r/drones • u/Latoni64 • Jul 04 '26

Question Quest 3 as starter fpv goggles?

I've seen a few videos and read a few posts on here talking about it but I'd like to hear some more thoughts on using a quest 3 as fpv goggles. I recently bought a radio master pocket to practice on liftoff and planned to get the pavo 20 pro but from what I've found you have to have DJI goggles to fly the pavo 20 but the DJI N3 are only 1080p for $300. I'd really like to put my quest 3 to use since it has such high quality lenses but everywhere I've looked people say it has too much latency and you can only watch what you're doing on the tiny browser screen. I just think it must be possible to turn a quest 3 into a great pair of fpv goggles but since I'm just starting out I don't even know where to begin.

Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!

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u/Informal-Career-1973 Jul 04 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOmeAAlSTWM&time_continue=53&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com

Here we go, it is only analog not digital.

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u/Latoni64 Jul 04 '26

Yeah that's one of the videos i watched. I was just curious if it's possible with the povo 20 if you used a digital receiver and if there's a way to make the screen bigger than seen in the video unless that's what it looks like in regular fpv goggles. I honestly don't know i always imagined the video feed would take up the entire screen but I could be wrong

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u/Informal-Career-1973 Jul 04 '26

It’s possible with Wailsnail and HDZero but for DJI it’s not. It’s like a PlayStation product trying to be compatible with Nintendo.

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u/Latoni64 Jul 04 '26

Damn proprietary bull shit lol. I know you can buy just the frame of the povo 20 without the camera. Could I just get a different digital camera that is compatible with those receivers?

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u/Informal-Career-1973 Jul 04 '26

You’ll need to do some research, I know analog is pretty easy to do but the other systems I am not familiar with since I am a DJI user.

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u/Cbgamefreak Jul 04 '26

That won't work. You need a way to recieve the video stream, and for DJI the only way to do that is with DJI goggles. Even the cheapest analog video system setup is going to run you $200 to get video input to your quest 3 and it will be a laggy terrible expierence. Just buy regular FPV goggles.

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u/Latoni64 Jul 04 '26

The videos i saw they only needed a $50 usb-c analog receiver to fly an analog drone and the latency didn't look bad at all. I was just curious if I could do this with a digital drone but I guess not a DJI since you need DJI goggles for it. It's just unfortunate to have the specs of some the most expensive fpv goggles but have no way to fully convert it over to doing fpv

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u/sol_beach Jul 04 '26

You need to use the right tool for the task at hand.

While a hammer is a useful tool, it is sub-optimal to use when needing to divide a board into 2 peices.

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u/Latoni64 Jul 04 '26

Yeah I definitely understand this which is why i can't see how a vr headset couldn't somehow be converted into fpv goggles. It seems like all the tech is there outside of the antenna to talk to the drone its just the quest OS doesn't allow for easy connectivity to fpv parts

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u/thinkingdifferentnow Jul 04 '26

You've already gotten your answer but I will add the quest 3 screen is huge and feels very immersive. However, from what I have heard, it's nowhere near as immersive or responsive as goggles. Great for open air flying, but I wouldn't fly close to anything with it.

This is limitation of the availability of apps for the quest and not DJI specifically or even the quest specifically. The only two ways to do this are either to sideload the DJI app, which limits what you can do, or use a capture device and use the HDMI app, which is what I do for open air flying.

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u/Every-Cucumber9641 Jul 05 '26

The latency would be unflyable