DJI Avata 2 & Goggles 3 // NEXT GENERATION OF FPV IS HERE!

this is the new DJI avata 2 and these

are the new DJI goggles 3 and today

we're going to take a look at them we're

going to see what they bring to the

table and what it means for people in

the world of fpv drones I'm Joshua

Bardwell and you're going to learn

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eternally before we get into the review

of this product I got to get my normal

sort of disclosure statement out of the

way and normally that is just some text

down in the corner of the screen but

this is kind of a big one so I want to

make sure it doesn't get missed just

like usual I received this stuff from

DJI I didn't buy it with my own money

and I will be keeping it after the video

is over that's pretty much always true

uh I have not received any cash or other

forms of compensation and exchange for

this video that's also pretty much

always true and DJI has not seen this

video or had any feedback about this

video and has not placed any

prohibitions on what is not allowed to

be in this video what you see right here

is the least amount of money you can

spend to get into this kit at least as

of the time of release it includes the

DJI avata 2 and a single battery the DJI

goggles 3 and the motion hand controller

and I know there's people out there who

are thinking that they don't like the

motion hand controller very much having

used it on the DJI aato 1 I've got to

say that I think this works better than

it did with the avato 1 and we'll demo

that later in the video and you can

judge for yourself but if you do want

the hand controller you can get it the

hand controller 3 can be purchased

separately and allows you to fly the

Avada 2 like a normal drone and yeah I

did say hand controller 3 they have

introduced a new hand controller it

looks pretty much the same as the hand

controller too except it's got an

internal antenna and no at the time of

release this will not be compatible with

the hand controller to if you already

own it shocker DJI is making you buy new

gear even though you bought gear in the

last generation too so what's the deal

with compatibility at the time of

release the DJI Ava 2 will not be

compatible with any of the current fpv

system equipment the goggles 2 the

goggles Integra the hand controller 2 or

the motion controller 2 although I'm not

sure how many people even bought that

thing it is not compatible with any of

that stuff the uh paperwork that I got

from DJI says temporarily incompatible

which suggests that at some point in the

future they might make it compatible but

if you look back at the release of some

of their previous systems at time of

release they were not backwards

compatible and then later it got added

in a firmware presumably after they'd

hit some kind of sales goal for the

equipment however the goggles 3 are

backwards compatible with the DJI air3

and the Mini 4 pro at time of release

and if you're using the goggles 3 with

those drones and you already own the DJI

controller too then they will work so

we know it's possible it's just a

question of when they unlock it in

firmware and if one battery is not

enough for you you can buy this bundle

which includes the goggles the Drone and

the motion controller as previously

stated but in addition it includes this

bag which is actually kind of nice and

this three battery charger and three

batteries let's take a look at some key

differences between the previous

generation of these products and the new

generation and we'll start with the

goggles and the first thing you're going

to notice about the goggles is that they

have a built-in battery pack here at the

back of the headstrap similar to the DJI

goggles Integra uh an advantage of that

is that it's pretty comfortable to wear

like you don't have a battery hanging

off the side of your head and you don't

have a wire running down your body going

to a battery in your pocket um that's

cool although the downside is that if

you run out of battery and you need to

change packs really suddenly you can't

just unplug a battery and plug a new one

in the goggles can be powered and

charged via a USB power bank in the

field so if you need auxiliary power

that's how you're going to do it there's

another major difference that people

notice and I was funny to me watching

people try to interpret the leaks

because they saw this head forehead

brace whatever and they thought that it

meant that the goggles would flip up

while you were using them sadly that is

not true if I put the goggles on my face

like so you can see that they

only come out that far there's just not

a lot of play in there and what this is

intended to do is it lets you put them

exactly right against the front of your

face based on like where your forehead

is and how far out your nose sticks and

so on and I've got to say I wanted to

hate this at first but it kind of works

and it kind of works better than many

fpv goggles God forbid I'm not

suggesting that fpv goggles pick this up

uh but a lot of times the problem with

fpv goggles and the DJI goggles in the

past has been that they just don't fit

everybody's face perfectly and people

often try and solve this by putting

different goggle foam thicker foam

thinner foam trying to get it to fit

their face and avoid pressure points and

what DJI have done is they have focused

on the one part of everyone's face that

is more or less consistent the forehead

like pretty much everybody's got a

forehead and it's pretty much big and

flat and they put the majority of the

pressure and the weight of the goggles

there on the forehead and then let you

just adjust the exact placement of the

goggles up against your face to try to

