AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles
| Color Night Vision | 4K | WiFi | Infrared |
We are reviewing the AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles, the very first night vision goggles from AKASO.
AKASO is better known as a brand dedicated to manufacturing action cams but the brand seems to be expanding their offering and expertise in video capturing devices with this new AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles.
In fact, in the past we have reviewed an action camera from the brand (AKASO Brave 7) which proved to offer superb value for money and very good performance.
You might find the AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles also as AKASO Seemor-S200, both are the same product as the latter is actually the full model name.
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AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles Review
Tests & Scores
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Advanced Features
The AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles is equipped with special features such as:
• 4K resolution
• Color Night Vision
• IR modes
• AI-ISP
• WiFi
• App compatible
• Compass
• Level
4.5/5
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Accessories & Packaging
The AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles come packed in mid-sized box that includes:
• 2x batteries
• Strap
• Hard case
• Charging cable
• Cleaning cloth
No external charger was included by default – at least not with our unit but current listings seem to include the charger.
4.25/5
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Design
The footprint of the AKASO Seemor Night Goggles is inline with the size of an average hand with the fingers spread, this makes the unit easily manageable with either one or 2 hands – the height of the device is about half the width of a modern smartphone.
You will see 2 protruding ends that look like the typical binocular lens and support to put your eyes on but, instead, on the Akaso Seemor this is opposite end and not where you should place your eyes; the output image of the Seemor is seen through the large mirror/viewfinder window that holds behind a large color display.
The protruding barrels are an optical end and an IR light assistive with active, adjustable and real infrared lights.
To record photos and/or videos, the Seemor holds under a waterproof gasket a microSD slot, accepting cards of up to 512GB. If you are not intending to record any images, the Akaso Seemor can also be used without any card.
On the top section of the shell you can find 6 physical and backlit buttons that allow the complete operation, setup and use if the device.
If you want to set the goggles in a fixed, more stable position, the Seemor has a top and bottom metal thread for standard tripods; also the shell sports a top connector to use Action Cam supports and some attachments or even to place an independent actioncam on top of the goggles.
We would had loved to see an addon to use it “handless” like a military night goggle or a VR headset style – we have a couple of spare head straps from some Meta Quest headsets, so we might see if we are able to apply some DIY creativity to adapt it to the Akaso Seemor
4.25/5
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Operation & Control
The Seemor has 7 physical buttons sitting on the top shell, these provide all the controls, navigation and setting controls of the device and are easily reachable by the same hand that holds the goggles.
In addition to the buttons, the left front end barrel of the device (end that holds the optical lens) works as a focusing ring to set the right focus depending on the distance of the object from the goggles. The rotational movement of the focusing barrel was smooth and had plenty of movement range to be precise and finely tunable.
Once you have set the focus, image mode and desired framing, users can decide to live view the real-time video, opt for taking photos or record videos of the night vision in either night color vision or IR modes.
4.25/5
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Construction & Build
Internally, the AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles holds a CMOS sensor that is responsible of receiving the optical image and transform it into a digital signal/image – CMOS sensors are typically seen as the image sensor in digital photography and videography cameras since the early beginning of the digital photo/video up to modern times.
Externally, the case of the Akaso Seemor if nearly all constructed in plastic, which combined with a particularly light weight of the unit, it might not feel like the most rugged and heavy-duty tool but the device did neither feel flimsy nor showed signs of being a fragile, screaking toy but there are no caps/shields protector for the lenses and viewfinder/screen, still you get a sturdy and very nice hard case for free.
In fact, the Akaso Seemor sports an IPX5 waterproof rating to withstand the typical water/dust abuse of some type of outdoor use without failing nor breaking.
4.5/5
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Screen
The end from where users see the night vision produced by the AKASO Seemor is a large 3″ color TFT display panel.
This color screen had excellent quality with sharpness, non-pixelated output and produced remarkable contrast, color saturation with defined text and on-screen menus.
A detail that we noticed was that for users intending to rest the forehead on the silicone visor, the viewfinder might be a too close to comfortably see the screen contents, without getting the eyes a farther away from the silicone support you might not be able to see the output image fully in-focus (like when you get you smartphone or book too close to you)
A deeper, larger and more sealing eye cover would had been appreciated to enhance the screen vision even further.
4.5/5
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Connectivity
The AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles includes an internal WiFi chip making it capable to generate a hotspot WiFi connection with mobile devices using the Akaso app.
This WiFi connection enables advanced features like wireless remote live viewing of the video captured by the Seemor and even the option to start/stop remote recording of videos and photos. On the other hand, the mobile app locks the Seemor from changing any setting and the app itself is quite basic without any access to the device’s settings, configuration, etc.
This alone transforms the Akaso Seemor in a potential night vision camera to be set at a farther distance from the user to observe or capture remotely night events or be placed for capturing sneaky wildlife.
4/5
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Performance
The AKASO Seemor has endless uses that can range from wildlife observation during nighttime, hunting, cityscape night sightseeing, night exploration, night trekking, camping, night control/security, remote night camera system or for peeping Toms (not judging).
Even, the Seemor can be used as an aid for night trails or if you got lost as it has an internal gyroscope and compass that gives a realtime compass while observing the night vision screen output.
The AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles is so versatile that can also work as a digital binocular during daytime.
