REVIEW | LUMOS FLOAT Trustworthy Evaluation ~ First 360° Rotatable Projector

OUT OF THE BOX

INCLUDED ACCESSORIES FOR THE LUMOS FLOAT

The LUMOS FLOAT is available in a nifty 8 x 7.5 x 5.5 inch field, weighing simply under a kilo. The bundle accommodates a distant management, energy twine, feminine RCA to AV 3.5mm jack cable (for exterior audio system), HDMI twine (to attach laptops), screws and washers with Allen wrench (in case you need to set up the unit on the wall or ceiling), a mini-instruction handbook (in case you really need to learn it, which I at all times do, lol), and the projector.

The entire bundle is closely and securely padded, so you may relaxation simple about dealing with issues throughout delivery.

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LUMOS FLOAT SPECS & PRICING

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS HANDSOME PROJECTOR?

The LUMOS FLOAT is available in two variations, the FLOAT Sensible (₱7,999.00) and FLOAT Common (₱4,999.00). The primary distinction between the 2 is the shortage of a full Android OS on the Common. That implies that if you wish to watch one thing utilizing the Common, you’d must bodily join a USB thumb drive or your laptop computer to the unit. The Sensible is available in three colours, gold, silver, and pink, whereas the Common solely is available in silver. It may be bought instantly from the LUMOS official web site.

Beneath is the complete specification and comparability of the LUMOS FLOAT Sensible and Common.

LUMOS FLOAT FULL SPECS

MOVIE SESSION: THE LUMOS FLOAT HOME THEATER EXPERIENCE

READYING FOR OUR FRIYAY MOVIE NIGHT

We examined the LUMOS FLOAT Sensible on our regular Friyay Session at dwelling and located it to be enjoyable and straightforward to make use of.

THE BUILD

LUMOS FLOAT BUILD QUALITY

Upon preliminary inspection, I discovered the construct to be a bit plasticky however nonetheless sturdy sufficient for each day use—effectively, you’re in all probability not gonna be shifting it that a lot. We’ve the silver model, and I like how compact and modern it appears. In comparison with the LUMOS RAY, that is actually tiny. In case you’re not gonna mount it completely, it’s fairly simple to retailer and retrieve for a viewing session.

I’m positively loving the 360-degree adjustable metallic brace, which was one of many issues I want the unique LUMOS RAY had—lastly, no have to stuff random issues on the underside to appropriately angle and lift the projection. It’s so versatile you may even challenge it in your ceiling and watch whereas mendacity in your mattress.

The brace, which could be connected to a wall and even your ceiling, could be tightened for a everlasting angle by adjusting the screws on each side utilizing the offered Allen wrench. It felt sturdy sufficient to sufficiently maintain the unit with out concern of breaking.

TURNING IT ON FOR THE FIRST TIME

TURNING ON LUMOS FLOAT FOR THE FIRST TIME

Upon turning it on, the projection will naturally seem blurry, and you must alter the main focus utilizing the distant management’s F+ and F- buttons. As soon as it comes into focus, you’ll then have to manually alter the place of the particular unit, then fine-tune it utilizing the Projection settings to make each aspect absolutely horizontal and vertical.

The subsequent step was to hook up with the Wi-fi, which was simple and painless.

It has a handbook setting, in which you’ll be able to enter the time and date your self, or you may set it on Automated Date & Time, which lets the Web right it. In my case, it took a little bit of time to sync (in all probability on account of my Web connection), so I resorted to manually setting it. I attempted closing and turning the unit again on—to see if it might retain the dates—however it reverted again to the wrong default date. In the long run, I simply set it to Automated Date & Time and easily waited for it to right itself.

With all this, I received a really feel for a way the distant management labored, and I preferred how mild, simple, intuitive, and responsive it was.

THE INTERFACE

THE LUMOS FLOAT HOME TAB

The LUMOS FLOAT Sensible has an Android 9 OS with a Whale TV launcher. The interface is split into six tab classes—Search, Residence, Apps, Video, Music, and Settings.