get rid of light leak without actually

pushing any pressure like on your nose

or on your eye sockets or anything like

that it kind of

works I hate it but it kind of works

another really cool change that DJI has

made is that the propellers are now

mounted using standard t-mount style

well standard for fpv enthusiasts stand

standard t-mount style mounting so

you've got these two M2 screws that go

through the top and that means that if

you want to put aftermarket propellers

on here you should be able to without

any wacky adapters or any custom

Machining that's kind of cool although

there are people who will miss the sort

of quick quick Mount style of props that

DJI usually does here's the USB port on

the Avada and it's going to be way more

useful than it was on previous versions

of the Drone you see a lot of people

didn't use the internal storage on the

Drone for two reasons number one it

wasn't very big it filled up quickly and

number two it wasn't very fast to get

the data off of it the Drone now has 46

gig of internal memory that's enough to

record for I'm not going to pull out my

calculator it'll record for a long

freaking time if you need more storage

you can put an SD card in and you can

have all you know whatever gigabytes and

gigabytes of storage for your 4K

recordings yay you cinematographer let's

fire it up and take a look inside the

goggles at the new menu system we'll

cover some of the new features and we'll

cover how the hand controller can be

used in augmented reality mode here's

the DJI fly app running on my phone and

it's connected to the goggles via a USB

connection and if I just hit gly then I

can see on my phone screen exactly what

I would be seeing inside the goggles if

I then pick up this hand controller you

can see that by moving the hand

controller I'm moving this augmented

reality cursor inside the goggles now as

I move it around the screen you can see

little menus wanting to pop up but

unfortunately they will not pop up via

the hand controller unless I'm actually

wearing the goggles so right now looking

at the phone screen I can go to this

joystick here on the goggles and I can

access the menus but I can't do the cool

augmented reality stuff which I totally

want to do so I'm going to put the

goggles on right now uh and as I put the

goggles

on uh I will just adjust the Focus

adjustment the goggles have Focus

adjustment from + two to min-6 those of

you with perfect vision good for you uh

personally my vision is actually

slightly worse than minus 6 it's like

625 to 675 and the DJI goggles 2 had

adjustable Focus up to minus 8 I don't

need corrective lenses with the goggles

2 but I kind of can't quite get these

fully in Focus like it's usable but it's

not as good as it could be

and it in case you're wondering well do

they any of the aftermarket lenses for

the goggles 2 work on these it doesn't

look like they fit no so I just have

slightly worse Focus than I should but I

can pretty easily move this on my

forehead to get it lined up as perfectly

as I can hold on a second let me just uh

turn this knob here to raise there we go

raised the kimbal hey how you doing so

here inside the goggles I can bring up

up the main goggle menu and I just want

to show you some highlights here for

some things that I think you're going to

want to see uh if we go into status then

we can see remote ID functionality

normal yes the Drone does broadcast

remote ID as is required by law for all

drones sold in the United States past

whatever the cuto off date was yes the

goggles do have GPS inside and detect

your GPS location and the Drone can

broadcast the pilot your location here

in the transmission settings we can see

something very interesting I have set

the channel mode to manual and you can

see that the frequency can be either 2.4

or 5.8 GHz this is really cool because

although the Ava 1 did do both 2.4 and 5

GHz it only used 2.4 GHz for the control

link it didn't do video over 5

GHz I'm going I'm going to take these

off after all it's kind of annoying

having the cable dangling there you've

seen the AR joystick right we'll see

that more again when we take it out to

fly the advantage of 2. 4 GHz is that

being lower frequency you get more range

and penetration out of it the

disadvantage of 2.4 GHz is that it's a

very small frequency band you can

basically only get one channel in it but

if you're flying by yourself you can now

use 2.4 GHz for video and get even

better range and penetration and if

you're flying with a bunch of other

pilots who aren't flying DJI up in the 5

GHz band you can fly down in 2.4 GHz and

not stomp on them now I haven't tested

that myself I'm going to leave that to

somebody like mad Tech who does a lot of

really good testing of that kind of

spectrum analysis stuff but um

theoretically at least you can put this

device down in 2.4 GHz and not blast

people who are operating in 5 GHz get

better range and penetration it's just a

win-win win the other thing you're going

to notice is right here the bandwidth is

set to 60 MHz and that's a big deal

because the more megahertz you have the

better your image is going to look

previous DJI systems used either 40 MHz

which is 50 megabits per second 20 MHz

which is 25 megabits per second or 10

MHz which is 12.5 megabits per second

the 60 MHz is even more megabits per

second I believe DJI quotes it at 60

megabits per second and that should give

us even better image quality uh the

downside it's going to take up more

space in the Spectrum and you're going

to have fewer channels available if we

go uh here in 2.4 GHz we can see we only

have one channel to choose from uh if we

go up to 5 gigahertz we can see that we

