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iFixit Shares Apple Vision Pro Teardown
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You can’t be that naive can you?. Do a bit of research of e-waste and where all those FR4 PCBs end up being “recycled”. I haven’t seen anything about recycling their own components (specially PCBs and chips) in their environmental progress report. Or designing their products using metal core PCBs (only a bit more expensive when made in masse) that can be almost fully recycled, instead of FR4 that ends up as waste as the glass resin can’t be recycled. These companies just buy recycled material, and pay for other countries to “recycle” their trash. But yeah “mother nature” made Apple look so green.
There's a link to the lens supplier where you can put in your prescription and it will tell you if an insert is available. I have bad astigmatism in each eye and it tells me that the inserts are available.
Ever more reason to appreciate Apple's mission to create reliable, long-lasting devices.
Don't forget Apple's other efforts on recycling with their Daisy and Dave disassembly robots! And I'm sure we'll see Donna, Danny and Dilbert bots coming soon!
Electronics recycling is a fairly mature industry. Separately from Apple's "disassembly" robots that try to recover individual parts, non-separatable parts are melted down. When melted, metals and plastics have different "weights" and so they separate into "layers" in the melting process, and can be recovered in a fairly pure state. Is it perfect? No, but wayyyyy better than just burying it in the ground!
Still blows my mind to hear people tossing unwanted electronics in the garbage! Zero excuse for that!
It doesn't help when these videos (reviews and teardowns) keep injecting their own opinions in. People are suckers and are easily influenced by these opinions.
The Vision Pro is an incredible piece of engineering!
It's a version 1.0 device. Give it time, and there will be financing options. The price is not a "problem" of the device itself. Just look at the engineering that went into designing that thing! No wonder it costs so much! I just hope that the factory workers are being compensated well. They are the ones doing the hard work, for us to enjoy!
Exactly, and I don't like that they are trying to make it humorous. Just talk about the tech and the tear down.
You can simply connect the current battery with a USB-C to a second battery and then you can go for hours longer
They haven’t stopped ‘proper’ teardown. You can skip the video if you don’t like it, the usual teardown will follow.
The best available doesn’t mean it’s good enough. In fact I distinctly remember one of the reviews (WSJ or the verge maybe?) pointing out that even if it was generally better than other alternatives it wasn’t life like, colours well dull, motion blur and graininess in less bright environment were noticeable and in general it was better to be ‘out there’ than ‘in there’.
How dare people have opinions! They should just praise Apple like iJustine does.
A review by definition is an opinion. Should reviews not exist now, just in case somebody has something bad to say?
She used to do the teardown presentations on iFixIt videos, I guess you’ll find some of them if you search her name on YouTube. She was fun, cute, and the way she presented the videos was pretty cool. She once made a video dressed as BatGirl.
Sadly, she’s no longer there, she left several years ago.
Consider how the OG iMac looks now compared to the latest models. Now picture the AVP in 2040!
Just curious as to the life cycle duration of this expensive novelty from the new-in-box to the trash can.
I don't know about that. Take a look at a hybrid car/pickup truck today. Amazing sensors, video displays, equipment monitoring, a little display that says something about your battery charge, comprehensive efficiency monitor display, satellite/cellular connectivity, etc. etc.
If you include Apple accessories, then AirTags use a CR2032 from the drugstore.
I like the stepper motor. Very cool to focus but complex with that precision thread on the shaft. Maybe alternate like servos or an evolution from haptic engine in the future? - smaller size, less power req't, lower cost.
The well-known repair website iFixit today shared a written teardown and video teardown of the Apple Vision Pro, offering a look inside the mixed reality headset.
iFixit's disassembly of the Vision Pro reveals several internal components, including an array of cameras and sensors, fans, lens motors, and more. Unsurprisingly, it appears that opening and repairing the headset will be difficult.
"The EyeSight seems like a repair Achilles' heel—so many points of failure for a slightly creepy feature," said iFixit, in an email. "But we'll give Apple credit where it's due: the easily replaceable speakers and battery are big repairability wins."
Vision Pro is powered by an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU, a 10-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and 16GB of unified memory. Other specs include up to 1TB of storage, and an all-new R1 chip that "processes input from 12 cameras, five sensors, and six microphones to ensure that content feels like it is appearing right in front of the user's eyes."
The publication Wallpaper* had already shared an image of the Vision Pro's internals on Friday, as part of an exclusive Vision Pro design interview with Apple's vice president of software design Alan Dye and vice president of hardware design Richard Howarth.
Image Credit: Wallpaper*
Howarth said Apple designed the Vision Pro with "a lot of flexible materials and soft textures" like the Solo Knit Band so that people "would not only feel physically comfortable wearing it, but also enjoy wearing it around others too."
Vision Pro launched on Friday in the U.S., and Apple said the headset will be available in additional countries later this year.
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It's clear from this that these so-called Vision Pro goggles will quickly need a CR version to lower the price. You can see a significant markup is the complexity of the design so I expect a cheaper Vision Air model will quickly follow once they figure out how to reduce parts in the BOM. There's clearly more engineering to be done here.