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The inclusion of blade rings is also a significant advantage if the drone ever hits living things, even though the 410g Avata is much lighter than the 795g DJI FPV. The 155° FOV is only available when the aspect ratio is 4:3, and the video recording specification is 2.7K@50/60fps or 1080p@50fps/60fps; the aspect ratio is 16:9, and the video recording specification is 4K@50/60fps, 2.7K@50/60fps, or 1080p@50/60fps.
With a double tap on the motion controller’s red button, the Avata‘s motors fire up. The drone is incredibly easy to use, and the Motion Controller makes it even easier with the Goggles. If you have flown drones before and want to try the experience of flying an FPV one, you have to try the Avata, you won’t regret it. The ridiculously intuitive motion controller smooths out shaky hands and lets you stop on a dime in a split second. I had similar safety concerns around the DJI FPV Combo, though it at least includes forward-facing obstacle sensors that allow for safer use around people. The Avata has downward-facing ToF IR sensors to make high-speed, ground-hugging flights possible, but don’t offer protection in other directions. The sensors also improve stability when flying indoors without a GPS assist—the drone is smart enough to slow down when it's flying in tight confines, a plus if you're trying to recreate the Tesla Gigafactory Cinewhoop tour video for fun or profit, or if you simply want to see if you can fly through your house without damaging anything. Flying in first-person is nothing like flying a standard drone. The controls are much smoother and more responsive in the real world. You can easily get around buildings and obstacles on a typical drone, but in first-person view, it becomes much easier to crash it, and you have to get used to distances and speed. The Avata comes with goggles that look like virtual-reality glasses because, as the FPV name suggests, you can fly your drone with these on to have a first-person view while using your drone.Let’s face it, you’ll want to get the thrill of flying a first-person view drone at low altitudes even though it is not advised to do so. However, you must always use common sense and look for places free of obstacles and people. Needless to say, you don’t want to bring the Avata to a crowded park as it could severely damage a human if you crash into them. Where the DJI FPV sensor had only 12MP resolution, the new sensor has 48MP. However, we suspect it has a similar number multiplied by the clever use of oversampling filters rather than having 48MP sensor elements. This enhancement makes for crisper video and much cleaner still images. You can also use the Goggle to change settings and access menus. A touch-sensitive panel, located just ahead of your right temple, supports swipe and tap gestures for navigation. In the menus, you can adjust video settings, set a custom geofence, and access the useful post-crash Turle Mode option, which flips the drone right side up after a crash landing. The wide-angle lens is free of distortion and generally shows an unobstructed view of the world. However, the airframe can pop into view when you tilt downward at a steep angle or brake. The POV footage itself is quite smooth—a gimbal stabilizes the camera pitch, while digital stabilization provides a real assist. If you're flying high and searching for wide landscapes, you can get a steady look when hovering or flying straight ahead, but the Avata's camera doesn't keep things level and smooth when you start to turn it. For that look, you need to opt for a cinema drone with a three-axis gimbal. The Avata is better for conveying a sense of motion and for FPV effects shots. The USB-C port and microSD slot are in a really awkward spot
Lastly, the Avata has a reasonable amount of internal storage, about 20GB, which is enough to hold around 20 minutes of 4K60FPS footage. The quadcopter supports a MicroSD slot, but finally, DJI made a drone with more internal storage than just 8GB. Design and Controller If we compare these numbers to the DJI Mavic 3, the Avata is a little faster, but not by a dramatic amount. The takeaway from these numbers is that the Avata is built more for fun and cinematography, rather than chasing racing cars or birds of prey.Beneath the Avata are two downward-looking sensors for accurately calculating the distance from the ground using binocular vision to build a ToF (time of flight) map of the ground beneath the drone. The through-the-camera view shows a sharp, smooth perspective, with low enough lag to make high-speed flight possible. DJI doesn't specify a latency in milliseconds, but the 1080p/100fps feed feels real-time to me. For the most part, the video feed is clear and sharp, but I did note some garbling and resolution loss when the transmission signal weakened. If you opt for the kit with the older FPV Goggles V2, you're limited to 810p resolution.
However, the most exciting addition to the FPV drone is the DJI Goggles, and we’ll go over them in the next dedicated section. DJI Goggles 2 The DJI Avata is a better considered and more sedate entry to the world of FPV flying than its predecessor, but it falls into a space between camera drones and FPV hardware that might not satisfy either objective as effectively as more dedicated solutions.Although off-the-shelf cinema drones have been a reality in the consumer market for a half-dozen years, high-speed racing drones of the Cinewhoop style that can navigate through really tight spaces have largely been the domain of hobbyists, DIYers, and dedicated enthusiasts. With the Avata, DJI is doing what it does best—bringing an edge-case product into the mainstream. DJI Goggles Integra feature an integrated design, adopt two 1080p Micro-OLED screens with up to 100Hz
Drones are more than just toys, and in just a few years, they will likely make your life better and more comfortable. For testing, I took the drone out for a shakedown flight in my yard but didn't get to do too much with it in my small suburban lot. Thankfully, I also have access to a big private farm and woods, with some walking trails through a canopy of trees and plenty of objects to navigate around. This environment let me open up the throttle and experience the thrill of crashing (a couple of times) without the worry of harming another person. If you live in a small lot, a crowded development, or an urban apartment, the Avata has less appeal. But if you've got some acreage or often find yourself in interesting places that also happen to be far away from other people, you can have some fun with the little radio-controlled flyer. The 18-minute battery is exposed during flight, and only takes a few seconds to swap out in the field While we can’t confirm this currently, we’ve been told that the blade guard and main frame of the drone will be purchasable as replacements from DJI, allowing owners to replace them if they have an unfortunate accident. But you must understand that you need to take special care when flying as it is almost as risky to fly the Avata as it is fun to control. On top of that, the price is pretty high for the whole kit, which may be a significant deterrent for many pilots. Enjoy a totally immersive, user-friendly flight experience with stunningly immersive HD resolution and intuitive flight control.The sensor here is a significant upgrade over what came before with a 1/1.7in sensor compared to the 1/2.3in on the DJI FPV. The use of inches is somewhat confusing for sensor sizes, but the Avata camera has almost 64% more surface area to capture light, with a 43mm-squared area compared to 28.46mm-squared. The firm's engineering teams deserve an incredible amount of credit for making a small, high-speed drone that's very easy to unbox and fly. The Avata hovers in place when your hand is off the throttle, moves through the air effortlessly, and is extremely responsive to controls (enough so that 30mph flights through complex environments are possible). Racing pros can swap to a manual controller for 60mph flight too, though I wasn't brave enough to try this mode—I don't have the skills for flying quadcopters without autopilot assists.
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