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Binoculars? Nope!
The most sophisticated gear to view with are in your head, your eyes!
Even though they 'radiate' from an apparent point, they may appear anywhere in the sky. Think of the rays of the sun. They stream out from a point. The meteors may appear anywhere along these 'rays'.
As consequence, using any type of optical aid will give you too narrow a field of view.
The only other way to help view is by using long exposure photography with a wide field lens. The advantage of this is that it will pickup meteors you may miss. The other thing this will do, it will aggregate the meteors to show their point of radiance.
The camera doesn't need to track either. Leaving the camera fixed will with time show star trails as Earth rotates.
The picture below shows circumpolar star trails (here the north pole, the south celestial pole doesn't have a prominent Pole Star), with a white meteor streak, and the red trail of a passing aircraft.
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