Kirk Stevens
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Fatshark has dove head first into its FPV systems. DJI is a leading technology, drone manfucturing company now putting out goggles. What does this product review have to suggest on both?
DJI Goggles vs Fatshark HD3. What Gives?
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rosco11
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doesn't matter. Fatshark = slim and cool looking. DJI = bulky and super geek.
Fatshark could suck and still out sell the DJI goggles. They are.....ugly. Have to get past that to start bitching about paying 500 bucks for a dollars worth of molded plastic and 20 bucks worth of off the shelf circuit boards all slapped together in china.
Fatshark could suck and still out sell the DJI goggles. They are.....ugly. Have to get past that to start bitching about paying 500 bucks for a dollars worth of molded plastic and 20 bucks worth of off the shelf circuit boards all slapped together in china.
Kirk Stevens
Active Member
Understood and appreciate the thoughts on that. Personally, I would like to see the quad while I am flying without goggles. Maybe that is just my own insecurites.
rosco11
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Yea, camera ships require a different approach. Not sure why DJI made them unless they are going to get into FPV racing. A friend of mine has a phantom and uses a stand alone display for the camera gimbal and LOS for the quad itself. He would rather have the two functions completely seperate, the quad positioning and camera operation, to keep orientated and on target.
That said, if DJI ever got into FPV racing as something more than an offshoot, they would probably blow the competition away. The phantom 3 my buddy has compared to the racer i fly is like comparing a go cart to a Mercedes. There is no comparison really. Everything on his ship is well thought out, well engineered, and functions flawlessly. My racer? Crashes aside, something is always failing. A hodgepodge of parts from miscellaneous vendors glued and soldered together that were never really designed to go together. It is my one gripe about FPV racing quads. You have to MAKE everything work together or accept a ship with short comings as none of the RTF and BNF have what you want in a complete package.
He ordered a new set of screws, just the screws, and they already had lock tight on them. They give you exactly what you need the way you need it. No one else does.
But those goggles are too big and too bulky. They probably have functions designed for their equipment requiring them to be that way but for FPV racing....smaller is better pretty much as a rule. It would not be hard to take out fatshark. It is an overpriced, under quality product. It's claim to fame is the ability to adapt to equipment changes, like 1.3, 2.4, 5.8 receivers, diversity antennas, head tracker and the eye adjustments on the unit itself. Pretty much has everything. DJI would make a better product. But racers want cool and sexy, not a box car. Smaller. slimmer. Ability to upgrade and adapt. That is the mind set they need.
That said, if DJI ever got into FPV racing as something more than an offshoot, they would probably blow the competition away. The phantom 3 my buddy has compared to the racer i fly is like comparing a go cart to a Mercedes. There is no comparison really. Everything on his ship is well thought out, well engineered, and functions flawlessly. My racer? Crashes aside, something is always failing. A hodgepodge of parts from miscellaneous vendors glued and soldered together that were never really designed to go together. It is my one gripe about FPV racing quads. You have to MAKE everything work together or accept a ship with short comings as none of the RTF and BNF have what you want in a complete package.
He ordered a new set of screws, just the screws, and they already had lock tight on them. They give you exactly what you need the way you need it. No one else does.
But those goggles are too big and too bulky. They probably have functions designed for their equipment requiring them to be that way but for FPV racing....smaller is better pretty much as a rule. It would not be hard to take out fatshark. It is an overpriced, under quality product. It's claim to fame is the ability to adapt to equipment changes, like 1.3, 2.4, 5.8 receivers, diversity antennas, head tracker and the eye adjustments on the unit itself. Pretty much has everything. DJI would make a better product. But racers want cool and sexy, not a box car. Smaller. slimmer. Ability to upgrade and adapt. That is the mind set they need.