still only have one channel to choose

from but if we change oh it hasn't been

unlocked has it we're going to do the

ham unlock good news the exact same ham

unlock procedure for the goggles 2 and

the Integra has just worked on the

goggles 3 and that means that now if I

go into transmission I have access to

all the channels uh and you can see here

that in 60 mahz mode we still have three

channels available able in 5.8 GHz uh

that's the same as 40 MHz mode but

presumably we're taking up more of the

frequencies and interfering more with

other pilots who might be in the area uh

if we go down to 2.4 gig what do we got

just one channel available that's what I

thought cuz it's a much narrower

frequency uh band you know what I think

we've been looking at the menus long

enough and it's time we actually took

this outside and flew it before we do

that I want to show you up close how the

hand controller works because it's a

little bit non-intuitive and to be

honest it turned out to be way cooler

than I actually thought it was going to

be I know there's people out there who

flown the hand controller with the fpv

Drone and the AATA 1 and who are kind of

down on it and I got to say it probably

wouldn't be my first choice as an

experienced RC pilot but it does make

certain kinds of moves a lot easier for

someone to do especially someone who

maybe isn't used to Flying an RC drone

and the first thing I want to show you

is that as I raise and lower my hand the

gimbal tracks that motion so we have the

ability to look up and down with a

single axis gimbal without the Drone

itself having to pitch up and down if I

click this joystick to bring up these

options I can also bring up head

tracking and if head tracking is on then

as I move now not only is the gimbal

moving up and down but literally the

Drone is tracking my head as I move it

you can hear the motor's freaking out if

I just half press the trigger here then

the motion control will activate and I

can turn the Drone left and right by

tilting my hand left and right and this

hat right here makes the Drone go up and

down it also as you can see activates

the Turning action uh and if I push it

left and right the Drone will slide to

the left and right as as far as front

and back goes the way it works is as

soon as I half press the joystick that

little circular reticle appears on

screen and in addition to moving the

Drone and gimbal to look at it the Drone

will also steer towards it so if I just

begin to pull the trigger the Drone will

start moving forward and I can fly

it

wherever I want to

go and what I find still so fascinating

about this hand

controller is like how it sort of tricks

you into feeling like the Drone is

moving in ways it's

not like it's banking kind of like a

fighter plane but then when we go into a

sharp descent it's not pitching forward

like an fpv drone it's using the gimbal

to look up and

down so it has this control over it

speed that you just don't get oh just

don't get with an fpv drone you can't

get a shot like this with an fpv drone

where you're looking down but also kind

of not just

diving it's really pretty easy to fly

and pretty

cool and it's really hard to get shots

like this where you look up up and go up

and then you swoop down with a hand

controller it would be really hard to

move the gimbal that smoothly you could

use the head tracker I

guess it's pretty cool it's pretty

cool now we've let off let off the stick

and boom just stops you're going to

crash just let off the stick it stops so

uh what about if we press the flight

mode button and we switch to sport mode

okay here we go sport mode in 3 2 1

go so it's going a little faster now oh

it's going way faster you really have to

practice paying attention to how your

hand is tilted it's easy at first to

kind of lose track of where you're

aiming and have the Drone climb or

descend when you didn't intend it to

but you can see that with a little

practice we can really just oh God oh

God oh God oh

Point not

made I was GNA say you really could just

zip it around I crashed it oh well now

if you do crash and your quad cters

upside down then you won't be able to

take off again but DJI have a fix for

that as well it's called Turtle mode and

it's something that fpv drones have had

for a long time uh in order to activate

Turtle mode you don't use the controller

instead you just well it's DJI you just

let the Drone do it on its own here in

the menu we're going to go to settings

we're going to go to control and we're

going to go down to Turtle mode and if I

just click on the button

there well then Mr Smarty Pants what if

an obstacle is blocking one of the

props just

kidding I have to be more

aggressive it did it it says propulsion

system eror but it correctly identified

that one of the motors was jammed and it

flipped the other direction and the the

stick came out now let's try out the

traditional hand controller

and there we go and uh before I do that

I'm just going to use this knob right

here to set a certain uptilt angle like

15° or something and I'm basically going

to leave that locked in because it's not

easy to change that while you're flying

yes you can adjust the knob it's not

going to be very smooth um you've also

got this three position that takes you

from all all the way down to zero to all

the way up which okay but like well

let's see what it looks like here we

have 15

18° and uh of course we're immediately

going to go to sport

mode and away we

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go and like it's

fine uh but it just lacks a lot of that

smoothness that we had especially when

climbing or descending

with the motion controller like if I

come around

