hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome
to drone the sky here we are in baladura
western australia and as you can tell by
the title
i'm going to be showing you today how
you can control your dji
mavic mini using the lychee beta
application
with fpv mode slash vr headset mode
i'm going to show you how you can
control your gimbal with your head as
you can see here up and down
or how you can actually control your
drone altogether
going left right up down with the camera
using just
a cheap headset how much did i spend all
up well for this little setup
10 plus 4.95 so 14.95 all up so let's
get on with it and i'll show you how to
do it
here we go
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okay so what do we need to make this
happen what parts do we need what
equipment do we need to fly with a vr
headset so first of all
obviously we need our mavic mini that's
fine here's our hand controller here
okay but here's the two important parts
that we're going to need sorry three
important parts actually
first of all a cheap vr headset so in
this case whatever this model brand is
i don't know but this cost me ten
dollars from facebook marketplace
so you don't need to spend that big to
get the effect that we're after so if i
open this up
i'll pull it out of the box this is all
it is so this is the
headset here if you turn around this is
where obviously you look through the
lenses and they're fully adjustable so
manual adjustment left right
for obviously different eyesight
different sort of focus point
now you'll notice here this side panel
this comes out
okay so what happens is you get your
phone now i'm filming with my phone at
the moment so i can't put my phone in
but picture your phone going along this
way this is adjustable
with the screen facing towards the
eyepieces okay
so once your phone's in there you simply
slip it in and you're going to see your
phone screen
in here all right so that goes in there
as you can see here this is where the
cords run out now this
modification here was done by me so i
could put the microphone microphone
in so i could talk to you obviously
whilst flying so the next part you're
going to need is
this one here which is very important
495 at jcar australia
that's a usb 2.0 to a micro
usb as you can see there hopefully that
focuses okay
so again it's called an otg converter
you can get these anywhere in the world
anywhere online but as long as it's usb
2
to micro usb because what a lot of
people don't understand is
the port on the side of your remote here
even though it's square that's actually
a micro usb port
how do i know this because you charge
your controller with the micro usb even
though that's a square input
all right so as you can see here's our
otg converter
turn it around straight in there you go
it's in there right now so otg by the
way stands for on the go it's just a
connector type so
that goes in there next part you're
going to need is the cable
that plugs into your phone so most
phones will have this cable here where
one end usb 2.0 goes into the charger
point which goes into your wall or your
computer
and this one here so in my case it's a
usb
c for my phone but other people have a
micro usb
or a thing i think it's called lightning
for the apples i don't know
but anyway that will go into your phone
but what you do is you grab your charger
cable which comes with your phone
and you plug it straight into this usb
2.0 port here on the otg cable so as you
can see
it's connected like that see that so
then what you do
remember our phone's in here you simply
pull it out
put it into your phone and close it and
there you go
your phone will sit in there i'll put a
picture up anyway so that's just set up
whoops i just dropped it that just set
up there and i dropped it again
that's just set up there all right so
controller
cable running through otg to your
headset on your face and controlling
so obviously when it's in your hands the
phone's no longer going to be mounted
under your controller here your phone's
going to be in the headset because
you're going to be controlling the
drone's gimbal and the drone itself
with your head if that makes sense all
right but like i said
i'll put a picture up now regarding
using the headset so bear in mind
the feed imagery or the feed video to
your phone when you're flying a mavic
mini anyway is only 720p so this headset
is not going to make it
a vastly better it's just going to
enlarge it into your eyesight
and as you saw with the previous video
or actually you will see when we go
flying
it splits into two parts two squares of
the same screen which this headset
will then focus into one point as if
you're looking straight through the
camera
all right so don't expect a vastly
difference quality
of the transmission image it's still
going to be 720p coming into your eyes
now you may ask why would i do this why
why put this on my head why buy a 10
mask and get an otg cable for 4.95 well
that's 14.95
versus a dedicated fpv or vr mask
which sets you back four five or six
hundred dollars
okay so the dji mask one of the top ones
is eight hundred dollars
and here's the funny thing there is no a
virtual reality dedicated drone
uh headsets that work with the mavic
mini in no matter what app you use
and funnily enough i think i read i've
got a mavic air ii
the dji mask doesn't actually work with
a mavic air 2 either and that's one of
the newest drains so i don't know if
that's changed but
that's from what i've read so that seems
a bit strange but
this will give you the effect that
