The metaverse has been everywhere lately, for reasons both intriguing and for reasons that are… less so. Facebook’s multibillion-dollar transformation into Meta has been one of the biggest stories in tech—met by excitement in certain corners and skepticism just about everywhere else.
So, today we’re tearing down the Meta Quest Pro to see what the cutting edge of Zuck’s vision looks like on the inside, and what separates this new $1500 headset from the far more affordable $400 Quest 2.
If you missed our Quest 2 teardown check it out here!
We used almost every tool in our Pro Tech Toolkit trying to figure out how to get the Quest Pro apart.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:37 X-Ray
00:48 Headset Features
01:13 Replaceable Components
01:36 Battery Assembly
02:06 Headset Battery
02:41 Mystery Circuit
02:57 End of Replaceable Components
03:17 Speakers
03:27 Front Plastic
03:49 Missing Sensor
04:13 The Way In
04:33 Lens Removal
05:21 Lens Construction
05:41 System on Chip
05:57 Controller Features
06:29 Opening Process
07:04 Thumbstick Assembly
07:31 Mystery Lever
08:14 Trigger Haptics
08:42 Controller Battery
09:08 Headset Complexity
09:35 Outro
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That headset looks scary
Have to appreciate the hardware on this, extremely awesome teardown!
I'm really hoping Valve can take Metas bag, I really like the engineering behind this but I'm not buying into the Meta ecosystem. I have no interest in giving the Zuck anything.
Now put it back together 😊
Looks like expensive crap.
dammm.. kind of the price make so much more sense, like or not, its an amazing piece of technology
3:05 How are those tiny stickers called tamper proof yet you can easily just rip them to access the screw?
rubber is disgusting, its going to get greasy and sweaty, so nasty. ill take breathable cloth fabric any day
I imagine they could have got away with half the amount of screws my god.
After watching this I am not supprised it cost 1500 USD
I guess the "little flex cables" on the batteries are used to charge the lipo batteries at the factory in an easier way than using an USB-C cable. The multiple contact points are use for the negative, positive and the others to balance each individual cells. Correct me if I'm wrong.
horizon wold is a metaverce but the metaverce is not horizon world
thank you very much for the great videos! 🙂
a company like Meta will never make a product that can "repaired" by a user.
Most of the battery connector wires are plus, minus, and a sens for each, as well as temperature, and beside the center pads of the terminals, there is an SCL and SDA link. These are serial data connections. The gold pads are pair oriented (connected together) in an up pair, a down pair, a wide pair, and a center. This is similar to a quadrant sensor, for measuring the direction of something (usually light with 4 optic sensors, or sound pressure with 3 or 4 actual sensors). And from this view side, they are simply gold plated pads (no temperature, or other discrete components attached), which makes me think they are an odd type of external capacitive (proximity) sensors, and face away, rearward from head. I wonder if there was anything matching them on the underside of the thin plastic cover, which had a square raised area above the pads. So, in summary, I too have no idea what they're for – but are probably the source of the data, and clock signals, from a small encoding chip, along with temp sensors. They could be for capacitively monitoring the battery (thickness?), but this is elaborate way of doing so, so I doubt it. Intrigued I am.
Who was excited about it? Zuck himself?
I don’t think ANYONE was excited about it
interesting piece of trash
4:32 When they say they've only used it a little
Strapping a Lithium battery to your head, what could go wrong?
those FFC's on the back ofthe batteries are wheatstone bridge load cells. they are used to measure the swelling of the cells
Battery behind your head – for better SAO experience in case of explosion.
multibillion NO LEGS
Since this is a prosumer/business device, it is absolved of criticism regarding price to some degree.
The Quest Pro is a good deal. It's just too expensive for consumers if the Quest 3 tries to parody even half of the QP's functionality.
If Lamborghini made an Aventador, and proceeded to sell it at-cost as a way to appeal to frugally minded consumers, it would still be too expensive for most people.
With time Meta will, hopefully, take what they learned in producing this device and apply it in their future designs in order to make more cost optimized designs for the consumers they no doubt would like to pull into their metaverse.
wild
@ 2:42 those looks like Meta is stealing brainwave data and selling them to research centers
This product should deliver the following warning:
“CAUTION: By purchasing this product, you are effectively agreeing to pay a large buy-in fee directly to Mark Zuckerberg so that he can make even larger sums of money off of you and your data. Let that settle in.”
brain wave scanners
Hope this Metaverse-nonsense dies. Thanks for the vid iFixit.
Planning on a Magic leap 2 teardown?
Hey, Nawaz here your new subscriber.
Knowledgeable and interesting videos
@ 2:45 does any one know what are these things attached to the battery? Thanks 😊
Where's the explosives?
For all the hate I throw at Meta.. this hardware is kinda impressive.
1500 and it looks so goofy and funny. Srsly what is wrong with faceboo.
"But the replaceability of that battery is also commendable"
Look how to replace the battery of the Rift S controllers. If removing screws and glue is commendable, you're about to have your mind blown :p
다시 조립못한다에 한표!!!
Amazing, you are so good. 5 Stars👍 Thank you very much for your hard work.
What is really interesting that this video does not mention is that the thumb-rest / button assembly is ALSO a touchpad! The trigger also has some sort of touchpad feature as it can track the position of your finger on the trigger. Slide your finger back and forth and you can see the avatar's thumb slide back and forth.
That made me nauseous. I opened a laptop the other day to swap the ram. Dell used aluminum screws and I hollowed out two of them trying to get them back in. I hate opening things.
Tony Stark will laugh at the craftsmanship of the insides of this overpriced plastic toy !! 🤦♂️
索尼说美国认真我们就不要认真！ 本来vr 是美国的一个计划！
bro give this guy a nice pay cause he spent like 2- 3 hours of taking off screws and another 4 or 2 hours of putting it back all together
Please do a Pico 4 teardown!
Yay even more cameras for Facebook to spy on people…
Would have been good to weigh it without the battery just to know. Love the Quest pro.. it's the dream VR HMD for PCVR I've been waiting for since I bought my Rift CV1 (actually – since my DK2). Stunning clarity and comfort.
BTW I imagined they didn't go with swappable battery to save weight – that would have needed more plastic/connectors/harder mounting at the back adding cost, weight and spoiling the sleek design too.
7:06 … So one could install Nintendo Switch Guilkit Halls Effect sticks????
This thing is ahead of time , it’s future proof other VR headsets are not , I’ll bet the updates just keep on coming soon
The "mystery circuitry" in the back really is 100% swelling detection. These flex thingies have nothing but wires and large exposed contact pads (pairs in 3 rows + separate center), AND right against them on the cover there is conductive "metal sandpaper", very obviously intended to short the contacts if they touch hard enough.
Won't test what happens when the pads are shorted, not on my unit, in case it electronically "bricks" the battery for good. I intend to keep using the device after iFixit lol.
P.S. This teardown viceo has been quite helpful so far.
To anyone intending to repair a Quest Pro: You DON'T need to unglue the front glass! The frame it is glued to is only held by 6 screws accessible from the lens side: 2 at the nose, 2 in the metal thingies on the very left/right of headset, and 2 a bit below these partially obscured by the rubber around lenses. There also is a latch right at the bottom of each of the 2 bigger camera "windows", they are kinda easy to miss and are latched well.