so ive been flying the original Avata for about a year now and honestly love it but keep seeing people talk about the Avata 2 like its this massive leap forward. my main use is just casual proximity flying, nothing crazy, sometimes take it out to shoot some footage of trails and stuff near where i live. not racing or anything like that.

the thing is i already have the goggles 2 and the motion controller so i'd have to factor in whether i need the goggles 3 or if the existing kit works with the v2. last i checked the goggles 2 still work with avata 2 but someone in a facebook group told me thats not right and now im confused. anybody actually running avata 2 with the older goggles setup? and is the low light improvement actually noticeable in real world use or is that just marketing fluff

goggles 2 absolutely work with the Avata 2, whoever told you otherwise was just wrong. been running that combo since i got mine in march and zero issues. the pairing process is the same, DJI kept backward compat on that which was nice of them honestly.

as for the low light thing ? yeah it's real but maybe not dramatic if you're shooting in decent conditions most of the time. where i noticed it the most was golden hour stuff, the original Avata would start getting that muddy noise around that time and the v2 just handles it way cleaner. if you're mostly shooting midday on trails probably not a huge deal. the bigger thing for me was the image quality overall feels a step up, the stabilization in normal mode is noticeably smoother. whether that's worth the cost coming from a working Avata 1 setup... honestly probably not unless you're finding actual limitations with what you have now

i made the jump from avata 1 to 2 a few months ago and kind of regret it a little, not because the 2 is bad but because the 1 was already doing everything i needed and now i just have less money lol. the fan noise reduction on the 2 is real though if that matters for your use case