The SEARCH tab is for looking something on YouTube. HOME lists down fashionable TV apps, plus those who you latterly used. APPS has all the favored apps, and if you happen to click on the final arrow, all of the apps put in on the system. VIDEO has classes you may select that search by means of YouTube when you click on them. Equally, the MUSIC tab additionally performs this manner, and in addition on YouTube. And eventually, the SETTINGS is of course the place all of the settings are.

All these, beside the Settings tab, have big flashy carousel splash screens on the prime, which you can’t change or flip off. Though I can see how this sort of format could enchantment to folks, with every part being inside just a few clicks, I personally discovered the interface to be too cluttered and redundant. I like easy layouts, much like what the unique LUMOS RAY has.

To treatment this, I downloaded a customized launcher to switch the feel and appear of my LUMOS FLOAT’s interface. I used the pre-installed Google Play Retailer to put in Projectivity Launcher, and voila, a clear and streamlined interface! Now, let’s begin watching.

TV APPS

THE MUSIC TAB

The LUMOS FLOAT Sensible comes with pre-installed streaming apps—fashionable ones like YouTube and Netflix, and regional ones like MastroTV and aDrama for Chinese language viewers. A couple of of the opposite apps, like Disney+, Fb, or Spotify, you’d have to put in your self, which was simple sufficient. Simply press, say, the Spotify button, and it takes you to the set up web page.

USING NETFLIX ON THE LUMOS FLOAT

Many of the apps I attempted labored flawlessly besides Netflix. I can’t appear to make it reply utilizing the distant management. I up to date the app utilizing the built-in App Retailer—not Google’s; it’s not accessible there—however it’s nonetheless not working. It seems, the answer to make Netflix work on LUMOS FLOAT was to activate the mouse mode on the distant management and use the mouse pointer to navigate by means of the Netflix display screen. From there on, it labored with no hitch.

THE PORTS

THE PORTS ARE FOUND ON THE BACK OF LUMOS FLOAT

I additionally tinkered with the media ports on the LUMOS FLOAT, that are conveniently positioned on the again. It has 4 ports—an AV (for exterior audio system), USB, HDMI, a headphone slot, and an IR receiver (probably not a port, for the distant).

The USB drive labored effectively, instantly popping up a window as I inserted it. The built-in media participant was capable of play MP4 and MKV movies popularly encoded in H264 and H265 codecs. I attempted much less fashionable codecs like AV1, and expectedly, wasn’t capable of play it.

I put in VLC and MX Participant from the Google Play Retailer, however it nonetheless gained’t play. I later uninstalled VLC however retained MX Participant, as I discovered it to be simpler to make use of than the inventory media participant. Plus, it has an Audio Delay perform, which is beneficial for Bluetooth latency points.

SOUND QUALITY

SPEAKER GRILLS ON THE SIDE OF THE LUMOS FLOAT

LUMOS FLOAT has the identical two 3W audio system (4Ω3W x 2) that the LUMOS RAY has, so I used to be anticipating respectable sound from it. The FLOAT, nonetheless, has a tinier sound in comparison with its predecessor, likely on account of its smaller construct. It’s, nonetheless, nonetheless fairly respectable—particularly in a quiet room.

In a room with a number of ambient noise, I needed to flip the quantity as much as 30 to 40 to audibly perceive a vlog on YouTube, and a quantity setting of 100 nonetheless felt low. In a quiet room, a setting of 10 is sufficient to hear the identical vlog audibly, and 100 feels very loud.

One factor I observed is that the spatial sound leans extra to the proper. Whereas the unit really has two separate audio system for a stereo impact—one every for the left and proper channels—the again design, which has grills the place many of the sounds come out of, has the left and center ones closed off, making the rightmost grill the one means for the sound to come back out of. Granted there are additionally speaker grills off the perimeters, however these appeared too small to make a distinction.