On top of that, the IR supportive light was far from a gimmick and provided massive difference to see even the darkest spots and details. This IR light is adjustable in 7 levels of intensity but even the lowest setting was impressively bright with net improvement in night vision and reach. Moreover, the IR light had a surprisingly long-reach even at hundreds of meters.
During the extreme dark tests, the Akaso Seemor enabled us to see things that were simply pitch black and full darkness at plain sight, which we were, truly, not expecting such good results from an accessibly-priced night vision device like the AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles.
It is worth mentioning that both batteries came almost depleted from factory so you cannot get it out of the box and use it right away; plan ahead and consider that you will need to charge them first.
Nonetheless, with a maximum of up to 8 hours of battery life per charge, it is quite remarkable how much runtime you get – 8 hours are achievable in color mode while using it in infrared mode it will reach a max. of 4 hours. If your unit does not come with the external charger, you can charge the batteries by connecting the goggles to an USB charger.
Our real-life tests, though, showed that the battery runtimes may be achieved as long as you do not activate IR mode and showed a massive drainage of battery when Wi-Fi Hotspot and/or IR assist lights were turned on – with achievable runtimes as short as 1 hour.
Be sure to match the AKASO Seemor with a quality MicroSD card that can support the writing speeds for 4K video.
4/5
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Image Quality
For the use that the AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles has been designed, the image/video quality produced at 4K is remarkably good; of course, this is not a professional-grade video camera meant to produce Hollywood movies at night.
Specifically, users can decide to set the image capture resolution at 4K (3840×2160) or 2688×1520; on both modes, the Akaso Seemor can also record audio but the video recording duration is fixed and selectable as 1 minute, 2 minutes or 3 minutes.
ANGLE OF VIEW
The AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles has a 50mm lens, but this focal length is over a smaller sensor than a full-frame sensor, thus effectively results in a FOV magnification. Nonetheless, this is not a super-telephoto lens like a Canon or Nikon 600mm for ultra-long-range observation.
When directly comparing it with a 100mm on a full-frame digital camera, the AKASO Seemor showed to offer higher magnification and reach. From our tests, we could estimate that the full-frame lens equivalent to the reach of the AKASO would be between 150mm and 200mm of focal length – see the comparison photos below (1st AKASO, 2nd full-frame camera with 100mm lens)
To provide long-range viewing and reaching a telephoto styled vision, the AKASO Seemor has a maximum of 16x zoom for up to 32870ft of viewing range.
Despite this, it is worth mentioning that the 5 levels of zoom (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x) are digital zoom and not optical zoom; therefore, the image degradation will be noticeable and exponentially more evident the bigger the zoom rate is been selected. We would not rate the zoomed images as worthy for a high quality 4K video/photo to win the 1st prize of contest but most of them were usually more than capable of offering a night vision access for night wildlife/sightseeing observation and detection.
A feature that we were not expecting is that the lens of the AKASO Seemor allows it to achieve a fairly decent macro close focusing and max macro magnification.
The following comparison photos are: 1st Scene with a smartphone camera, 2nd Professional camera with pro-grade lens, 3rd AKASO color mode, 4th AKASO IR mode.
DEFINITION/RESOLUTION
In color mode, users gain access to jaw-dropping observation of completely dark situations in a fairly well-achieved color video; of course, some color distortion will be present but it was very well achieved for the darkness of the environments tested.
You can clearly see the AI magic taking care of the noise cancellation and artifacts as soon as you stop moving the goggles. While you are panning with the Seemor you will see artifacts and noise but the device will apply a highly proficient cleaning up of the image when the unit is kept still. This is even achieved conserving excellent sharpness and definition with no evident blurring nor reduction in image quality nor detail reproduction.
Even more noticeable, when using the AKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles in IR mode, the greyscale images where always significantly cleaner and with less noise.
Below you can see direct comparisons with a professional-grade full-frame digital camera combined with a pro-lens with f2.0; to achieve an acceptable exposure the camera was needed to be set to ISO 3200 and is was nearly impossible to manual focus as there was zero light in a pitch-black situation.
On the “rocks/beach” the elements where in complete darkness and you can start to see the added value of the image revealing brightness and capability of the AKASO.
Also from the test photos you can see what a modern smartphone was able to photograph in the same situations.
We can rate the image quality of the AKASO Seemor as an observation goggle and not that much as a content creation or video production one.
The following comparison photos are: 1st Photo with modern smartphone, 2nd Professional camera with pro-grade lens, 3rd AKASO color mode, 4th AKASO IR mode, 5th AKASO IR mode with IR assist light.
EXPOSURE
The exposure of the images is automatically measured and adjusted by the Akaso Seemor, providing the best exposure for each situation without having to make the user worry about adjusting the aperture and f-stop to get a correct exposure.
3.75/5
ScoresAKASO Seemor Night Vision Goggles Scores
- Features - 9/109/10
- Accessories - 8.5/108.5/10
- Design - 9/109/10
- Operation & Control - 8.5/108.5/10
- Construction & Build - 8.5/108.5/10
- Screen - 9/109/10
- Connectivity - 8/108/10
- Performance - 8/108/10
- Image Quality - 7.5/107.5/10
- Value for Money - 8/108/10
Summary
✅ 4K Video recording
✅ Night color vision
✅ Infrared mode
✅ IR light
✅ Large viewfinder
✅ Complete darkness revealing
❌ Zoom is not optical
❌ Image quality not comparable with pro photo cameras
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