obviously no sponsor is going to expect you to open up a video with this product
isn't for everyone but that's the truth which doesn't change the fact that the
nebula capsule 3 laser from anchor who
sponsored this video is super cool this
is a battery powered projector and not just any projector a battery-powered
laser projector that'll get you 300 nits
of brightness up to two and a half hours of battery life and it comes in a
handheld form factor that is literally the size of some Bluetooth speakers that
I've seen so if you're going camping I guess it's more of a glamping trip at
this point or you just want to quickly and easily set something up whether it's
that the kids are having a sleepover you need to quickly set up a presentation this is going to have you covered in
terms of accessories it comes with a power adapter and a USBC power cable and
this appears to be oh right that makes sense a remote it runs Android 11 and if
the I icons on the box or anything to go by
it has support for Chromecast Dolby audio and perhaps most importantly
Google Play Store now that might not seem like that big of a deal having
support for the Play Store on an Android you know TV device but I've run into
issues time and time again with these kinds of battery powered projectors
where they do not have proper Play Store access which means that getting apps
like Netflix that you might want on a projector can require tedious
workarounds at best and at worst not work at All My Hope Is that we won't run
into anything like that because that would be really awkward since again this
is a sponsored video
I'm trying to try to get the battery compartment open uh two aaa's
should get us going here we've got power microphone Google Assistant button
navigation buttons home back and settings as well as what appears to be
volume up and down as for the unit itself it's 1080p has a built-in camera
that's going to help us with auto Keystone and moving around to the back we've got an IR sensor pairing button
power and auxiliary input three and a half mil HDMI input and type c for power
this is fun got a threaded insert that appears to be quarter inch on the bottom
so you could mount it to a stand if you wanted but you don't have to you can
just plunk it on the table like that and you're pretty much ready
to go oh this is cool I forgot about this the
camera doesn't just do auto Keystone it does auto focus as well so it'll
actually use Machine Vision to say okay yeah your image is in Focus or it's
blurry and fix it for you kind of wild how small this thing is one
of these and two of their flare Tower Bluetooth speakers would actually be
like a sick movie theater in a in an underarm bag setup oh wait I don't have
an HD well I don't really need an HDMI input anyway do I nope not really okay
cool wait I didn't even need to plug it in it's battery powered what am I even
doing oh and I didn't even show you all the controls on the top you got what is
this power are these capacitive there's definitely back and navigation hello
power's on the back you oh wait oh
oh well it's almost certainly on now because these seem to be lit oh yep
hi uh do never look directly into a
laser projector fortunately this one isn't like really bright because it's
meant to be battery powered so I'm not blind this is actually very cool watch
this blurry
boom focused now something I want to know is if I put it somewhere uneven is
it just gonna
come on baby can you do it it tells you to block you're blocking the camera oh
I'm in the way of the camera oh for crying out loud okay fine fine fine I
mean honestly you never want Keystone if you can avoid it anyway but I just
wanted to see the capability so I'm gonna go find something uneven oh it's a
very saggy binder there's almost nothing in it crap this may not work I think it
did it but let's get the test pattern up a little more permanently before we
really evaluate it quickly set up with your Android phone oh cool okay sure
oh wow I didn't even have to do any of that it just prompted me I mean to be
clear any Android TV will do this same
thing it's just nice when it actually works
oh cool there's a dedicated button for autofocus and Q oh right right that was
right that button I glossed over earlier above the Google Assistant button we've
got power microphone Google Assistant button you can use it as a Bluetooth
speaker all right wow it's got four stars in the Play Store any companion
app for a piece of Hardware that's like to configure it almost invariably has
like two stars what are even happening right now
oh I have a mouse
that is actually kind of cool the number
of times that I have wished that I had something like this on my shield TV many
oh no that was volume
that it okay I opened the settings a
little laggy a little laggy on the volume control no no no no we've
darkened our room a little bit now this is still not dark dark like if you uh
point over there we've got ambient light coming into the office but we want to
give it a reasonable chance right because it's laser even though the
brightness isn't really high because the darks are so dark you actually end up
with a reasonably vibrant image even with a little bit of ambient light
is it playing the same clip again it was song of the Moon here previewing okay I
did not even know that the Android TV YouTube app had audio previews that's
extremely obnoxious Google please know I'm an expert no way it's got e-arc you
can hook this thing up to a sound bar how much storage does it have 16 gigs
okay of which four is taken up I'm assuming because it says there's 12
available and right I wanted to go to the Play Store let's get Twitch in there
weren't the devil do you get more apps apps hello get more apps sick you've
probably noticed that we're not even trying to project on this whole like
what is this 100 inches or 120 inch screen that's because that would be kind
of ridiculous for a 300 Lumen projector but this is more realistic this is
probably in the neighborhood of around 65 70 inches and exactly the kind of
thing that you could project on the side of your windowless panel van when you're
at a remote campsite overall pretty responsive uh this is cool though it's
not just IR once you're paired you don't
have to be pointed at it that's very very good let's fire up a demo clip from
Dolby oh sure audio pass through why not I'd love to see what it can do in
complete Blackness actually sorry people actually don't close those blinds just
yet this is like very usable it's not
cheap it's like 800 bucks but this is very usable and we haven't even tried it
with the speakers yet I would expect haven't actually heard them yet but I
would expect that anchors experience building Bluetooth speakers and other
personal audio products would help them out a lot here we might have to pick a
lower bit rate
now you would obviously never sit right next to it you'd sit back here behind
the projector and two anchors credit they actually have the speaker firing
backwards I don't even have this turned up all the way and again if you temper
your expectations you know if you don't
expect it to compete with a
7.4.2 atmos setup this is very usable it
is amazing what laser does for the
perceived contrast of a projector if you
gave me 300 lumens of LCD projector it would not look like this to my eye it's
fairly obvious that anchors got the greens pumped up a little bit too high
but again this isn't the kind of product that I'm expecting Perfect Color
accuracy out of or anything like that what I really want to see is if we could
go bigger on the screen if we made it darker in here do you want to go ahead
and and kill all the ambient light and let's see if we can fill the screen I'm
not going to knock this thing over all right
sorry oh whoops whoops whoops whoops oh
I ruined it I ruined all the things okay it's definitely dimmer but is there any
doubt that it's usable it does appear to
be playing back in HDR yeah 80 megabit
per second ain't happening not over this Wi-Fi connection so it does support HDR
but smartly they're not putting a ton of emphasis on it in the marketing that is
good that's very responsible anchor all right nebula by anchor excuse me man if
we were actually in a pitch black environment because we still aren't
it's like not bad no rainbow effect
because there's no DLP like look at that yeah it's not it's not bright obviously
they're definitely processing a little bit to get the contrast as high as it is
but it's not totally distastefully done
huh okay I don't know what else there is
to say other than this thing's kind of sick remember it's battery powered too
we didn't really talk about that that much but we are absolutely still in
movie watching mode here and we're completely untethered
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