DJI O3 Digital FPV System - 6 Months Later Is It The Best ?

DJI O3 Digital FPV System for drones and fixed wing, A look at where it is today 6 months after release.

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[flyinryanfpv]

I smell a DJI update coming soon shortly after this video lol. They may not conversate with you Mate but I know they do listen! Cheers Brother 🍻

[RCRitterFPV]

agree, if I had to start over today... I'd go walksnail.
but I already have a dozen vistas and v2... 3 o3'sd and goggle2...
the O3 and Goggles 2 works really well though... but super uncomfortable and lots of limitations.

[-aniero]

I have o3 and G2, two 5.8ghz antennas (chimera 7prov2) - what if I lose vision, o3 will switch to 2.4ghz and search for a connection? transmission set to auto. Wouldn't it be better to switch to manual in this case?

[ror-ysqp]

so has the binding loss on V2 when switching V2 from O3 and vista been fixed?

[FreshPanda]

I love o3 but I hate my goggles 2 the antifog is absolutely terrible. I tried 3 different foams all bad.

I would love to keep them because of size and bootuptime.

I would love to have the possibility to update my vista and air units and use them in o3 mode on the goggles v2 this would make me very very happy

[DavidTaghehchian]

I don't like calling it backwards compatibility. It's more like "marketing capability". They don't allow O3 units to work with V1 goggles, and they don't allow Air Units and Link/vista work with V1 goggles after updating to work with the Goggles 2. This is just enough for marketing Goggles 2, but not really Backwards compatibility. They clearly chose to drop support for the V1 goggles. It would have been a simple update to V1 goggles to make it all truly backwards compatible.

[joeztan]

DJI FPV Vista then O3 was what brought me back to FPV. I'm a photographer/videographer at heart, so years of analog FPV was not a great experience. I am not a racer or even a free style pilot, I just enjoy flying my iFlight Chimera 7 Pro HD V2 and covering up to 7km range and 30km of distance at 75km/hr and prefer a multi rotor aircraft over fixed wing. For a 7.5" prop drone (with the iFlight silicone camera mount) where the drone never crashes and is designed to broadcast back pristine 1080p video, it does its job very well and has been a very reliable system.

[παναγιωτηςχριστοπουλος-με]

Good job ian. Keep pushing until DJI give their best out of themselves. They can do much better.

[kacimierz]

For someone who doesn't do racing and flies purely for my own enjoyment I can say that:
- hdzero might be a good system, but the availability is unacceptable for me, I know people who I fly with who have waited serveral months for their orders and have not yet recieved them, I also don't feel like I want to spend $600 on goggles and still need to fight for them to be the first to preorder and then pray they actually get shipped. Also hdzero is a small and new company, they have great ideas, but in terms of design and quality control there are still things that need fixing. Dji stuff you can pretty much buy off the shelf any time you need something, also the v1 system has proven to be pretty much bulletproof, hoping the o3 will be just as durable
- walksnail for me feels like a shady company from the start, they have lied and twisted the truth too many times for me. Mocking the community about their new secret product, fatshark lying about cooperating with a different brand, caddx lying about them actually being walksnail, hiding what kind of chip theyre using in their system, literally lying through software tweaks about the actual latency of the system. Too much bad PR in my eyes for me to put any money into it, plus I can't see any real advantages over DJI. Low light camera? For a small group of people maybe.

[babc]

Thanks for highlighting the link loss / recovery issue. It's a surprising and potentially dangerous behaviour, and a regression from the previous DJI Digital FPV system, which typically regains link in a few seconds. What concerns me most is that DJI does not seem to care either about fixing the issue or about its customers who lose or damage equipment as a result – they've known about it for at least 6 months now. Seems negligent.

[ricardoferreira]

If DJI goggles V2 and caddx vista/runcam link still are one of the best combo and there's a strong demand, why end it's life? Doesnt make sense. If consumers buy it, DJI should keep making it.

[JekleFPV]

For most people it would be enough to exchange a GoPro+FPV cam to O3?
I’m sorry, but even for a small fleet, it’s cheaper to just buy a GoPro that you can transfer between the quads instead of putting an O3 in your quads. And that’s not even counting the price of the goggles, nor the price of replacing a camera lens.
Yeah, the image and penetration may be good, but GoPro image is better and penetration has never been a problem on anything for me.
So unless you just fly one or two quads that you’re sure you’re not gonna break the camera, and you really need the additional flight time, and only during the daytime, O3 just doesn’t make any sense to me.

[JustInTime]

Thank you for making this "open letter" video to DJI, the slow reconnection establishment bug is what I want them to fix the most; way better low-light performance would also be great, come on and unleash the large sensor's potential DJI!

But man the O3's visual and signal quality is just on a whole other level compared to analog, being still able to see where you are going when flying completely behind a building just blows my mind every time.

[gogus]

Hi #Mads Tech 🖖 I wanted to ask if it's possible for you to add Polish translation to your videos because you're watched by a lot of people from Poland who don't speak English very well and it would make it easier to understand everything you have to say in your videos, besides I wanted to thank you for everything you always prepare for us and discuss in the movies, I greet you warmly and wish you all the best 🖖

[fantic]

My number one issue with O3……. the binding loss issue with the V2’s STILL isn’t fixed 🤬

[gladperson]

I personally think it's the best cuz it actually feels like I'm actaully flying and that's something I've been waiting for for so long. It's amazing

[Arek_R.]

Hi I'm a noob in drone stuff just starting the hobby, but I know electronics a bit.
I'm pretty sure you can get some awfully cheap ST micro or ESP and have it take either PPM/SBUS/Digital input and then connect to the DJI air unit and tell it to arm&record on your command.
Or you can just have it take no input, and always tell the O3 unit to arm&record on power up..
If there is actually big need for it I can design the PCB very affordably but then I'm not good at firmware so I probably would need help with firmware (or I could maybe ask colleague from work for help with FW).

[Fly_High_FPV]

Hands down 03 + V2 is the best combo out there!

[TechnicallyTom]

Another thought on the O3 is that while the camera is better for recording video to view later, the image is less ideal for flying especially for moving from light to dark areas. I don’t think there is any way to get both out of one camera. That being said, I think an advantage is that you can use a GoPro and get one recording with motion blur and another recording without if you don’t use ND filters on O3.

[Secretone]

What a great "review" Ian, I share a lot of your thoughts on this new system, and it definitely has some annoying shortcomings.
Im currently on V2 goggles and I really don't feel like the G2 or Integra is much of an upgrade for me, it's a different product and it's awesome if thats what people want. But I prefer the analog input and the "box goggles" where i can use my glasses etc.

Combined with the weird flaws such as no auto recording of the old gen air units on new gen goggles, makes me not want to update at all.
So it feels very awkward when DJI is also trying to push us to upgrade to a product I don't want.