Royole Moon Review: A movie theater in your bag

As a reviewer, there are certain items that you really look forward to receiving. Testing out the latest in technology is certainly one of the perks of this job, and the Royole Moon looks to be a potential revolution in entertainment and consumption. While the entire project is not perfect, The Royole Moon lays the groundwork for new ways of consuming media in the future. Whether you’re on a long trip, or you just want to kick back at home and enter a private world, the Royole Moon is a pricey way to do just that.

At its core, the Royole Moon is looking to put a compact, foldable movie theatre experience in your bag. In many ways it comes close, but we’ll get to that in a little bit. The Royole Moon is a headset with high resolution screen and headphones all wrapped into one, but it’s not a VR headset. This is designed for movies, games, and other media consumption.

Hardware

The Moon operates on a custom Android-based operating system that utilizes the right earpiece as a touch sensor. The touch sensor works like a TrackPad so you can navigate up, down, left, and right, and in some cases, manipulate a mouse pointer. A tap on the ear piece selects, a double tap goes back. The circumference of the ear cup turns your volume up and down. Overall, it’s an elegant way to navigate.

Optically, the Moon uses 2 AMOLED displays – one for each eye at 1080p resolution (over 3000 PPI), so images are clear and sharp – or at least they are once you’ve set the optics to your taste. If you wear glasses, that’s not a problem as each eye piece can be focused, allowing adjustments from -7.0 Diopter nearsightedness to +2.0 Diopter farsightedness. The Moon cannot correct for astigmatism (so it’s a good thing I had mine surgically repaired).

All ears

On the audio end, you have high-quality sound coming from the built-in headphones. The headphones have active noise cancellation algorithms that will cancel out most droning noises, airplanes for example. The isolation on the headphones is not the best, but decent. Active noise cancellation helps with constant tones, but if you’re trying to drown out a house full of kids and dogs, you’ll have a hard time believing you’re in a movie theatre.

The Royale Moon is not just a headset – the Moon is powered by the Moon “Box”. The Box handles the memory, battery, and connectivity of the headset. If you want to play from an HDMI source, like the HDMI output of my Macbook, that connects through the Box. The Box also contains 32 GB of storage for movies and other media. The Box and the headset connect together via a single cable.

Let’s all go to the movies

Overall, the movie and media consumption experience is great. Once you can kick back and relax and take in a Star Wars movie, you’re golden. When you suspend disbelief just a little bit, you can actually picture an 800-inch screen [...]

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