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there's always these promotional materials of every drone or quadcopter being flown above the mountaintops or in the remote wilderness but what you can't see unless you look really closely is the gigantic Pelican that was used to carry it there and don't get me started on the whole enjoy the thrill of flight as you soar through the air they always leave off the bit about on a tiny little screen with so much glare you can't see jack well all of that ends today DJI sent us one of the first early units of their first person view flight goggles and a Mavic Pro the fully featured drone that's small enough to put in your pants if you're into that sort of thing I buy power and MSI's new lineup of gaming laptops featured Intel 7th generation Core i7 processors check them out at the link below I haven't actually reviewed the DJI Mavic pro yet so before we get into the experience of using the brand new DJI goggles I feel like it deserves some attention when it comes to features there's nothing especially groundbreaking about it on paper it could almost be summarized as a miniature phantom for the arms for the front motors fold out from the side the arms for the rear motors fold down from the bottom and like a Falken you'll need to remove the hood before you fly and that's pretty much it you're ready to go even the quick-release rotors can be left in place during transport and will unfold themselves once you start the drone it comes with a surprisingly economic and compact controller that can be used independently or with a real-time feed from the camera that's much lower latency than before thanks to occu sync by plugging in your phone with the included cables it's got microSD expansion with the ability to save a backup copy of the streamed video to your device it's got ultrasonic sensors and dual downward facing cameras front-facing cameras for collision detection that works great as long as the thing in front of you isn't glass the onboard GPS enables a handful of different autonomous modes but there are still some issues from my perspective neither the mode that attempts to recognize you based on a short setup process nor the one that tracks your location based on following the GPS signal from the controller is capable of changing height relative to you so if you go up a mountain or down it it will run out of ground or lose sight of you point of interest though is solid for getting smooth footage in a circle around an object but manual control is pretty much where it's at from my perspective the Mavic smaller size ends up being both a pro and a con its agility not to mention the much high quality of its metal and plastic construction our strong points that enable it to go into areas that might concern owners of larger more fragile drones but even in the much higher performance sport mode that can go up to 65 kilometers an hour it's not the fastest out there and it's a touch more susceptible to gusts the with that said in normal conditions once again I've got to hand it to the engineers at DJI you've got to speed up the footage to make it feel like anything but a tripod in the sky the 4k camera can be evaluated two ways from a professional standpoint I could discuss how the one in 2/3 inch sensor doesn't handle low-light as well as the higher-end phantom 4 pro or how the recording compression makes 4k off the Mavic look more like 1080 off of a good camcorder but from a consumer or even prosumer standpoint all of that really goes out the window if you're just looking for dope AF aerial footage of whatever cool thing you're doing you're going to absolutely love this thing but will you love it from a first-person perspective the DJI goggles as they're calling them put you right in the cockpit of your drone after a very short setup process using the onboard touch pad or the controller once you've paired it to register your fpv headset you just lower the blast shield and you're dropped into what is effectively a gigantic movie theater full of where you're flying and impressively thanks to DJ eyes use of dual full HD displays their goggles have got to be the best-looking virtual theater I've seen yet with almost no discernible screen door effect where you can see gaps between the pixels so I spent most of my time in the mode that moves the camera gimbal according to your head position and the new fixed-wing mode that kind of flies where you look like a like a head steered airplane would and if you're an aerial sights here who has never done fpv before like me you're going to be absolutely blown away the latency on the connection while not low enough to keep me from getting a little nauseated if I stood up or tried to move around while I'm flying made the controls super intuitive to use and the video quality whether you choose 720p at 60 FPS or 1080p at 30fps was sharp enough that I never once found myself thinking you know this is okay but it would be so much better if I popped the microSD out of the drone and then into the goggles after the fact to watch the full quality clip and I guess yeah that's kind of a cool thing too you can watch movies in your private theater using the onboard speakers or headphone jack if you want to but now we have to talk drawbacks thanks to their omnidirectional antenna array in the headband their battery their dual displays etc DJ eyes goggles are heavier and less comfortable than I wish that they were and there's also significant light bleed around the nose I'd prefer something that has more of a strap like system to hold it against my face but that's honestly far from the biggest thing preventing me from recommending that you run out and buy a pair right now for four hundred and fifty bucks you may have noticed that in all of my footage using the Mavic Pro and the goggles I've got somebody with me well this is mandated by law in the US because you're legally required in most areas that I'm aware of any way to maintain line-of-sight with your aircraft something that's obviously not possible inside an enclosed helmet so the DJI goggles like many things in life I guess are best enjoyed with a friend to keep an eye on your drone for you but that's tough for people like me who frankly just don't have any friends further complicating matters for recreational drone users Canada's latest batch of restrictions makes the operation of a UAV like this one illegal basically anywhere but the wilderness which is why some of our footage which was taken before these regulations were added to the Criminal Code near our office and some of it was taken in the middle of corn beam nowhere after the rule change I mean some of what they're doing does make sense to help keep people safe but a lot of it frankly feels over restrictive so I guess if you've made it this far in the video thinking wow this thing looks awesome that thing looks awesome but I don't even think I'd be able to use it in my area then I guess what I have to say is get some discussion 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