you're after all right
now you'll find as well functionality
wise when we get flying
you'll see that you actually have to
change the settings before you actually
put your phone back in your headset okay
so all the settings needs to be done on
the phone itself
before you get flying which can be a bit
tedious because you have to sort of
pull your phone out and change the
settings as you'll see when we go flying
but hey that's part of it anyway some
controllers actually have extra buttons
for your information on the controller
this one doesn't which you can program
so you can change settings on the fly so
the mavic mini doesn't have that
you have to do it manually all right so
that's enough talking
as we said controller otg cable
connected to your
standard phone charger or tablet charger
if you want to fly
uh with the tablet cable but obviously
if you want to use a mask you have to
have a phone in there
all right let's get flying and i'll show
you what it's all about
okay so here we are we're on the ground
and we're in normal mode so what we're
going to do first is we're going to go
into
fpv or vr goggle mode so at the top
right hand side of your screen you'll
see a pair of goggles just under the
settings cog let's click on that
okay so we've now engaged vr mode so
obviously when you've got your goggles
on you won't see two individual uh
well views like this it actually gets
combined by the goggles that's what the
design does okay so you'll see one image
as if you're looking through the camera
so at the bottom here we're going to go
to these three little cogs
and this is our vr settings okay so the
first setting we've got is
display osd so that's on screen display
and what that is if i turn that off and
on see the numbers disappearing at the
bottom
your answer on screen display shows you
all your
sort of readouts such as altitude and
distance and so forth
as we go down so you'll notice with the
goggles you can actually adjust the eye
sight and eye line and distance and that
manually through the goggles itself but
sometimes
it doesn't assist enough to get those
on-screen display numbers
in your line of sight so what you can do
is you can go osd or depth
offset so if i click that increasing see
how the numbers are coming inwards
and if i drop it down they go outwards
so you can actually
not only manually adjust but adjust
through the application so you get those
numbers directly in your line of sight
so you can see
what you're doing when you're flying so
gimbal head tracking
we'll turn that on in a second it's off
at the moment so my gimbal doesn't go up
and down
while i'm using the phone in my hand but
obviously when that's on
the control of either the aircraft or
the gimbal itself is uh activated by
using the motion sensors
in your phone okay so we'll leave that
off a sec gimbal speed so i'm on two at
the moment that's the speed i like
what you've got you've got speed one
three to four so when you've got uh
gimbal speed one on
the gimbal moves up and down at a slower
rate
okay now number two for me is a more
natural speed for my head movement so
the way i move my head
up and down or turn the aircraft left or
right that's the sort of speed i want
when you're on four the gimbal sort of
shoots up and down real quick so if you
move your head that quickly
fair enough but i don't it's sort of
disorientating when you're
going at such a speed when your head's
not moving that quickly so i'm going to
leave it on too
now aircraft tracking so when gimbal
head tracking is turned on and activated
you've got these options here okay so
what
none does none just allows you to fly
the aircraft with your joysticks like
normal
but just control the up and down a pitch
of the gimbal
by tilting your head forwards or
backwards
with the goggles on and i'll show you
that in a second anyway now immersive
what that is
when you activate vr mode and put it in
immersive and take
off what happens is not only can you
move the gimbal up and down with your
head by tilting your head forwards and
backwards but when you turn your head
left or right the aircraft will actually
rotate
left or right not move sideways but
rotate on a horizontal
in conjunction to your takeoff point so
let's say
i take off in the direction of north in
immersive mode
whenever i tilt my head it's going to
tilt left or right
in conjunction to the north point if
that
makes sense okay we come down the
joystick
same concept you move your head up and
down it pitches the gimbal
you move your head left to right it
rotates the aircraft left to right but
this is more of a free mode what this
means is
it's not locked into its takeoff point
uh
when you put it in vr mode what it
actually does is as you fly along
doesn't matter which way you're facing
where you're looking you tilt your head
left uh sorry if you turn your head left
or right the aircraft's gonna turn left
or right all right
i don't use joystick mode it's a bit of
a hard one to get your head around if
pardon the pun but it seems that
immersive mode's probably the better one
but anyway it's something for you to try
out so what we're going to start off in
just a demonstration is we're going to
go none and now i'm going to
engage gimbal head tracking so what
you'll see straight away is the gimbal
will probably move either up or down
because i've got the phone in my hand
all right so let's just turn that on
okay so i'm going to bring my phone up
here now i'm going to face forward so
let's get
the drone here i'm gonna face my phone
let's go under the shadows here
