't do this for the horizontal so you still have to make sure that it's like pointing straight it can be a little to the left a little too right but only worrying about what axis is a lot easier than worrying about both and that's really it it's just making sure that's pointed straight and you mess with the focus a little and it's good to go super simple so once you have it all set up how well does it work well this projector in particular is 1,200 lumens so if it's on sort of the mid high range level for most consumer projectors which basically means that it's bright enough that it'll work in a dim room but for optimal settings you definitely want to use it in something that's either a very dark room where there's no other light sources or you're outside at nighttime you could use it during the day but it's not going to be the clearest image now as for how large this image can be all the tech specs for the Ojo reference that it does a maximum size of 120 inches but I think we can push it a little are than that so we're outside of our offices and there just so happens to be a building that has white walls so we're gonna see how clear this image is once we've won we've kind of awesome it develo blurry with the resolution but kind of amazing by the way if you want some more pics of this guy as well as just other cool stuff we've been shooting lately make sure to check out my Instagram it's linked down below check it out now where the Ojo starts to have some problems though is when it comes to just raw image quality 1200 lumens is enough to get a good bright picture in a dark room but the projector is only 480 P which admittedly the image doesn't look quite as bad as I thought it would have that resolution but at the same time it's far from optimal I mean yeah you can have the projector make only a small screen close up against a wall and it look pretty good but that's also kind of defeating part of the point of using a projector so you can get a much larger image where it also runs into problems is its speaker quality does have built-in speakers and it'll sound okay if they're running nice and quiet but as soon as you try to get the volume to any kind of appreciable degree of loud it just doesn't sound good at all now it does have an audio out so you can hook it into some headphones or another stereo set but that kind of counts as a bit of a ding against its main strength portability now to balance things out a little bit another big string of Theo Joe is that it is a very versatile little piece of tech I mean it is marketed primarily as being a projector for the switch but it actually also features an HDMI IN so you can really hook up any device with an HDMI out to it and use it as just a nice little portable projector along with that it also doubles as a battery bank that you can use with your switch or any other devices of that need charging you're actually able to switch it between an off mode projector mode or just a power supply mode where you can plug in anything to its USB airports and provide a charge now this is only at 5 volts 2 amps so it's not exactly going to be something that's going to bring your switch back to life very quickly but it is gonna give you a lot more battery life as long as you keep hooking it up also going back to portability a little bit one of the nice thing you can get with the Ojo is there is a bundle option to get a case and the case is actually really nice it gives you just up space to fit the Ojo itself the AC adapter for it a full switch with two joint comes attached and then some additional slots to fit a comfort grip or some additional joy cons I kind wish it had a place to also fit a switch pro controller but if there's anything that's gonna be missing that's fine everything else makes for an awesome little portable switch set up over all the Ojo is a really awesome little portable projector whose only real problem is that it's capped at 480p I mean if your focus is having something that's an alternative to a TV or getting the best visual way possible of a game it's not the strongest choice but where it really excites me is this idea of a portable switch set up especially for multiplayer games I mean the idea of being able to play Smash Brothers once it comes out with this little portable case and just set up wherever you want for competitive matches is really cool