For informal customers, the sound is certainly adequate, higher than those popping out of your flatscreen TVs. However, for a chest-thumping cinema-like expertise, it’s nonetheless finest to attach the LUMOS FLOAT to a devoted speaker system, both by way of a wired system or by means of a Bluetooth connection. And with that, I attempted connecting the LUMOS FLOAT to my 12-watt TriBit MaxSound Plus, a mid-range Bluetooth speaker, and eventually received that oomph I used to be in search of.

BLUETOOTH CONNECTION

CONNECTING TO THE LUMOS VIA BLUETOOTH

Connecting gadgets to the LUMOS FLOAT is feasible utilizing its Bluetooth 4.0 functionality. As talked about above, I linked my speaker utilizing this connection with none hassle.

I did expertise a little bit of a hitch when connecting my Marshall Main headphones. It could possibly discover the system however merely gained’t join. A easy restart mounted the problem. The headphones labored.

I additionally tried to attach one other pair of Bluetooth headphones, a Kenwood, to see if the LUMOS FLOAT can deal with two headphones directly, which is ideal for watching late-night motion pictures along with my spouse with out waking our son. It does join concurrently, however just one pair of headphones works.

In case you expertise audio latency, or delayed audio for regular-people converse—which is kind of widespread when utilizing Bluetooth—it may be overcome by utilizing third-party apps.

PICTURE QUALITY

CRISP AND VIBRANT PROJECTION FROM THE LUMOS FLOAT

And eventually, the LUMOS FLOAT’s image high quality.

I used to be really blown away at how big its projection was on our wall in comparison with the LUMOS RAY with the identical unit-to-wall distance ratio. I’d say it’s about 20 to 30 % bigger. With a brightness of three,000 lumens and a most projection dimension of 150 inches, the movies are crisp and the colours are vibrant, particularly if the room is absolutely darkish. It’s price noting that I’m projecting this on a grey wall, so you may simply think about how brighter the image can be if it’s projected on a white one.

I additionally examined it in the course of the daytime, and it’s surprisingly viewable, although with lesser readability, in fact.

KID A, WATCHING TOTORO DURING A STORMY DAY

The projector has a native decision of 720p, and their web site says it may help as much as 1080p. I attempted taking part in movies with these resolutions, and so they’re actually fairly good. I additionally tried a lesser decision of 480p, and even with its huge display screen dimension, it’s nonetheless fairly respectable.

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IMPROVEMENTS & WISHLIST

THE LUMOS FLOAT ALONGSIDE LUMOS RAY

There’s not a lot to dislike concerning the LUMOS FLOAT. The one factor I may consider can be a a lot sturdier materials for the physique—however that’s probably not saying that it’s flimsy in any respect—and it might in all probability overwhelm the unit, which might defeat its FLOAT moniker. I simply preferred how strong the LUMOS RAY felt in comparison with the FLOAT.

The interface may additionally positively get a much-needed facelift. I want a smoother, extra environment friendly, and fewer cluttered look. And even perhaps simply the choice of with the ability to customise it with out the necessity for a third-party launcher.

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AFTER-SALES SUPPORT

BOTTOM PORTION OF LUMOS FLOAT

The LUMOS FLOAT Sensible and Common have a full one-year guarantee from the date of buy, and so they have native help within the Philippines. You could contact them at help@lumosprojector.ph or by means of their FB Messenger Chat by way of their Fb Web page.

FINAL THOUGHTS

HAPPY WITH THE LUMOS FLOAT

I discover pleasure in utilizing the LUMOS FLOAT; it’s small and lightweight sufficient to make use of ceaselessly even with out mounting. And if you happen to ever mount it, because it was supposed, then it turns into much more handy, as you may simply swivel it round 360 levels. I really like how responsive it was. And eventually, its huge projection dimension—even at such a small distance—and crisp and vibrant image high quality are positively spectacular. With its worth, I like to recommend this for many who need to simulate a cinema-like expertise inside their houses with out siphoning off their life financial savings and having their spouse divorce them.

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