here and try to climb it's not going to

look up and if I come over the trees

here it's not looking down like how am I

going to see what I'm descending into I

can't the motion controller just handles

that way more smoothly it would be

really good if we could activate head

tracking this has head tracking but it

only works with the hand motion

controller it would be really great if

we could activate head tracking so that

while flying with the control sticks I

could also manipulate the gimbal with my

head but it just can't do that um while

I'm flying one thing uh you may not know

is that right now this bank that you're

seeing where I'm banking into the turn

the drone's doing that for me

automatically like I'm just steering

with the left stick and it's Banking and

handling the turn automatically if I

really want to rip it around I'm going

to put it in manual mode there we go we

are in full Acro manual ual mode just

like an fpv drone and to be honest with

you like obviously this isn't the best

flying fpv drone I've ever flown but it

really impresses me like it's not a ton

of like prop wash or bounce

back it's got a reasonable amount of

power do you see how coming down out of

there it didn't kind of go wub wub wub

wub wub or lose control pretty freaking

smooth to be honest with you

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pretty freaking

smooth that's the default rates we can

crank those rates up if we want to that

was a full stick

deflection

but it's a fpv drone let's see if we can

find the Limits Full Throttle there we

go so like if I really push it it does

get out of sorts but we can really whip

this thing around surprising

amount

and there we go I found found the limit

there it jerked just a little bit it's

surprisingly

capable and as long as you stay sort of

within its

limits it flies surprisingly well

like I think that there's quote unquote

fpv cops out there that don't Acro this

well or maybe Acro about this well for

those who can't do Acro tricks in manual

mode DJI has what's called easy Acro now

this only works when using the hand

controller you go into the goggle menu

and activate easy Acro and a new menu

appears at the side of the screen and

from here you can choose what trick will

be done when you press the Hat the

little hat joystick on the motion

controller one way or the other the

default is the normal slide Behavior

where it moves left right up down but

you can choose 180 drift or flip now

it's one thing to do these tricks in a

big open field high up in the sky but I

decided to actually try to integrate

them into some sort of freest stylish

lines and you can see the result here

two of the things that held me back from

that were number one you can't do the

easy Acro modes when you're too close to

the ground you need to be at least like

I think it's like 2 MERS uh but if

you're too close to the ground you can't

do it which is interesting because the

quad really doesn't lose any altitude

like it's doing these tricks extremely

precisely the other limitation was that

you can't do them when you're in sport

mode you can only do them in normal mode

which is why I was going not as fast as

I might I feel like I would be doing a

disservice to the feature if I didn't

give you guys a closer look at how the

head tracking works okay do you see the

circle on screen that is where the hand

controller is aiming and you see the

hand controller is not controlling the

up down motion of the gimbal anymore

instead now my head

is do you see the Crosshair on screen

that is where my head is aiming and

watch what that lets you do so as long

as the circle is on top of the Crosshair

my head is centered up and the Drone

flies more or less like it did when I

had TR tracking disabled

but I can start looking into

turns and then bring my head back to

Center

again I

can come around here look into the turn

it's just so intuitive I look up and I

look over and now I'm kind of doing an

orbit

move and we'll go

down

it

really takes a lot of getting used to

I'm still sort of figuring it out myself

but

like you can

do really complex moves that you

couldn't do with the hand controller not

very easily see like I could do an orbit

like this with the hand controller but I

couldn't easily look up like this in the

middle of the

orbit and then do that and really

manipul at the

gimbal it really is like walking and

chewing gum at the same time like I have

to constantly be thinking oh hang on I'm

getting away from me CU I'm trying to

talk in ch gum too it it I I have to

constantly think about like where my

head is and where my hand is but I can

I've already like five times better at

it than I was see there we look out of

the turn as we come out and we look down

I'm already getting better at it and I

can just tell

that with practice you would be able to

pull come on baby yes right through the

Gap you would be able to pull some

really sick

moves with a really and look out of the

turn there we go and now we're flying

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straight you'll be able to pull some

really sick moves it just oh oh it got

away from me again it's really tricky

but come on don't crash very cool at the

same time oh God oh God look up look up

where is it okay Center it up there we

go

H

honestly of the three different ways to

fly this obviously full manual is my

favorite um I almost think for just fun

cruising around the motion controller is

more fun for me than the sport mode cuz

I just I'm so used to being able to look

down and look up and the motion

controller approximates that more than

in sport mode where you just kind of

like um if I have to do precise flying

it would probably be in sport mode the