if i can line it up actually i'll put my
phone out in the sun so we can see okay
so what i'm gonna do my phone here i'm
gonna tilt my phone
forwards and watch the gimbal go up so
let's let's bring the
drone there and tilt it forward
sorry gimbal goes down i get a bit
confused but if i tilt my phone
backwards
the gimbal goes up as you can see when
you tilt your head forwards or backwards
with a vr mask on
it's going to make your gimbal go up or
down okay
and as i said because we're not in the
air at the moment i can't show you the
left or right turn
but we will once we fly so i'm just
going to put the drone back here
and i'm going to turn the gimbal head
tracking off for now
so it doesn't move the gimbal okay so
we're locked back in
to nothing so let's just uh get out of
settings here and i'm just going to
explain
the osd at the bottom okay so a
a's altitude right we know this d is
distance from your
location or the controller location s
so s is your speed g g is the gps so how
many satellites are currently locked
in now b that's your battery that's the
battery of the drone in the air
and the 1990 we've got at the moment
going up and going down arrow
that's the incoming and outgoing link
between your controller and the drone
now this is handy
because like i said when you're flying
around or maybe i didn't say it when
you're flying around you sort of don't
know where your position is
unless you can see yourself on the drone
but if you see these numbers start to
drop
that means your drone's gone out of line
of sight of your hand controller
so that's when you go okay maybe i
should turn change distance
go back the other way and see if the
numbers go up if they go up it means
you're flying back into
the direct line of sight of your
controller okay so bear that in mind
you start to drop real significantly you
probably mean you're flying behind
yourself so it gives you a bit of an
indication of where
you are all right and then we go down to
the green paper airplane
that's your drone's uh direction in
comparison to the home point or the
control point
so obviously i'm not up in the air at
the moment so it's not going to give me
an accurate one but obviously if it's
pointing away
it means it's pointing away from the
control simple all right so let's get in
the air we'll test these modes out and
give you a general idea
okay so here we are we've launched the
drone in the sky so currently i'm in
head tracking mode versus a none as
opposed to immersive and joystick
okay so all i'm going to be doing at the
moment is controlling the gimbal with my
head
so we'll come in for a flight for your
information as well
i don't have already mentioned you have
to change the flight mode
type before you take off so in this case
i'm in cinematic mode so we don't get a
jerky sort of look on camera
i was in sports mode before just in case
i needed a bit of extra take off
if it came a bit too close to hitting a
tree or something because i couldn't see
so here i am with my goggles on so as
you can see
i'm going to fly up to myself and i'm
going to look down and give you an idea
of what it looks like when i move my
head so i'm just going to bring myself
around here
okay here i am so if i look down now
gimbal drops if i look up gimbal goes up
so that's that simple
that's how that mode works there and as
i said as well
the green paper airplane is facing in
the direction of my controller so i'm
just going to move across if i know
where i am here
there we go so i'm in direct line with
the home point
and the drone okay so i've got to look
down so i can actually talk to you
so there you go so what we're going to
do now i'm just going to go a bit higher
here i'm going to back it up
and we're going to change to immersive
mode so as i said before
immersive mode means it works in
conjunction with your home point so
where i'm standing at the moment just
here
and also it allows you to rotate your
aircraft
left or right and the gimbal up
and down so you're still going to need
to control your forward and backward
movement
but this will work uh for the control
left or right so you're probably going
to find i might get into a bit of a spin
here while i change the settings because
i'm actually going to let it hover
and change the settings whilst it's in
the air so if the gimbal drops if it
starts to spin that's why because my
phone's in a weird position all right
here we go
standby so let's go into settings here
go like that go to
settings and we're going to change to
immersive okay
oh okay so there's something there you
actually need to be in p
mode to control it with your head so
we're just going to exit vr quickly
we're going to go into p mode okay now
we're going to go back into vr
all right settings settings if it wants
to
do it for me today there we go and we'll
go into immersive okay
so the reason for that is remember i
said it works off the home point
location
it obviously needs a gps like that to
tell it where the home point is
so we're just going to slide that back
in once i turn these settings off
put it back on my head okay so here we
go
so just going to fly back down to me
again
like i said i just got a bit of height
just in case i did something wrong
now as you can see in p mode it's a bit
uh
it's a bit quicker than normal but
that's fine all right so again
gimbal up down but more importantly if i
rotate my body this way
the drain is now turning itself if i
rotate my body
this way the drone's turning myself
now you don't have to rotate your body
you can simply
