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Less than a week since launch, Quest 3 has already gotten the full\u00a0iFixit<\/em> teardown treatment, showing off just how slim (and seemingly difficult to repair) the headset really is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

iFixit’s\u00a0<\/em>Shahram Mokhtari pried apart Quest 3, revealing the innards of\u00a0Meta’s new $500 mixed reality standalone. The short of it: it’s pretty complicated to dismantle and there aren’t any repair parts as such, getting a [4\/10] repairability score in Mokhtari’s video (linked below).<\/p>\n

Getting past the user-removable bits is simple enough. Take off the headstrap and pop out the facial interface, as anyone would do to install either aftermarket or first-party accessories. Removing the rubberized face plate, which isn’t meant to be user-removable, proved challenging though, as\u00a0Mokhtari snapped an internal clip with his plastic spudger, and by the looks of it, busted the top structural bridge of the face plate too.<\/p>\n

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That’s some pretty thin plastic\u2014forgivable enough since Meta likely designed the headset to make weight savings wherever possible. Still, something to watch out for.<\/p>\n

While it’s a much thinner package than Quest 2\u2014about 40% thinner when you don’t consider the facial interface\u2014the headset’s new slim design is largely owed to its inclusion of pancake lenses.\u00a0The inclusion of these new lenses,\u00a0which use polarization-based reflection to fold the optic path into a small space, doesn’t impede the teardown process any more than larger Fresnel lenses might.<\/p>\n

Here’s a 360 look at the headset under X-ray, courtesy Creative Electron, showing off just how tightly everything is sandwiched together:<\/p>\n

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Things aren’t glued down thankfully, although the headset does feature a ton of screws\u2014more than 50 by\u00a0Mokhtari’s reckoning, many of which you’ll need to contend with to get to the battery.<\/p>\n

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Quest 3’s battery is sandwiched between the display and mainboard; while keeping the battery close to the user’s center of gravity puts less strain on the neck, it requires you to dig deep into the headset’s guts. One big benefit: Quest 3’s battery is pretty normal, unlike Quest Pro’s unique curved, back-mounted battery.<\/p>\n

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Replacing the battery is technically possible, although there aren’t any official replacement parts. Getting there is apparently a bit more complicated than replacing a battery on a modern smartphone, although thankfully you won’t need heat guns or a host of dedicated tools to do so. Still, it appears to between the difficulty of\u00a0replacing the battery of Quest 2 (harder) and Quest Pro (easier).<\/p>\n

Mokhtari’s teardown delves into more of Quest 3’s pros and cons, such as the cost saving benefits of not<\/em>\u00a0including eye-tracking, and providing a cheaper IR-tracked Touch Plus controller over Quest Pro’s inside-out tracked Touch Pro controller. Another curiosity: Quest 3’s depth sensor fits into the blank spot where it would have otherwise gone in Quest Pro had they not scrapped the sensor right before production.<\/p>\n

Catch the full eight-minute video below, which critically isn’t\u00a0<\/em>a repair guide as such. We’re hoping to see that posted on iFixit<\/em>\u00a0fairly soon, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n