Anker’s New Nebula X1 Projector Is Packed to the Gills With Unique Tech

Anker sub-brand Nebula conscionable debuted the X1 outdoor astute projector. Packed with unsocial exertion and sold alongside a wireless talker system, it's honestly the astir breathtaking projector I've seen this year, but it costs $2,999.

The Nebula X1 is benignant of beefy, clocking successful astatine 13.7 pounds and measuring conscionable nether a ft long. While a chunky physique isn't antithetic for triple-laser projectors, it seems that immoderate of Anker's unsocial exertion is contributing to the value of this beast. Not lone does the X1 usage an interior liquid cooling strategy to trim offset instrumentality noise, but it has a motorized lens that tin tilt up to 25 degrees and zoom up to 1.67×—an highly versatile optical zoom ratio that efficaciously lets you take betwixt short-throw oregon long-throw projection distances.

The projector supports a 4K solution with Dolby Vision enhancement, of course, and its brightness clocks successful astatine a coagulated 3,500 ANSI lumens. Anker besides promises 110% Rec.2020 sum (BenQ has a good explanation for that antithetic "110%" figure).

But 1 of the biggest selling points of this projector, astatine slightest from Anker's perspective, is the $999 wireless talker strategy add-on. The projector itself has 4 built-in speakers, of course, but the 2 80-watt outer speakers included successful Nebula's accessory battalion gives you a proper, portable 4.1.2 situation dependable system. The institution adjacent includes a acceptable of wireless microphones with the speakers, presumably for parties, firm events, oregon karaoke sessions wherever a microphone mightiness beryllium appropriate.

Each of the wireless speakers are IP54 rain-resistant and person an 8-hour artillery life. Plus, Anker sells a carrying lawsuit that tin acceptable the X1 projector and each of its accessories. These speakers link to the projector via Wi-Fi, by the way, truthful they lone person astir 25ms of latency and enactment Dolby Audio.

I got an aboriginal look astatine this projector a fewer months agone astatine CES 2025. Anker sat maine down successful a edifice country and played a fewer videos to show the prime of its wireless speakers—one video was of a quality scene, different had music. Someone asked if they could occurrence up a Joni Mitchell track, too, which I appreciated.

Honestly, the audio prime didn't stroke maine away. It was loud, clear, and bass heavy, but if you're buying a projector for your home, I suggest utilizing a regular-old soundbar oregon AVR for audio. The Nebula X1's wireless speakers are decidedly amended than what you'd get from a projector's built-in talker system, but they're champion suited for outdoor oregon on-the-go viewing parties. (I didn't get a accidental to trial the microphones, successful lawsuit you're wondering.)

That said, the X1's tilting lens is ace cool. It was the item of Anker's demonstration, which is kinda comic successful retrospect, arsenic the institution was a batch much funny successful telling maine astir its wireless talker system. Every laser projector should person this benignant of lens—laser projectors tend to beryllium a spot heavy and tin beryllium precise hard to equine oregon spot successful a room, truthful you're often forced to sacrifice a spot of ocular prime (and instrumentality connected immoderate other input lag) with integer keystone oregon zoom.

The Anker Nebula X1 launches May 1st for $2,999. The wireless talker accessory pack, sold separately, costs $999. That said, Anker volition connection a bundle for $3,298 done June 20th.

Source: Anker