stand here like this and turn your head
left all right
there you go okay and remember speed
just turn your head slowly
there we go because if you go like that
is all jaggedy so
leave it like that all right so i'm not
going to go in the joystick mode it's
pretty much a similar thing
except it's not based off your home
point and i find with joystick mode
the head movement seems to be even more
sensitive so if i do a slight movement
like that the camera goes look that way
and then you have to try and get back in
it's very disorientating so
that's the uh the two modes there third
mode similar to the second mode okay so
joystick immersive similar so what we're
going to do now i'm just going to put it
back into
none mode because i just want to control
the gimbal i'm going to go for a flight
so
again we might get a bit of a spin up
here so i'm just going to get some
altitude just in case there's any trees
near me
let's go up
and we're going to change the settings
while we're hovering okay so i'm just
going to pull that out
luckily we're not spinning around so i'm
doing something good here
go into settings if it lets me
oh okay doesn't seem to want to go into
settings at the moment i don't know what
i've done
there we go wasn't pressing it hard
enough all right let's go to none
get rid of the settings
okay back in all right let's go for a
flight okay
so we're just back in the nun mode
controlling the gimbal we're going to go
for a little fly around
and we're going to use our head to
control it so remember
to low sorry rotate left or right we're
using joysticks hence why it was a bit
of a
jagged move then off i go
so i'm listening for my aircraft as well
because uh i can't actually see it as
you'd expect
right but my feed is still 90 both ways
so i'm obviously
going all right so as we come over here
we're just going to fly over these trees
here we go so i'm just going to park it
here slowly
now i'm going to use my head to look
down at the tree
and that's pretty crazy because bearing
in mind it feels like you're actually
hanging off the edge of a building here
and looking down
that's pretty cool pretty cool and we're
going to look that way
wow amazing i'm just going to rotate the
aircraft around here
and we're going to come back towards me
so i'm over here and as i said remember
look at the green paper
airplane at the bottom it's pointing
towards my direction so if it's pointing
straight down that means it's pointing
at you
bear that in mind if it's pointing
straight up it's pointing away from you
okay so it's pointing at me straight now
i'm going to go this way we'll come in
nice and low in a second bear in mind
i've had some trees below me a second
ago so we don't want to crash
so as we slowly come in we'll go to
lower altitudes and get a nice view of
ourself here
there we go we'll hover the ground we're
at one point well
maybe a bit too low there i am there
coming in
looking up and we'll go over ourself and
look down
there you go that's it all right so
that's pretty much all of that explained
use your head look around or control
your aircraft with your head if that's
what you want to do
so we're just going to come in the land
now and end it there
okay so there you have it the dji mavic
mini using the
lychee beta application in vr mode so
i'm just going to go into a few points
in conclusion before i do that
the footage you can see in the
background here was taken with a mavic
air
2 and this is me flying over the nikola
estate in western australia in the swan
valley so it's the winery valley of
western australia so
i went to nicola estate and they were
nice enough to let me fly over their
estate
if you ever come visit western australia
from wherever you are in the world
i'd highly recommend nicola estate
they've got a massive winery when i say
massive
look you can drink your wine and walk
kilometers because that's how
huge this place is so come down have a
look anyway that's enough of that
now regarding the vr aspect with this
application
now the headset like i said the it's not
going to make
your images fantastic when you look at
it it's still going to be 720p
coming through to your phone because in
the end you're just looking at a
magnified version
of your phone but it adds a new aspect
to flying
not only can you just simply control the
application and use your head to look up
and down so it makes a lot easier to
locate points on the ground or in the
air
but you can also control the way your
drone actually flies
with your head so this might be good for
some people
some people might not like it look it
can be disorientating if you don't know
what position you're in when you're
flying so
i advise caution obviously if you get
dizzy easy maybe not use this maybe just
fly
like normal but if you want a different
perspective with flying
throw this on buy yourself a cheap mask
don't be afraid to modify it like i said
i drilled a hole in the side of mine to
put a microphone cord in
it's only cheap modify it any way you
like if you can't get your phone to fit
properly
do things to it in the end it's it's not
worth much anyway so just
do what you can so you can get flying
and look through those goggles
and look around okay i enjoyed it i
thought it was quite a good feature and
as you can see
it actually works pretty well
considering and it didn't cost me
six or eight hundred dollars to get that
effect so i hope you enjoyed today's
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thanks very much for watching
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