Hi fellow droners,
So I have been experimenting with the Litchi VR mode for about a month now. First impressions that come to mind: Wow! Then, gawd this takes forever to get running, **** it froze again!!, WHERE am I (as in which part of the city is this?), I’m never doing immersive again…oh dear my I cracked my iPhone 6 plus.
So lets start the exciting adventure from the start:
Things you need:
1. Your drone and the controller. I used the most aged of my P4s and stock remote. The last thing you would want is a direction specific antenna mod (wind surfers, drone world etc.)
2. Ditch your iPADs my friends. You need a phone. The largest VR googles can take an IP6 +
And it should have more than adequate processing power. IP6+ was what I used.
3. Litchi app
4. VR goggles. Now there is a list on the litchi website, I used the Zeiss VR One plus Zeiss VR ONE Plus.
To go over the steps briefly: do all the preflight checks using the DJI GO app, close it. Open Litchi FPV. Get the drone in the air at a safe altitude (so the drone does not go after you or anyone while you are fidgeting around with the app). Take the phone out of the controller, switch to VR mode.
Now, you need to be very familiar with the settings as it uses the accelerometer, gyro and the compass on the phone, so the drone will move depending on your settings. Put the phone in the goggles making sure that it doesn’t get disconnected from the remote (only the Mavic connects to DJI Goggles wirelessly). Wear your goggles, make sure the view is properly aligned and the (phew!!) you are set to go.
Now the FPV mode with head tracking is pretty cool, my only gripe being the feed starts to lag and break up by about 2000 ft. I’m also around 600-700ft at that time. Here is where the directionless remote and the processing power of the phone also come into play.
The fun starts in the one of the modes, esp the immersive one. Man, you are so lost up there (I told you not to do this). Then the VR feed crashes, you have lost contact with the drone on your remote, quickly, take the head set off, pull the phone out, try to exit out of VR but Litchi is frozen dammit, ok, force exit the app, start DJI GO, try to estimate which direction the drone is, press the RTH and all right, I get some signal. Ok I see it. Exit RTH if you had used that, and then fly around casually if you still have battery while the summer sun dries your pants.
So VR has some way to go, but it is the future of drone flying. At least your mini me piloting the craft from the inside is worth it…
So I have been experimenting with the Litchi VR mode for about a month now. First impressions that come to mind: Wow! Then, gawd this takes forever to get running, **** it froze again!!, WHERE am I (as in which part of the city is this?), I’m never doing immersive again…oh dear my I cracked my iPhone 6 plus.
So lets start the exciting adventure from the start:
Things you need:
1. Your drone and the controller. I used the most aged of my P4s and stock remote. The last thing you would want is a direction specific antenna mod (wind surfers, drone world etc.)
2. Ditch your iPADs my friends. You need a phone. The largest VR googles can take an IP6 +
And it should have more than adequate processing power. IP6+ was what I used.
3. Litchi app
4. VR goggles. Now there is a list on the litchi website, I used the Zeiss VR One plus Zeiss VR ONE Plus.
To go over the steps briefly: do all the preflight checks using the DJI GO app, close it. Open Litchi FPV. Get the drone in the air at a safe altitude (so the drone does not go after you or anyone while you are fidgeting around with the app). Take the phone out of the controller, switch to VR mode.
Now, you need to be very familiar with the settings as it uses the accelerometer, gyro and the compass on the phone, so the drone will move depending on your settings. Put the phone in the goggles making sure that it doesn’t get disconnected from the remote (only the Mavic connects to DJI Goggles wirelessly). Wear your goggles, make sure the view is properly aligned and the (phew!!) you are set to go.
Now the FPV mode with head tracking is pretty cool, my only gripe being the feed starts to lag and break up by about 2000 ft. I’m also around 600-700ft at that time. Here is where the directionless remote and the processing power of the phone also come into play.
The fun starts in the one of the modes, esp the immersive one. Man, you are so lost up there (I told you not to do this). Then the VR feed crashes, you have lost contact with the drone on your remote, quickly, take the head set off, pull the phone out, try to exit out of VR but Litchi is frozen dammit, ok, force exit the app, start DJI GO, try to estimate which direction the drone is, press the RTH and all right, I get some signal. Ok I see it. Exit RTH if you had used that, and then fly around casually if you still have battery while the summer sun dries your pants.
So VR has some way to go, but it is the future of drone flying. At least your mini me piloting the craft from the inside is worth it…