The DJI Goggles 3 live feed on your Mac, over USB-C. Record it, replay it, send it to OBS.
Download GogglesView 0.11.0 (3.5 MB) Free and GPL-3.0. Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Read the source.
Measured
Point the goggles at a stopwatch running on the Mac's own screen. The picture in the app shows an older time than the stopwatch does. The gap is the whole delay: camera, air link, goggles, USB, decode, display.
Each reading is good to about one frame at 60 Hz, 17 ms. The app's own share is a few milliseconds of that.
| Run | Stopwatch | In the app | Delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 49.55 | 49.42 | 130 ms |
| 2 | 52.44 | 52.27 | 170 ms |
| 3 | 53.45 | 53.29 | 160 ms |
| 4 | 48.19 | 48.05 | 140 ms |
| 5 | 46.85 | 46.72 | 130 ms |
| Mean | 146 ms | ||
Recording
No re-encode, so no quality loss. Files go to ~/Movies/GogglesView as .mov or .mp4.
Send it somewhere
New in 0.5
Electronic stabilization that adds no frames of delay, .cube LUT looks, and a separate crop for what you record and stream. Covered by tests, not yet tried much on live goggles, so tell me what looks off.
Control
Menu bar controls, global hotkeys, a gogglesview:// URL scheme and AppleScript. Start a recording from a shell script with open gogglesview://….
Replay
A rolling buffer you can write to disk after the moment passes.
For OBS and for more than one pair
A chrome-less capture window for Window Capture, optional keep-on-top, and a mini window. Plug in several goggles and each gets its own window and settings. The app checks GitHub for updates, verifies the checksum and signature, and installs them only when you are not recording.
General, Display, Recording, Streaming and Advanced. Presets switch a whole set of options at once, and each pair of goggles can keep its own saved profile that applies when it connects.
The same window runs the update check, the diagnostics report and the latency benchmark. Recording options here include splitting by length or size, a loop mode that keeps only the last few minutes, and auto-delete of old files.
Live stabilization has one strength slider. Color looks take any 3D .cube file, with an intensity control and separate switches for the preview and for what you record and stream.
Output framing has its own aspect, zoom and position, so the preview can stay 16:9 while the file or stream is a vertical 9:16 crop.
UDP, RTMP, the local web viewer, SRT and NDI are set up separately. The switch at the top turns the keyframe encoder on or off, and the stepper beside it sets its bitrate.
The RTMP stream key is kept in the macOS Keychain. The web viewer listens on localhost unless you allow other devices.
The gallery lists everything in your recordings folder with a thumbnail, length and size. Open a clip, reveal it in Finder, share it, trim it or move it to the Trash.
Trimming copies the stream between two points instead of encoding it again, so quality stays as recorded.
The clips and thumbnails in this picture are generated samples.
Start or stop a recording, save the replay, take a screenshot, freeze the picture, add a marker or start the network stream without bringing the window forward.
This image is redrawn from the menu's own items, not a screen capture.
The goggles draw their own overlay (flight data, battery, link strength, storage warnings) into the video they send. With a drone linked, the camera picture sat in the middle of that frame at about 70% of its width and height, with the overlay in the margins.
That overlay shows up in OBS and in recordings. To get a clean picture, turn it off on the goggles: Settings > Camera > Advanced camera settings > Camera View Recording > off. Or crop it out with Output framing.
Frame rate follows what the goggles send: about 35 frames per second in our test with a drone linked, 60 in an earlier one.
OTG Wired Connection to Computer. Unplug before you toggle it, then plug back in.
The goggles send one full picture when Share Liveview starts and none after. If you connect late, the app has nothing to start from and says so.
On the goggles, switch Share Liveview to Mobile Device via Wi-Fi off and on again. That's a limit of the goggles' stream, not something the app can fix.
Zebra marks blown highlights and focus peaking outlines the sharpest edges, both drawn on the live view. Here zebra is set to 95 and peaking is green at medium strength: the sky and sun are striped, and the gate and the in-focus cone are outlined while the blurred cone is not.
The picture is a generated test scene, not a goggles frame.
gvnet is a command line tool that receives the goggles' stream over the network, so it can run outside macOS. It has not yet been tried on real goggles outside macOS. Read how it works.
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