Best VR Glasses - BOBOVR Z4 VR Glasses Review

Best VR Glasses on the market? Read our VR Glasses Review of the BOBOVR Z4 3D Virtual Reality Glasses!

Product: BOBOVR Z4 with bluetooth Controller
Category: VR Glasses for Smartphones (iPhone and Android)
Compatibility: 3.5 – 6.0 inch Smartphones (we used: Sony Xperia Z3 & iPhone)
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Virtual Reality, where you can play games, walk through your future dream house during the design process or fly above the earth in 3D becomes more and more popular. In the past the downside was a very high price, which made them hardly affordable. Since Google invented the Google Card-Board it became cheaper to dive into Virtual Reality and awesome 3D Worlds. Big disadvantage of the Card-Board is that you can’t really use your Smartphone when inserted in the Card-Board. Another one is the lack of good sound quality coming out of this “box”. If you are wearing glasses underneath the Card-Board it also can lead to less clear images or even headaches.

Therefore let’s take a look at a really good solution to all of these problems:

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BOBOVR Z4 3D Virtual Reality

First of all the new BOBOVR Z4 3D Virtual Reality Glasses are designed to give you a new experience of Virtual reality and 3D with seamless Smartphone integration. You can use any Smartphone with a 3.5 to 6.0 inch display.

After intense usage our favorite kind of using this device was really surprising …. read below!

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Installation

The installation process is really simple. Start with unboxing your device (of course 😉 ). After downloading a VR-App or Card-Board App (free for iPhone and Android) you can scan the QR-Code in the manual. This will do all settings automatically for you. Insert your phone into the BOBOVR Z4 and plug in the cable connection into your headphone jack. Adjust the straps (once) and you are ready to go!

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Possibilities / Comfort / Experience

Noteworthy is the list of features and possibilities. This really makes this device stand out from other similar products. Same with the overall build quality, which is really good (everything fits perfectly together). You have additional buttons to navigate through the menus and choose what you want to watch next. Whether you love watching videos from your Smartphone, the Live view with the camera, flying around with Google Earth or if you want to play Games – just make your selection and you are good to go.

The integrated Headphones are important as the BOBOVR Z4 is aiming for the title of the “Best VR Glasses”. Here they have a real good sound quality and make watching movies on this device awesome. You can control your phone, adjust the diopter settings control volume and the menu just with buttons on the device and looking in the right direction; e.g. choosing one of the videos from your phone they give you a 360 degree thumbnail view of all of your videos. Turning your head towards the thumbnail of your choice and pressing the button starts playing.

Viewing experience – if you are new to VR Glasses you will perhaps feel as if it is a bit strange at the beginning. Your Eyes and brain must get used to this new kind of viewing experience. After about 1 minute the effect passes and then the experience with this device is really good.

As a result of the bigger lenses compared to other VR Glasses, we were positively surprised by a more “direct view” on the scene without the eye noticing any borders. Next we tested several possibilities. Gaming is really fun with this device, Flying above the Earth and through canyons and cities via Google-Earth is amazing and benefits perfect from the greater viewing angle!

But the most fun started when we used this device to watch videos. From music clips to whole Hollywood-Movies the view is awesome. The sound through the integrated headphones even emphasizes this experience. Really great!

The provided view of the BOBOVR Z4 is noticeable larger than with other devices. You will see this difference immediately. It gives you a kind of real cinema feeling with a big crisp clear screen right before your eyes. Due tue the lenses causing a kind of zoom effect, the view gets much better with smaller pixels of your Smartphone-Display.

Watching movies or music videos are the real strength of this device.

Wearing Comfort. The good straps and the adjustable size combined with the cushioned front and headphones make wearing quite comfortable. The Headphones also lead to a better balance of the device with the “heavy” smartphone inserted. Quite a good, comfortable mixture and a big plus on the way to the best VR Glasses on the market.

Heat while using these Smartphone VR Glasses. Of course, watching long movies or videos will lead to an intense heat of your smartphone as all pictures must be calculated for each eye separately. The Design helps to get rid of some of the heat (as you can see above). The combination of intense usage and body temperature still leaves us sweating underneath the cushions. But this is something you will notice with any VR Glasses as it is part of the form factor.

The Remote Control. In addition to the comfort this little device surprised us during our testing. As a result it enhances the all day using experience and pushes the BOBOVR Z4 towards it’s goal to become the best VR glasses on the market! We absolutely LOVE the Remote control that comes with the device.

Here is why: You connect it via bluetooth to your phone. Even not using the VR Glasses you can use this remote for different other tasks as well. Listening to your favorite music. With your Smartphone connected to your music system, you can skip tracks or make adjustments from far apart with the remote. In addition you can use it as a kind of joystick for other games on your phone – this worked perfect, especially with simple games. We really started to use this device very often completely on its own. Of course you can control all menus and surf through the VR apps or use it as a game controller with the BOBOVR Z4 Glasses.

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CONCLUSION- PROS and CONS

Are the BOBOVR Z4 3D Virtual Reality Glasses one of the best VR Glasses on the Market?

If you limit your view to the smartphone attached devices we can clearly give you our full recommendation for this device. There are nearly no other devices as comfortable. The BOBOVR Z4 are well build and come with a great list of features, buttons and the build in headphones. Of course there are more professional users for advanced CAD or CAM Software who would naturally use PC Attached devices with dedicated LCD’s but this is not the main purpose of these devices.

When you are looking for an awesome, easy and fun to use VR Headset – this one truly should be considered.

PROS

+ Easy to Install / Setup
+ Good Build Quality
+ Comfortable to Wear
+ Wide Viewing Angle
+ A Lot of useful Features
+ Headphones Integrated
+ Remote Control